Why not start your own site?

how the only time you show up and post anything is when someone is bashing Tom Hicks?

Liverpool — Just four months after concluding the sale of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers from Hicks Sports Group, netting the management firm a cool $400,000 after creditors took their piece, HSG announced the sale of its other major sporting entity, the Dallas Stars of the American National Hockey League. Hicks felt fortunate to turn a profit on this transaction: "Yes, we did spend all of our profit at Applebee’s celebrating, but I’m told we cleared a cool six [thousand US dollars] from the Stars sale."

Despite the blows state-side, Hicks has a renewed vigor for his English football side and is determined to maintain his 50% ownership and pass it along to his son and have it stay in his family for generations. Hicks also announced that he and co-owner George GIllett, in a show of solidarity, have extended manager Rafa Benitez’s contract a startling twelve years at a stunning new pay rate. Hicks said that after Benitez won the Europa League title in the spring, Liverpool’s seventh place finish in the Premier League didn’t look so bad, and the ownership team is certain that many more "major" titles are on the way.

Some Liverpool supporters are uncertain how the recent sale of star striker Fernando Torres to Real Madrid and the expenditure of that money on Benitez and bringing back Michael Owen would be a positive for the club. Hicks is sold on his manager’s maneuvering. "When we sold Alex Rodriguez for scraps back before the 2004 season, we went out and finished in a strong third place. And we pocketed most of that money! Add Michael, who I’m told actually played here some point, into our stellar strike force, and third place seems like the worst we can do. Who knows, I might unfortunately win another title."

“Liverpool are only carrying that debt burden, or at least £185m of it, because the two Americans, who arrived as purported saviours in February 2007, borrowed the money to take over, then loaded the club with the responsibility to repay it.”

Why is this considered standard operating procedure with all franchise purchases in America, but complete sacilidge across the pond? I understand a leeds situation and realize the radical debt thing, and also thatnot all clubs in debt are your valencias or liverpools but the concept of saddling our franchise with debt to cover checks his ass literally could cash is the same exact thing that is what’s holding back the sale of the rangers, and happened over a good long spell while media never batted an eyelash till it had to. Hell the fanbase still doesn’t care about the debt hicks saddled the club with or the fact that I’m sure new ownership is doing the same thing all over again or because it is so SOP in the states.

Anyway, it’s interesting to say the least, sorry on the iPhone if my post isn’t worded well.

Roll another one
Just like the other one.

Are you working on a fucking dissertation, or what?

Mr. Hicks also overspent on player salaries, signing slugger Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year, $252 million contract before the 2001 season that did little to improve the team

This makes me so crazy. There’s this perception that Alex Rodriguez was useless to the Rangers because they finished last. In 3 years with the Rangers, Rodriguez produced 22.7 WARP. in 2001, the Rangers fielded 10 players with WARPs of -0.5 or worse. in 2002, they fielded 7. In 2003, 13. The whole team over those three years had a WARP of 65.3 (42.6 w/o A-Rod).

If the Rangers could have found replacement level players instead of all the guys who were below replacement level, could have gained 11 wins in 2001 (transforming a 73-89 team to 84-78), 9 wins in 2002 (transforming a 72-90 team to a 81-81 team), and 13 games in 2003 (transforming a 71 win team into an 84 win team). But because of Alex Rodriguez, we couldn’t afford freely available talent.

Ryan’s version of the Purke situation has, in the past, been called into question on the grounds of his vested interest in that deal. What would Ryan have to gain here by misconstruing Hicks’ role in the Washington decision?

you think we should just accept tom hicks douchebaggery and not make comments on it? On a blog? That has comments enabled?

Or we should make our peace with Tom Hicks?

I think this only makes sense if you see Adam frothing at the mouth while typing – otherwise, I fail to see why expressing displeasure every time Tom Hicks talks is a bad thing, especially when warranted.

AJM hasn’t said much about the matter. Rather it be work related or just really doesn’t care.

Just because Jordana Brewster was in it.

I think that might’ve been the single worst piece of film-making I’ve ever seen.

Jordana was cute, which sort of made sitting through the entire thing worth it, but everything else about it was just painfully bad.

So bad I’m thinking I probably shouldn’t be admitting to watching it.

gigli….nuff said!

I win.

since they are paying the bills, and as long as Nolan Ryan bothers to consult him, which apparently he didn’t feel the need to do in this case.