After tonight’s EXTREMELY frustrating effort, my heart has been somewhat warmed by this letter to the editor of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram:
I want my brick back
Way back when the Rangers’ ballpark was built, there was a public campaign requesting donations for bricks near the entrance to the stadium. I was a willing donor, and my donated bricks were inscribed with names of several of my granddaughters.
Attending a recent game with my oldest granddaughter, my wife noticed the bricks are missing, and she was told the brick surfaces became uneven and were replaced with pavement.
Am I on the list of Rangers creditors?
— Jan Fersing, Fort Worth
Wow. Just wow. I bet some bean counter saw a number of complaints about the uneven surfaces and felt that there was a lawsuit risk, thereby justifying the paving over of the bricks. I will be investigating this on my visit.
Update on Rangers auction: After much delay this morning, the auction has begun. Despite what appeared to be a last-minute deal put together by the Greenberg-Ryan group, the auction opened with two groups: Greenberg-Ryan and a group with one-time suitor Jim Crane and Mark Cuban. Follow Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) and the Star Telegram’s Anthony Andro (@aandro) for play-by-play.
Update 8/4 10:47 PM – Greenberg-Ryan group has won. Crane-Cuban group had one last chance but backed off. Final tally: $385 million in cash, plus $12 million in escrow and $220 million in assumed debt.
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Seriously? That sucks.
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It has always been my plan to buy a brick, no matter if it is Oakland or San Jose. Now, I guess I should think twice.
god, please don’t let cuban win the auction… i remember how beyond crappy the mavs were before he bought them. let him buy another team in another division.
let him buy us
maybe they’ll do benches with names dedicated or a wall.
NOOOOO! Now we have to face Cuban AND Moreno!!!!
I just read that the Rangers second highest bid could be accepted if MLB has a good reason for doing so, even if they don’t they’ll just have to pay fines and face sanctions but they could accept the second highest bid.
They do seem to hate Cuban for some reason
We need to start a page for Mark Zuckerberg to buy the A’s
@Jeffrey – You are such a company man! j/k
They are still not done yet in Ft. Worth tonight. The Crane-Cuban group’s bid is up to $355 million – all cash – after a third bid. The Star-Telegram reporter hit his Twitter limit an hour ago. We’ve got the Greenberg-Ryan group’s lawyer yelling at the bankruptcy restructuring lawyer and the two bidders’ lawyers yelling at each other. They’ve stopped and started so many times that the GR group is crying foul. Absolutely amazing.
GR went up to $365 million + $12 million escrow, Greenberg claimed victory. CC went up to $378 +12. Add in the $220 mil of debt to be assumed and they’re up to $610 million.
But if Zuckerberg buys the A’s, fans will be allowed to like but not dislike.
I loved that the two lawyers were swearing at each other in the hallway.
No Cuban? YAY!
Now buy the A’s.
woohoo! no cuban…
Ellison + Cuban = 0
Anybody but Wolff/Fisher for me. I’d settle on digging up Charley O’ Finley to run the club.
@baycommuter, Ask Jorge Leon if that would be any different? (just kidding)
Fantastic! Now time to get crackin’ on the A’s situation.
it’ll be great when A’s talk doesn’t have to include stadium talk or small market talk anymore. Just baseball.
Couldn’t agree more, jesse.