In keeping with my desire to be an equal opportunity partisan for both sides, I offer today’s hit. Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers baseball club filed for bankruptcy today, citing an unacceptable long-term debt load. It’s actually still paying off on the A-Rod contract. Obviously, this mess has to be the fault of the club’s former (and incompetent) owner, George W. Bush:
I’m assuming the pink font was supposed to be used, but Tom Hicks signed A-Rod to that deal. Bush’s mistake (and he’s admitted this one in the past) during his tenure as owner was in OK’ing the trade that sent Sammy Sosa to the Cubs. Hicks got himself deep with his ownership of the Dallas Stars as well as a part-ownership of Arsenal in the EPL in addition to his ownership of the Rangers.
I don’t use color fonts but, yes, that was the color I would have chosen if I used them.
So your blaming Bush? Really? Lets see, he hasn’t worked full time in the Rangers organization since around 1996, maybe 1998.
The stain of the Bush(league) regime in baseball obviously was enervating enough to have dealt a fatal blow to the Rangers organization. It fought it off as best it could but the life-sucking negative waves from Bush fils was just too much for it to overcome. Don’t you see?
Don’t you see?
I think you’re being unfair by blaming this entirely on Bush without including the Costa Rican Ball Manufacturing Cartel. Clearly they are controlling ball manufacturing enough as to only drive out the weak of professional teams and milking their nearly unknown craft of ball threading for everything it’s worth at the cost of a few US franchises.
~Matt
Don’t you see?
I think you’re being unfair by blaming this entirely on Bush without including the Costa Rican Ball Manufacturing Cartel. Clearly they are controlling ball manufacturing enough as to only drive out the weak of professional teams and milking their nearly unknown craft of ball threading for everything it’s worth at the cost of a few US franchises.
~Matt
Again Bush’s fault for his lack of regulation on big business. Were Bush still in office Costa Rica would clearly be on the long list of countries to invade in the name of “National Security.”
If you did read the transcript of the press conference, I found it most interesting that Mickey Tettleton made it on the list of largest creditors at $1.4M. The guy hasn’t swung a bat professionally since 1997. Even then his contract was only for $1,783,140 (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tettlmi01.shtml).