Bloomberg: Texas Rangers' Creditors, Still Unhappy With Terms of Sale to Greenberg and Ryan, Threaten Bankruptcy Filing

• @augie g, free agency happens in the offseason..but it will hinder our flexibility at the trade deadline...other than that I agree completely..

• Blow me phuck face...

• Hicks is presently pocketing 90M, the creditors are hung up over 30M. Give up part of the profits Mr. Hicks. You've made all of these beds...the deal with the Greenburg Group, the cash from Guido the credit man, so deal with it. Hicks shorted the MLB pension by 45M and other creditors by 30...sounds like he should be pocketing no more than 15M. I know that hardly feeds your 12 pounder, but you made all of these deals. Quit trying to lay off your bad deals onto everyone else, be a man and close this deal. This team needs to free up its ability to participate in free agency and you are f-ing that up.

• Everyone has an "eff this" date and time for things like this. Wonder what Greenberg's is? And wouldn't you like to strap a polygraph to LaMaster and ask her to rate the bullshit of that press relase from 1 to 10?

• The real thing people should be looking into is why it appears Hicks will keep land he received from the City of Arlington but isn't paying vendors who worked on his Glorypark project. Inquiring minds want to know more.

• that's wike 4 am start in eastcoast of country..dessspicable me say..and @defeat plaza: confucious say turn hate toward Hick-san and away from brightest glow of red shoed rangers..

• well defeat you might want to look at the time Robert wrote the blog vs. the time the rangers played their last game. And who the hell plays a major league baseball game at 11am anyways?

• Well, DP, they <em>were</em> in first place this morning.

• Uh, Robert- Check your own link to the "first place" Rangers. They're a half game behind the A's.

• Hicks is pissed that he has to join the community of credit card millionaires..He has lost his status as leader of the credit card billionaires..

• The sports reporter doesn't multi-task. He also doesn't work weekends like Robert.

• you would think the sports "reporter" would be the one posting this. Glad we have Robert Wilonsky to keep us informed

• Sounds like Tommy is playing chicken with Greenburg in the hopes he caves and ponies up the extra 30MM to satisfy the lenders...........I hope Greenburg sticks to his guns and Tommy has to pay up........

• eff Big Tommy Hicks...I hope by July his well manicured grounds, that use more gallons of water than anything else in Dallas...look like the beloved Ballpark last summer...when Tommy doesn't have money to pay the water bill and JF isn't it a bit different than you or I declaring Bankruptcy because of medical expenses? I mean sure I didn't need a 30,000 sf house when I only make 30 grand a year but the rates were so good I couldn't pass it up..what would all my fellow Dallassians of thought about me if I had of left that credit on the table and not got in way over my head?

• By definition, if the creditors were getting paid back in full, they wouldn't have the ability to veto a deal. Sounds like they should have asked for the parking lots as collateral, but they didn't. I don't fault Hicks for trying to hang on to what he can. I don't have sympathy for the wealthy when they gamble and lose big, but every single person would do the same thing in his situation. If you had to declare bankruptcy because of catastrophic medical expenses, you wouldn't just hand over your house because the creditors wanted it. So don't apply a double-standard just because he's got money.

• So LeMaster (for Hicks) says its between MLB, the lenders (creditors) and Greenburg, and Sullivan (for Greenburg) says its between HSG and the creditors? This means each party is saying it's up to the other. This isn't fertile ground for movement. This things in trouble, methinks.

• Don't confuse the poultry with facts Lee..sounds to me that Tommy Hicks is trying to keep a pretty good portion of the sale price instead of paying his creditors completely off. He's trying to make a deal with the creditors to beat them out of 30 plus million, when as far as I understand the sale price..it would cover his debt? I thinks Tommy Hicks is more concerned with beating creditors out of some cash to help with his water bills this summer..

• It's owned by Tom Hicks, Rooser. That's how.

• How on earth does a MLB team in a Top 5 market and the 4th lowest payroll go "bankrupt"? . Amazing.

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