Hello Bankruptcy, Goodbye Tom Hicks

The Texas Rangers can finally start to close the book on the Tom Hicks era of baseball in the metroplex. The inability of Tom Hicks and his team to reach an agreement with their lenders forced MLB to move in and force the team into bankruptcy protection. None the less progress is finally being made and the new ownership is supposed to step in by the middle of the summer. The only positive to come out of this is the fact that the Rangers are no longer owned by Tom Hicks.

If it takes a Texas Rangers Bankruptcy to force this sale and get the team of a meager budget that threatens to handcuff the team again this season at the trade deadline I am all for it. The team may still be handcuffed at the trade deadline because of the Rangers Bankruptcy, but at least we know we won’t be losing anymore first round draft picks this summer because Tom Hicks is a financial doucher.

The only reason that I am not more excited about the teams sale is because of after watching how messy this got before finally a Texas Rangers Bankruptcy forced the sale of the team is knowing that the Dallas Stars are about to go through the same thing. Hopefully the Hicks and his band of village idiots will be able to learn something from this process, but I doubt it because no matter what they say, it will always be about the bottom line not the team.