Ownership Thoughts

by kevzta on Dec 12, 2009 7:22 PM CST

So forgive me if i lace this post with grammatical errors or stupid thoughts, this past week has been mentally draining (final exam week). However, I just had some thoughts about the Ownership situation that I would like to hear some feedback on.

Does the aspect of getting a new owner excite you or strike fear into you about the future? The aspect of losing Nolan and/or JD with a different ownership group scares the crap out of me. Do you guys have a favorite for the ownership group/ a group that you definitely do not want to see buying the team?

Basically we have team Gilbert (with a potential replacement GM in Kevin Towers - aka a situation that makes me queasy), team Greenberg (if I had a "favorite" replacement owner it would be him), and team Crane (who I have the least knowledge about).

http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/12/nolan-ryan-acknowledges-partnership-with.html

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091211&content_id=7799420&vkey=news_tex&fext=.jsp&c_id=tex&partnerId=rss_tex

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is an oxymoron. At least as far as Hicks is concerned.

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by RangerMad on Dec 12, 2009 7:30 PM CST reply actions

hahahaha true that

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by kevzta on Dec 12, 2009 8:07 PM CST up reply actions

Depends on who the owner is

If it’s Greenberg, I’ll be excited. If it’s Gilbert, I’ll be a bit apprehensive. I don’t really know much about Crane, as nobody ever payed hardly any attention to him till recently.

I definitely want to see JD stick around and finish what he started – Nolan I could give a shit about from the baseball standpoint, but the Rangers can’t really afford to lose him from a PR standpoint right now. Both need to stay, which is why I’m apprehensive about Gilbert and would definitely prefer Greenberg get the team.

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by LSJ on Dec 12, 2009 7:44 PM CST reply actions

is there any info about either gilbert's, greenberg's or crane's wallet size?

are any of them likely to be spend happy owners? or penny pinchers for that matter

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by kevzta on Dec 12, 2009 8:09 PM CST up reply actions

I imagine they will all work within the means

There aren’t many people who can throw money into a team and take the financial losses associated with it. But as long as they don’t take the profits that are made and have to use those to pay other debts, like Hicks has the last few years, they can maintain a solid payroll and hopefully with a good team can increase revenues enough to increase payroll as needed.

Right now we probably should have around a 80 million dollar payroll. Over the next few years as our young guys accrue service time and hit arbitration that should naturally expand to the 100-110 million dollar range

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by bigsteve on Dec 12, 2009 8:17 PM CST up reply actions

crane is the richest

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by Jayslick on Dec 13, 2009 10:56 PM CST up reply actions

Well here is the negaive thoughts

Crane- Wont get approved, is “un-ethical”

Gilbert- As per latest reports, doesnt even have his funds in order and thus his financing is not in place to buy the team… We havent heard any thoughts to the contrary…

Chuck- I would make a hypothesis that Chuck is one of the lower bidders, as he hasn’t jumped to the front of the line in terms of bidders, even though it has been confirmed that his group involves primarily local investors, which is different than the other two, and that he has Ryan as an investor and will keep him as President of the organization, thus implying that the rest of the front office will stay intact.

I think if he had a high bid, or the highest, then it would be a no brain-er… He has even offered to let Hicks be a part of his investor package, which is a goal for Hicks.

So, Chuck must only be offering something in the nature of $500-510 mill, where I bet Gilbert is boasting the highest supposed total, even though his investors aren’t all in line.

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by FormerLSBUser on Dec 12, 2009 8:26 PM CST reply actions

The current ownership is unacceptable

and if change means that the Nolan or JD exits are a part of the collateral damage, so be it.

We are currently one biggest jokes in MLB and Tom Hicks is the main reason.

I might be pulling for Crane. He’s the one with most money and I read that a “MLB source” said this is going to be a “bottom line deal” (highest bid wins).

Not sure where or if Nolan & JD fit into a Crane ownership.

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by Josey Wales on Dec 13, 2009 12:32 PM CST up reply actions