MLB has extended the Rangers a line of credit and, though, nothing is official, my gut tells me the league is more involved than anybody is acknowledging publicly.
I think MLB is trying to allow Tom Hicks to conduct the sale and bow out gracefully. I do not sense much support for him to remain as owner. If the deal gets bogged down again, maybe MLB will make a more forceful stand.
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So now we won't have to trade Millwood to sign craptastic players like Dye?
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
Welcome to another edition of "As the Rangers Turn"
In todays episode…
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
by boomer1 on Nov 30, 2009 8:52 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Be GONE Tom Hicks
I put a hex on you!
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
based on another story by TR
we are interested in Dye, Octavio Dotel, and Darren Oliver - ALL type A’s. wtf, why would you give up a 1st round pick for these guys. Of course, none of them may be offered arbitration which would be fine, but if you are going to go after a decent reliever, how about Calero or someone like that who wouldn’t cost you a pick either way. damn this would be stupid.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
"based on another story by TR"
That should be your first clue…
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
If they aren't offered arbitration why would it matter?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
you wouldn't lose your pick
if the previous team doesn’t offer arbitration.
I think the type A and B status is a little screwy sometimes. When a guy like Duchscherer is out all of ’09 and is still a type B, that is a little messed up.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
His point is...
…if they aren’t offered arbitration, then why would it matter if the Rangers signed them or not?
None of those three guys will be offered arbitration.
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 30, 2009 9:34 PM CST up reply actions
it is possible Darren Oliver is offered arb
not the other two
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
And if he is then I would suspect his name would immediately go away from our interests list
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Actually
The story says the Rangers could be interested in those guys. Not that they are.
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 30, 2009 9:30 PM CST up reply actions
yes, but when specific players are mentioned
usually it comes from somewhere, otherwise you might as well leave them unnamed if you don’t have a source. TR can just mention the Rangers are interested in relievers etc. The only other reason I could see, is a possible agent pushing these names. If not, just draw a few names from a hat and call it a day.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Daniels seems like he's learned his lesson in that regard though...
… other than a few crapshoots he hasn’t signed many slightly above average players that cost draft picks lately. As odd as it may sound to some, I’m starting to have faith in the Rangers front office that they’ll do the right thing.
Nothing to see here. Stuff we already knew
Move along
by oc on Nov 30, 2009 9:23 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Line of credit
I wish I had a $15 mill line of credit…
Just buy the team for $520 mill Chuck, and put a bunch of that mula into the Rangers, get chuch morgan his big new scoreboard, and put in some grass that grows!
TCU AD/PR Student: I Need A Job
by FormerLSBUser on Nov 30, 2009 9:46 PM CST reply actions
OT
I got the Blackberry Tour 9360 from Sprint today…
I had been using the 8800, which in my opinion had been the best BB to date… I had T Mobile though, and I couldnt stand their service… It was awful.
TCU AD/PR Student: I Need A Job
by FormerLSBUser on Nov 30, 2009 9:51 PM CST reply actions
What Im looking for is some thoughts on Sprint and the Tour from current users...
TCU AD/PR Student: I Need A Job
by FormerLSBUser on Nov 30, 2009 9:51 PM CST up reply actions
congratulations?
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Nov 30, 2009 9:56 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Can you imagine cell phones 10 years from now?
Pretty sure you’ll be able to do video teleconferencing by then
I'm expecting holograms.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Nov 30, 2009 10:06 PM CST up reply actions
instead of texting, you'll be able to record a voice message, and send it.
it’ll be like having a phone call, just with a lot of breaks in the action
I'm expecting the Phones to actually be headsets 10 years from now.
Like those bluetooth headsets we’ve got nowadays? 10 years from now those will be the actual phones, and you’ll be able to verbally tell it what to do and stuff.
If you do have a phone/palmpilot type thing it’ll have comprehensive internet access and you’ll be able to comment on LSB by dictating what you want to write into your phone.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
No matter, they'll have things you can put on your throat, enabling you to talk by mouthing the words by then
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
Why not holograms, they had them in Star Wars and that was made in '77
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Nov 30, 2009 10:23 PM CST up reply actions
Flying cars are supposed to drop sometime between now and 2015, as dictated by Back To The Future II
Same goes for self-drying jackets, self-tying shoes… and supposedly the American League is going to expand and put ANOTHER team in Miami (with some kind of gator as their mascot), and they are supposed to topple the Cubs in the World Series of that very year
fuzzy dice in your flying car?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Nov 30, 2009 10:39 PM CST up reply actions
I think it's clear
That this was the future with Doc in the timeline in 1985. He was the genius who was supposed to invent all of this amazing stuff but since he stayed in 1885 none of it happened.
Instead we are stuck with the Florida Marlins.
you guys would not believe how crazy the phones that are not years but months out are...
I have a friend in R&D for nokia….
JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook
Sprint's service is just as bad as TMobile imo
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
yep and Sprints customer service is the absolute worst
I’ve had Sprint and Tmobile. They both sucked royally. I’ve been pleased with my switch to cingular which is now AT&T.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
I concur with this.
