Thank you, Tom Hicks
by Plano Fan on Aug 1, 2009 9:40 AM CDT
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More than likely, Tom Hicks will not be the majority owner of the Rangers this time next year.
It would have been human nature to sell out for one last big push at playoff success, one which would make 15 years of frustration more palatable while pushing the value of the franchise up to make his own financial situation easier.
Tom Hicks could have sold our future this week for this fall season. I am convinced that the Blue Jays or the Mariners would have gladly traded Halladay and/or Washburn for our prospects, Holland and Elvis (name your price). Halladay could have had enough money thrown at him to embarrass him into Arlington.
it could have been a successful fall that would have created a lot of concerns for the future. He could have driven the value of the franchise up and made more money when he sells.
He didn't do that. I tend to think he was a good steward of this franchise and I want to thank him for providing the leadership and staying with the plan.
There are assuredly other factors in this. I do not believe this was only a noble gesture. Still at the end, he made the right choice and we will reap the benefits of this week's decisions for years to come.
Thank you, Tom Hicks.
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"good steward of this franchise"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
by LSBUser on Aug 1, 2009 9:47 AM CDT reply actions
He definitely wasn't the best owner...
but there are a lot worse in MLB.
Yep
I think he tried to win, but was essentially inept at hiring management. With Melvin and Hart he burned quite a few years where he might have been competitive if he had a real GM.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
He stopped trying to win the moment he began shopping ARod.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Gardner, What you should do is tip your cap and then move forward with your tail tucked snugly in your gash."
He started trying to win
when he got JD and stopped trying to build through Free Agency.
"I saw a soldier try to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. I got him out of there quickly; not for his sake, but for ours. Fear is poison in combat...destructive, contagious." - Band of Brothers
by DJCahill on Aug 1, 2009 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
It was pretty lonely walking point after the 2004 season
telling everybody that the Ranger inactivity that year was a huge red flag going forward and that our organization was about to hit a serious shat storm.
Nobody would believe me then but I was unwavering and steadfast in that belief.
Nobody in here or over at NMLR can lean on the excuse that they were never told.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Gardner, What you should do is tip your cap and then move forward with your tail tucked snugly in your gash."
What planet are you from?
"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley
Accolades
Are what other people give you.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Aug 1, 2009 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions
he's gotten plenty of accolades from LSB
every time someone responds
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
wow...
…your mastery of giving yourself credit astounds me
"Success is a journey, not a destination"
- A fortune cookie
thank god the buffoon didn't screw this one up.
Or I’d of been up all last night chanting and sticking pins in my Tom Hicks doll. For once let’s see this thru and do it right. To give up all those A and B prospects for 1.5 years of Halladay is silly. First of all the timing is wrong and second of all what if he gets hurt next year? It could wind up being the Teixiera deal all over again except the Rangers would be the ones wiping egg off their faces instead of the Braves.
The I.Q. test has been abolished.
It is now the Gardner Scale.
Just an opinion
But I think the value of the Rangers is higher, loaded with minor league pitching and being solidly in contention in a much tougher than expected AL West, than it would be with one or two star quality pitchers, a kiluted youth program, and coming close but no cigar for the 2009 system. Maybe Hicks shares that thought.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Aug 1, 2009 12:22 PM CDT reply actions
Ed
Which pitcher gives the Yankees more value, CC or Phil Hughes?
Even Tom Hicks knows that answer.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Gardner, What you should do is tip your cap and then move forward with your tail tucked snugly in your gash."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
Right now or over time?
Don’t be confused. For that mater, Sabathia has a current 3.83 ERA and Hughes is at 3.47
http://mlb.com/stats/sortable_player_stats.jsp?c_id=nyy
No owner invests for present value only.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Aug 1, 2009 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions
The owner has to sign CC's paycheck...
so I think the answer is Phil Hughes.
You could buy any team and go spend the amount NY spent on CC and get a top of the line pitcher in the offseason, that doesn’t really add value. Value is in the underpaid young players that make teams profitable. That being said winning is the “great deoderant” and certainly increases value. But if I was looking to buy a team, I would much rather have a dirt cheap team stocked with near ready talent that I could supplement with a few high priced free agents, than a team made up of over-priced stars that I had to sign the paycheck for.
Where do you get "15 years of frustration?
He didn’t buy the team until … what, 1999? We were last in the playoffs that year. I think you meant 10 years of frustration … or 37 or so years.
not only that, but the title is incorrect also.
It should be Fuck not thank.
The I.Q. test has been abolished.
It is now the Gardner Scale.
+1
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
"Gardner, What you should do is tip your cap and then move forward with your tail tucked snugly in your gash."
"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"
why would we give up worth while prospects
for washburn?
Did Texas_Dawg get a new username?
J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM
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