Bud Selig

Major League Baseball's Screwball Economics

As another season begins, MLB faces an unsustainable future -- and you’re picking up the tab.

How Resource Center Dallas Played a Part In Getting MLB to Add Sexual Orientation to CBA

​Yesterday Major League Baseball sent word that it has a new labor agreement in place with the Major League Baseball Players Association -- this one, good for five years. It hasn't been signed yet; Tuesday's announcement, which follows, details the memorandum of understanding that will formally re ... More >>

Do the Rangers' New Owners Have the Money and Will to Build on a Winning Formula?

2010 World Series GAME 2 - Giants 9, Rangers 0: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​ 10. Is there anything more hopeless - more frustrating - in all of sports than watching a baseball reliever not be able to throw a $%#@^&* @&^%ing strike?! Right before our very eyes the World Series deteriorated into a Little League game where incompetent, intimidated pi ... More >>

MLB Commish Bud Selig Says Texas Rangers' New Ownership Is "Absolutely Perfect" For Franchise. Also: "It Was Time For a Change."

Photos by Sam MertenSay what? Bud Selig paid a visit to the Ballpark in Arlington today.​Citing the Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road," Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters this afternoon that he was "very restless" as the sale of the Texas Rangers was stalled by b ... More >>

It's Official (Finally!): Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan Now Own Your Texas Rangers

Sam Merten​In a few minutes I'll be hopping on a conference call with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, who, moments ago, received the unanimous okee-doke from Major League Baseball's owners to take control of Your Texas Rangers as long last. But till then, here's an excerpt from MLB's freshly shipp ... More >>

The Texas Rangers Thrive while Owner Tom Hicks' Sports Empire Crumbles.

Mark Cuban is MLB-Approved! And Other Notes From Today's Texas Rangers Hearing.

Hal SamplesTexas Rangers manager Ron Washington, GM Jon Daniels and their attorneys enter a Fort Worth courtroom this morning.​As promised, Sam just phoned in from outside the Fort Worth federal courthouse where, moments ago, Judge Michael Lynn sneak-peeked at where he's leaning concerning the pro ... More >>

This Morning, Questions About Whether Bud Selig's Balls Will Strike Out Rangers Sale

​What was it Tom Hicks said Tom Hicks said Saturday night? Ah, yes: The sale of Your Texas Rangers -- to Chuck Greenberg, Jim Crane, Mark Cuban or The Still-Living Ghost of Brad Corbett -- is a "complex proceeding." (What's wrong with the family-friendly "clusterfudge"?) But those needing some sum ... More >>

Your Texas Rangers, With Its Weird Winning Record Into July, Is Hardly The Baseball Team We Recognize.

It's Official: Bud Selig Hates Tom Hicks, Too

​While a federal trustee yesterday suggested that the Texas Rangers' own law firm should be ejected, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said - in so many words - what we've all been muttering for months: F*&^%$#$@ Tom Hicks! During a conference call with baseball reporters to ad ... More >>

Greenberg and Ryan Say Delaying Rangers Sale "Jeopardizes This Case and Risks Its Failure"

Rangers Baseball Express attorney Robert A. Simon​'Round this time yesterday, Judge Michael Lynn all but postponed the Texas Rangers' hopes of getting a sale done by the July 31 trade deadline by ordering most of the parties involved in the bankruptcy case into mediation on July 16. The one major ... More >>

From Tom Hicks to Jerry Jones to Mark Cuban, Owning a Sports Team Isn't as Easy as it Looks

At Last, Monarch Alternative Capital Breaks Its Silence Over Stalled-Out Texas Rangers Sale

Monarch's managing principal Andrew Herenstein​Still no word from Major League Baseball concerning its imminent seizure of Your Texas Rangers in order to expedite the sale to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan's Rangers Baseball Express. But, finally, there's been direct contact with Monarch Alternat ... More >>

Bud Selig Hasn't Moved on Rangers Sale, But He Does Get Award Named for Taylor Hooton

