Baseball Season

Here's how to get discounts and free bobbleheads from the Texas Rangers

Fans of Andre Beltre (here, pictured right) can get him in a Bobblehead version.

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Bobblehead collectors, start your engines: The Texas Rangers have finalized their 2017 promotion and ticket schedule, and opportunities lie ahead. The season also includes a pre-game ceremony on August 12, prior to the Rangers-Astros game, to retire the uniform number 7 of former player Pudge Rodriguez, a new member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tickets
Individual tickets for all 2017 games at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, except the home opener on April 3, will go on sale on March 3 at 9 am. You can get them at the Globe Life Park in Arlington First Base Box Office, at texasrangers.com, or by phone at 972.RANGERS.

For the fourth year, "dynamic" ticket pricing will be utilized in all individual seating categories for all games. In partnership with Qcue, a software company, the Rangers will set and adjust ticket prices higher or lower for each game in real-time, based on market demand and factors such as pitching matchups, team performance, opponent, weather, and day of week. Dynamic ticket pricing will apply for all tickets except children’s tickets in the Upper Reserved category.

The home opener at Globe Life Park in Arlington is on April 3, against the Cleveland Indians, with a start time of 6:05 pm, and there is only one way to purchase single-game tickets. You must be willing to sign up for the Texas Rangers email list, then you'll be entered into a pool of randomly selected registrants who get access to buy tickets online, based on inventory. A limited number of reserved seats, obstructed view seating, and standing room only tickets will be available. Deadline to sign up at texasrangers.com/OpeningDay is March 6 at 5 pm.

There is one other way to guarantee tickets for the home opener: purchase a full season and partial season ticket plan. For more information, go to texasrangers.com.

2017 Texas Rangers promotions
Finally, we get to the Bobblehead giveaways.

April 29: Medical City Healthcare Adrian Beltre Dancing Legs Bobble
May 15: Dr Pepper/Tom Thumb Elvis Andrus/Rougned Odor High Five Bobblehead (Series 1)
June 3: Cole Hamels Super Hero Bobblehead
July 29: Dr Pepper/Albertsons Elvis Andrus/Rougned Odor High Five Bobblehead (Series 2)
August 12: PowerAde Pudge Rodriguez Baseball HOF Bobblehead
September 2: Globe Life Insurance Master Lucroy Star Wars Bobblehead (first 15,000 fans for all bobbleheads except first 10,000 fans for Hamels bobblehead)

There'll be four post-game concerts. On Memorial Day weekend, the Toadies will perform on May 29, and Lecrae will perform on May 30. Aaron Watson will perform on August 19, and David Crowder will perform on August 20.

There will also be items for the kids, including a hooded towel on June 20, backpacks on June 17 and August 20, a McDonald's Adrian Beltre figurine on August 19, and collector pins on all seven home games.

Don't forget the dogs. May 13 is Bark on the Park, when fans can bring their dogs to the ballpark. Advanced registration is required and will be available in late March at BarkAtThePark.

Ticket discounts
Fans can get discounts on tickets and food with Dr Pepper cans, Coca-Cola family packs, or by using codes from Fox Sports or Ozarka. For details and a full list of updated ticket discounts during the season, go to texasrangers.com/specials.

The Globe Life Park in Arlington ticket office is open weekdays from 9 am-5 pm and Saturdays from 10 am-4 pm.

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Movie Review

Podcaster lets creepy noises get under her skin in Undertone

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Nina Kiri in Undertone.

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on jump scares and other tropes to deliver their terror. So when a film like the new Undertone tries something different, it should be applauded for the effort, even if it’s not as successful in its execution.

Evy (Nina Kiri) is a podcaster who co-hosts a show called Undertone, which focuses on paranormal videos and sounds they find on the internet. Her co-host, Justin (Adam DiMarco), lives in London, so - for kind of contrived reasons - in order to make the time difference between them work, Evy records at around 3 am her time. Evy - who lives at home with her bedridden, dying mother - is the skeptic of the two, consistently debunking clips that Justin presents to her.

Her doubts are tested when Justin brings in a series of 10 audio clips that purport to be about a boyfriend recording his girlfriend as she talks in her sleep. The audio begins in a lighthearted manner and quickly turns creepy and then sinister as unexplained things start happening. Evy senses that what she’s hearing is bleeding into her own world, especially when inexplicable actions take place in her mother’s bedroom.

Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Ian Tuason, the film is effective early on when it introduces the story concept. Making great use of sound design, Tuason essentially puts the audience inside Evy’s head, where every little sound is heightened. Setting the podcast sessions in the middle of the night ups the anxiety level for both her and the audience.

However, as the film goes along it gets a little tedious watching Evy listen to the audio, even as Tuason attempts to keep the film dynamic by moving the camera around her. The premise of the story - progressively going through 10 clips - and Tuason’s framing of shots that focus as much on the background as they do on Evy seem to promise more interesting results than actually transpire.

What ultimately holds the film down more than anything is its lack of different viewpoints. The only other person who’s actually seen is Evy’s mother, who is unable to speak. Evy speaks to Justin, another friend, and a doctor over the course of the story, and while each broadens our understanding of Evy somewhat, none of them make her a truly three-dimensional person. Getting a little more information about her history might have helped the story work better.

Kiri does her level best to vary her acting in the various podcast scenes, and even when they start to get repetitive, she remains compelling and watchable. It’s difficult to judge the other actors based on audio alone, but knowing that DiMarco also starred in season 2 of The White Lotus helps to visualize him and his acting style.

Undertone does well in creating a spine-chilling mood, but it needed something beyond that to become a truly great horror movie. Tuason shows some promise as a filmmaker, especially in the way he uses the camera to create tension, but a more complete story will serve him better the next time around.

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Undertone is now playing in theaters,

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