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The Rangers dusted the pesky Detroit Tigers, 15-5, in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series and take benifit to the World Series for the second straight year.

Texas rangers does not actually put them in the dynasty category, but consider this:  Texas Rangers are the first team in a decade to win back-to back American League pennants.

And if Texas Rangers does not capture the attention of the Yankees and Red Sox, it should.

"I think it's very hard to repeat,'' said club president Nolan Ryan, "and when you see at our ballclub, with the young talent we have to maintain that we have . . . Are we genius? I don't know. But I'll say this: I think we're as good a ballclub as there is.''

Over the last some seasons, the Rangers are performing effectively and efficiently organization. General manager Jon Daniels has emerged as one of the game's top executives and a stabilized ownership group has provided him with the necessary resources.

The Rangers aren't about to spend dollar-for-dollar with the Red Sox and Yankees, with a 2011 payroll of $92 million, enough for 13th among the 30 MLB clubs. But remember: They were willing  to hand out more than $100 million to retain Cliff Lee last winter. There is room to gain more payroll, too. The Rangers' new local TV deal, worth nearly $3 billion, doesn't even kick in until 2015. That might not match the revenues earned by the Yankees' YES Network or the Red Sox' NESN, but it will do.

It may not even be good for the Rangers to be players for the super-elite free agents such as Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder, but as the Red Sox and Yankees know all too well, that could be a dangerous neighborhood in which to work. The Rangers learned that first-hand with their $252 million contract for Alex Rodriguez.).
 But the real foundation of the team came in a huge deal by Daniels in 2007 in which the Rangers traded Mark Teixeira to the Atlanta Braves and got shortstop Elvis Andrus, starter Matt Harrison, closer Neftali Feliz and catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia in exchange.
  The Texas farm system is well-regarded and was in the top half of all organizations last May by Baseball American, an achievement considering how many players the system has graduated in recent seasons, plus the four players they had to sacrifice to get Lee from Seattle in the middle of 2010.
 The Rangers are in it for the long haul. The Rangers have to won as many pennants as the Yankees and Red Sox combined in the last six seasons. The top Two now have company.
 The Rangers are not feeling their work is done. Reminded that his team had just become the first team to back-to-back A.L. pennants since the Yankees of 1998-2001, Daniels kept his. position     "I think the other teams that did it won the World Series,'' he said, ''so I think we've still got a pretty big step ahead of us before we can put ourselves in that group.''
 It's even more incredible when you consider that, until the Rangers beat Tampa Bay in the Division Series a year ago October, they had won exactly one (1) postseason game in their history and had never won a playoff series. Now, they've won four of their last five.
 Throw in the fact that the Rangers were literally auctioned to the highest bidder in the summer of 2010 and their journey is all the more remarkable.
 Now, the Rangers are winner for the World Series again. And just in case the Red Sox and Yankees have been preoccupied surveying their own damage, they're not going anyway anytime soon.