Don and Taylor Hooton​Well, just because I keep Major League Baseball's press-release page up-and-at-'em at all times, and I just noticed this: MLB commish Bud Selig was just presented the first-ever Taylor's Award -- so named for Plano West Senior High School baseball star Taylor Hooton, whose su ... More >>

Listen Up, Texans Rangers Fans: This Right Here Is How You Get Shi ... Um, Stuff Done

See, Rangers fans, we shoulda taken out billboards along I-30.​It's very possible, if not downright likely, that at any second now word will come down that Major League Baseball has seized ownership of the Texas Rangers in order to wrap up the sale of the team to Chuck Greenberg -- after which tim ... More >>

Reports: MLB Will Seize Rangers and Nullify Creditors' Loans, Which Means ... Bankruptcy

To be honest, I really thought we'd be done with this picture by now. Apparently not.​On the field, they're Your Texas Rangers -- back atop the American League West, fresh off the first four-game series sweep since '07 and headed into an early season showdown with one-game-behind-'em Oakland, ridi ... More >>

Major League Baseball to Tom Hicks: Do Not Eff Up Rangers Deal ... or Else

MLB commish Bud Selig​Before I left the office last night, I tried to get a comment from Major League Baseball concerning Tom Hicks's admission that the deal with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan's Rangers Baseball Express is falling apart. Earlier in the day, when I'd gotten wind that this seemingl ... More >>

How Hicks is Trying to Foul Up Rangers' Sale and Why MLB Won't Let Him

​Yesterday, Tom Hicks all but told reporters gathered in Boston that the pending sale of the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan's Rangers Baseball Express is dead. But why, the very week Greenberg had hoped to have the deal done, did Hicks choose to say it now? That's the $570-million ... More >>

Would-Be Owner Chuck Greenberg has the Money and Moxie to Lead the Texas Rangers Back to Relevancy and into the Playoffs

U.K. Reports: Hicks Rejecting Offer for Liverpool, Bank Threatens to Repo Club

George Gillett and Tom Hicks​Word out of the U.K. has Tom Hicks refusing Rhone Group's offer of a £100 million for a majority piece of Liverpool FC, the exact amount he and George Gillett owe the Royal Bank of Scotland come July. I've asked Hicks's local spokesperson, Lisa LeMaster, wot the wot, ... More >>

Despite Foul Balls, Greenberg Says Texas Rangers Acquisition is "Right on Schedule"

​Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported in a subscription-only story that last fall, Your Texas Rangers violated baseball's collective-bargaining agreement by failing to pay $39.55 million into a deferred compensation fund. That happened  sometime before October, and, according to Ma ... More >>

A Poignant Farewell to Bobby Bragan

Bobby Bragan, during his brief tenure as Pittsburgh Pirates manager in the mid-1950s​Anyone who loves baseball 'round these parts knows the name Bobby Bragan -- his association with the Fort Worth Cats alone (in the late '40s and early '50s, then again in '05) was enough to make him legend, not to ... More >>

'Roid Rage: Mark McGwire - Yawn - Apologizes to Baseball

​I guess the question at this point is, do you give a crap? About baseball players and their steroid use? During the 1998 Major League Baseball season I went to Houston a couple times as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to cover the magical home-run chase between the St. ... More >>

Snow Balls: Not Surprised Dennis Gilbert Leads Pack of Potential Rangers Owners

Dennis Gilbert​Dennis Gilbert's emergence as the "surprise favorite" to shag Your Texas Rangers, as Sports Illustrated puts it this morning, is no surprise to the Friends of Unfair Park who took a break from Thanksgiving break and stopped by Friday. Former New York Times baseball writer Murray Cha ... More >>

Cibus: Alberto Lombardi’s Newest Restaurant Follows a Comfortable, Well-worn Path

Star on Ice, or: Trying to Put Sean Avery's Suspension in Context

Below, as you can see, we've added the video containing the, um, sloppy remarks for which Dallas Star Sean Avery received his indefinite suspension last night from National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman. Meanwhile, back in New York, Newsday's Arthur Staples is among those calling out the c ... More >>

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