Your Texas Rangers: The Rumors and the Waaayaaaiting is the Hardest Part

By Richie Whitt Tue., Apr. 20 2010 at 11:00 AM

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Four-game losing streak. Bats are dead. Fielding is iffy. Texas Rangers are 5-7 and in Boston for a series starting tonight.

Brace yourselves, it could get worse.

Today is April 20, better known as "the week of April 19th", better known as the week the sale of the Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks to Chuck Greenberg was supposed to be finalized.

A deal ain't done until it's done and ...

It's not strong enough to scream under a "breaking news" banner. I'm just hearing, let's say, a couple rumblings that Hicks' creditors still aren't satisfied with the deal and that an increasingly impatient Major League Baseball could temporarily take ownership of the team in the very near future. Could, I said.

Everyone involved is still convinced the sale will happen. Just later than sooner.

Love me some Greenberg. Pulling for the Rangers.

Let's hope this thing slides home safely.

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to top it off, why was the asshat hicks at the game last night in Boston, sitting right by the dugout. That dude needs to stay away, you know, like go work on the deal to give the creditors their money.
shhh, you can't talk about the gov that way or RW will start bawling his eyes out. Those little red-shoed Strangers are doomed for the forseeable future, just like everything else Hicks touches.
Hicks is typical of these coporate fuedal lords that only have their own interests at heart. He'll drag this out as long as he can for his own benefit and screw everyone else in the process. He already had a major negative impact on the Stars season and it's obvious the Ranger's will follow suit unless Bud actually grows a pair. But I suppose that would make MLB a socialist dictatorship jus' like the guvment.
RW is copying Rhyner's twitter from yesterday at 6:30is...that said the deal is doomed...Kergo leave little E alone, he now has leadoof hitter duties as well as catching the beisbol duties..I said dutie three times..
@Kergo I agree with all of that except I still want Vlad at DH instead of Lowell. I want no part of Mike Lowell whatsoever!!
yes, the Astros may well be the worst team in baseball, but, atleast it's a major league team.
this ass head Hick's and his fuckhead creditors are screwing this team and sale up. get on with it and give us our greenburg. Ive heard the day the sale goes through beer and concession prices will be coming down. Hicks is draining every last penny out of this team and its fans, and I am done going to the park until this sale is done.
@kergo...have you seen the Astros lately?
this is how you fix this: -get rid of Hicks -fire JD -fire Warsh and Hire Uncle Clint -Put Smoak Monster at 1rst -make Kinsler play and drop him down to six where he belongs -Sit tiny e down and tellhim he's not a star yet to keep his eye on the ball at short -pick up lowell to be the DH -make Pie Traynor the catcher and outright release those other two useless bastards. -throw Hardens arm in the Trinity
Oh f#ck, this is torture! Please dear lord not another day under the hicks regime. Not one more freaking day!!!! UGGGHHH. Even MLB and the bumbling Bud Selig show would be better running this show. It's a simple plea: I just want to watch major league baseball. Shit, we are in the 4th largest media market in the country and we have a AAA ballclub. Gen X Davey Lane said "you could use some baseball" and he's right. Heck, I'll even drop the "move the stadium to Dallas" plea. I'm moving to Houston if this cavalcade of shit doesn't get better soon.....and Houston's a nasty dump, it stinks, and the team sucks. Oh yeah, and the woman are big, thick and could start at center for any NFL team. Any city that could just blow up is not a great place to live, but, I need baseball.