baseballmusings.com - 12/4/2009
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Via Baseball Time in Arlington , the latest in the soap opera that is the sale of the Texas Rangers . The Tom Hicks/Dennis Gilbert partnering fell apart, which means Nolan Ryan will stay with the team. It also looks very unlikely that Tom Hicks will sell the team back to himself. That’s ...
Dennis Gilbert to Purchase the Texas Rangers??
dallassportsfans.com 12/2/2009 — Sports illustrated is reporting on SI.com that Ex Agent Dennis Gilbert and his ownership group have emerged as the front runner to purchase the Texas Rangers. Like I have said before, this is great as long as Tom Hicks is out and Nolan Ryan is retained by the new owners.
The deal is not ...
Sale of the Texas Rangers Could Come As Early As Next Week
bizofbaseball.com 12/4/2009 — Tom Hicks has been given a Dec. 15 deadline to accept a winning big for the sale of the Texas Rangers, but that decision could be announced as early as next week’s winter meetings with two final bidders in play.
Jon Heyman of SI.com did a lengthy piece on Weds. that paints former superagent ...
Rangers' sale unlikely to affect offseason
mlb.mlb.com 12/17/2009 — By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com 12/16/09 2:20 PM EST ARLINGTON -- Negotiations between Rangers owner Tom Hicks and the group led by Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan to finalize purchase of the franchise are likely to begin almost immediately. But the ...
Is Nolan Ryan Walking Out That Door A Winner?
walkoffwalk.com 12/9/2009 —
That headline applies only if Nolan Ryan walks out that door at all. For those of you who don't have your fingers on the BBQ stained pulse of Arlington Baseball, there's a touch of drama revolving around a potential new Rangers' ownership group ...
Texas Rangers to be purchased by Exxon Mobil?
dallassportsfans.com 11/30/2009 — This is just a rumor, and I was unable to find out whether there is any validity to this. The same comment was left on a post over at the Rangers Blog on Dallas News. Although if this were true, I would certainly be happy, The Rangers would still be run by Nolan Ryan and Tom Hicks would be ...
Ryan’s Hicks-Up
baseballmusings.com 12/9/2009 — Nolan Ryan gives Tom Hicks a chance to stay with the Texas Rangers :
In announcing publicly his partnership with Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg and in offering Hicks an opportunity to stay involved with the ownership group as a minority partner, Ryan grooved a pitch to Hicks. ...
The Rangers half-decade of profitability
lonestarball.com 11/30/2009 — Something to keep in mind, as we talk about the Rangers , the ownership situation, and what payroll should be, versus what it is and has been...
Coming into the 2009 season, the Rangers had a sustained run of significant positive results in terms ...
The Rangers Payroll Dichotomy
bbtia.com 11/27/2009 — Texas Rangers team president Nolan Ryan reassuring a rightly skeptical audience during the ballclub's season-ending press conference on Tuesday, October 6th: "I feel our budget will be close to, if not the same as, what it was last year [$68 ...
Rangers acquire Inglett off waivers —
FOXSports.com News for MLB 12/4/2009
The Texas Rangers have acquired infielder Joe Inglett on a waiver claim from Toronto, bringing in a utility player after Omar Vizquel's departure.
Inglett has a .293 career average in 211 games for Cleveland (2006) and Toronto (2007-09). He has made ...