We were with Sprint forever. Any time there was an issue, their customer service people seemed hell bent on making it worse. AT&T is much easier to deal with and has much better service.
Hopefully things have changed
Seems like you guys had Sprint back before they aquired Nextel and several small carriers on both the Eastern and Western seaboard. After this, there service capacity shot up, right behind Verizon’s in terms of total coverage… Plus, with Blackberrys they make any network better. So far, its been awesome. Browsing speeds are incredibly fast on Sprint, but that maybe because im in DFW and they just deployed their 4G network here…
TCU AD/PR Student: I Need A Job
by FormerLSBUser on Dec 1, 2009 11:37 AM CST up reply actions
AT&T can be a kick in the nuts too
I think they all suck
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Dec 1, 2009 12:35 PM CST up reply actions
Just force roam on Verizon.
That way you get the Verizon network for Sprint prices.
"You'll meet them again on their long journey to the middle." -Lester Bangs
I think it is pretty clear that NO is the best team in the NFL right now...
this game is a blowout…
Go Rice Owls!
Hard to argue that, they seem to score at will.
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Nov 30, 2009 10:40 PM CST up reply actions
I'd love to see Nawlins / Minnesota in the NFC Championship game.
Can’t argue with you about the Saints but Minnesota can play with anybody right now.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Business as usual." - Tom Hicks on the Ranger off-season 11/19/09
by Josey Wales on Nov 30, 2009 10:56 PM CST up reply actions
Man...
As a Louisiana boy myself, and with all three of my very best friends from Minnesota, I would have myself quite a time if that were the NFC tussle.
If the Cowboys don’t make a run, I’d love to see that match-up.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 30, 2009 11:11 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
The Cowboys
are probably the 3rd best team in the NFC but are a long freaking way from the Saints & Vikings.
I’m thinking the Chargers may be the best team in the AFC but they have Norv and that’s a problem.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Business as usual." - Tom Hicks on the Ranger off-season 11/19/09
by Josey Wales on Nov 30, 2009 11:17 PM CST up reply actions
the Chargers? really?
you don’t think the 11-0 Colts are better?
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Yes, Indy is 11-0 but they've had quite a few
Houdini games. They should have lost to New England and Houston twice. Really dominant teams don’t dig that many holes for themselves.
After scuffling early, the Chargers are thrashing most of the teams they play plus I thought they matched up very well v the Colts in last year’s playoff game.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Business as usual." - Tom Hicks on the Ranger off-season 11/19/09
When will Selig just send his goons...
to murder Tom Hicks and end our misery already?
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 30, 2009 10:52 PM CST via mobile reply actions
It's very trendy now to kick Hicks in the nuts
but most of the Ranger Nation thought I was full of shit when I came out so strongly against him after the 2004 season (when he did nothing that off-season to fix the team).
You can never say you weren’t told, isn’t that right bking?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Business as usual." - Tom Hicks on the Ranger off-season 11/19/09
by Josey Wales on Nov 30, 2009 10:58 PM CST up reply actions
Where've you been?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Nov 30, 2009 11:02 PM CST up reply actions
Went out of town, twice.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
"Business as usual." - Tom Hicks on the Ranger off-season 11/19/09
by Josey Wales on Nov 30, 2009 11:07 PM CST up reply actions
Josey Wales...
hatin’ Hicks before it was cool.
I will also never love Joy Division as much as you love Joy Division because you were actually able to make coherent, rational adult thoughts like how much you loved Joy Division back when they were merely Warsaw and I was merely an infant.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 30, 2009 11:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Bullshit.
You’ve repeatedly said J.D. was the one that shit the bed after the 2004 season. I haven’t been a member of LSB as long as a lot of people here, but I’m sure of that. I’ve never really seen you say shit about Hicks until recently, just a bunch of harping on that stupid sonofabitch Jonny Donuts. Not that I disagree with you about Hicks though, I’ve hated hated him since before ’04 and have really never liked him.
Jimmy Johnson for GM.
In defense of Josey...
…he’s been crapping on Tom Hicks since at least the ‘03-’04 offseason.
by Adam J. Morris on Dec 1, 2009 8:07 PM CST up reply actions
After I posted and thought about it for a minute
I figured I was probably wrong to call him out and that he probably had been. As much as he harps on J.D. I don’t see how he couldn’t have done some serious Hicks slamming at some point. Like I said, I haven’t been around here that long so I haven’t really seen anything but all the J.D. stuff.
Jimmy Johnson for GM.
If Hicks actually has the option to turn down offers, he'll do it
I’m concerned that some of the buyers would get frustrated and walk.
OT- Cop killer cornered?
CNN is reporting the Swat team in Seattle have surrounded a house they believe the Cop Killer is hiding out in.
by TooLegitToQuit on Dec 1, 2009 1:04 AM CST via mobile reply actions
it looks like it was just family members who've helped him out..
If one of your relatives ever kills 4 cops it’s probably wise to not help them in any way or harbor them. DUMB seems to run in the family.
So that's how Michael Phelps can eat 10,000 calories a day!
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