Adrian Beltre is retired, but another countdown to 3,000 is on. Only 100 more games for Rangers vice president of ballpark entertainment and P.A. voice Chuck Morgan to get to 3,000 consecutive MLB games worked. He reached 2,900 on Monday.

Morgan has been doing MLB P.A. work since 1983, almost exclusively with the Rangers, though he did spend 2002 in Kansas City. Along the way, Morgan has battled the flu and the recovery from emergency spinal fusion surgery to keep the streak going. It's impressive enough that it even caught the attention of baseball's Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr.. When Morgan interviewed Ripken at an event in Amarillo, Ripken turned interviewer and asked in front of the crowd: "Why do you keep working without missing a game?"

"I told him I cared about the fan experience at the game and that it's important to me and he said 'That's cool'," Morgan said. "When I got home, I thought about it. To have the guy who has come to represent what he does ask me that, it's one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me."

If all goes well, Morgan, 64, should reach game No. 3,000 in May or June of next season.