Hicks is broke (in a creative accounting way), the Padres got emasculated because of the owner's divorce and now the McCourts are about to push Lindsay and Paris and Britney WAY off the headlines with a scorched earth divorce that'll leave the Dodgers with a bunch of AAA infielders and DFA pitchers.

All because Frank's shriveled . . . . . . . . ego felt insulted because Jamie was swapping spit with some brainless boytoy heir to a fortune.

Frank, Frank, Frank . . . that's what interns are for!

Whatever happened to decent, clean living, respectable owners like Charlie Cominsky?

Long story. It is the modern American business where an owners greed and ambition sink the ship for everyone.

Hicks is broke and it has forced his hand into low budget zone. No money to waste on dumb signings and suddenly we have the beginnings of a pitching staff?

Who says Hicks is broke?

Need money?

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When you can't buy baseballs....Maybe he needs to study fractional reserve banking.

Do you know how much a billion is?

That's a ridiculous lawsuit. It's sad the kid died, but give me a break. That's right up there with the kids suing Micky D's because they got fat and burglars suing because they were bitten by a dog in the house they were robbing...what a joke. Why can't I come up with a lawsuit? My Uncle died last year because he had type 2 diabetes...anyone know the number to a lawyer who specializes in suing sugar companies?

Yes. Thanks to our loss of morals and common courtesy, human beings insist that someone else has to suffer whenever we feel anger or pain. Common sense is passé. Hypocrisy is ignored. And decency is regarded as a lawyer trick. What a country!

yeah and thanks to thoughts like this I didn't sue the surgeon who screwed up my nervous system when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 28, relying on the government, stuck here on a message board with nothing to do all day. (I know how that doesn't sound bad when your on your day off, but when you consider you don't have anything BUT days off OR you could do menial labor like... basically a job a teenager would get for the rest of your life... you start to realize the 'stress')

Lay off it ppl your all making assumptions you don't need to make. Say I had sued for 'rightful' malpractice back in the 90's what consequences would it have today? Very little I'd wager, my doctor would lose a BUNCH of money, perhaps, that would feel terrible at the time, but I'm sure at his wages he'd live. You think his rep as a surgeon would go down? Sure, it went down anyway whether I sued him or not. I'd just have a little more cash in my pocket.

I blame my parents really for making me make that decision at 12! With a billion other things on my mind! And GOD! You know what I got as a thank you gift?? a 5 dollar calculator from the gift shop. Oh gee thanks I don't ruin your life send you down the drain and you thank me with a CALCULATOR?? Psh... last 'good' thing I ever do in my life.

In the end what I'm saying is lawsuits aren't JUST for idiots with issues of running away from their problems. Would it have saved all of my problems? No, would it have saved even a MAJORITY of my problems? No. But it would have helped with some (supposedly... if it was handled well, don't know how long it takes, what expenses it may entail, how the settlement is handed out and such) of the mess.

Some ppl are terrible, sueing McDonalds for THEIR own mishap! Whatever. But seriously, don't blame society for one idiot's actions. There are naive 12 yr olds out there that will believe you.

You probably should have sued. The family suing Louisville Slugger because they didn't know the ball would come so fast off the bat is dumb, especially considering the kid was 18...I doubt it was his first baseball season and any league that you sign up for makes you sign a health/injury release waiver.

and the assumptions go on :| lol w/e. I just don't believe one can get away with something like this unless there IS some kind of good reason we aren't being told about. Those things are just ridiculous

Good reason, like what?

like... I'm sure we're not being told the whole story OR maybe their just a greedy individual with a grudge for the man, he can take it xD.

Regardless I don't believe the justice system is THAT corrupt. There had to be something else.

I think the justice system is a joke personally, so we will just have to agree to disagree there. I'm not knocking your opinion, but I am saying yours is different from mine and that's fine.

Speaking of a joke....

During the WorldSeries game tonight they show a fan dressed as an umpire. Tim McCarver says, "Well, he came prepared." And I just start yelling at McStupid that it's freakin' Halloween, and the fan came costumed as an ump.

McCarver is such a lost cause.

Couldn't agree more. You know someone had to come up to him and say, "You want to commentate for Fox?," because there is absolutely no way he could have filled out an application for the job on his own...that guy is a waste of air time.

Tim McCarver's Keys to the Game:

Throw strikes
Catch the ball
Score runs

"Whoever does this the most should win tonight"...lol.

Edit...and the sad part is that he's been doing if for so long people expect to hear him. Also, Joe Morgan and Jon Miller can throw themselves into the San Francisco Bay anytime now...they're terrible too.

Add Chris Berman to that list of "announcers lessening viewing enjoyment." He makes Jon Miller look like God's Gift.

Yes I do. Like I know that a dollar is worth about 9 cents now and dropping fast against other world currencies and I also know that the US dollar will soon be dumped as the AAA Standard Reserve Currency.

So in today's economy, being a millionaire is no big deal. You see them everywhere, all hat and no cattle and they too shop at Wallyworld.

Now, would you like to know how the Federal Reserve was created by seven men on an island off of Georgia?...I didn't think so.

How many MLB owners are billionaires?

I guess you're in church. The answer is:

Theodore Lerner - Nationals - $3.2B
John Malone - Braves - $1.5B
Drayton McLean - Astros - $1.4B
Michael Illitch - Tigers - $1.4B
George Steinbrenner - Yankees - $1.3B
John Henry - BoSox - $1.1B

and

Tom Hicks - Rangers - $1.0B

I've not included anyone past or present for the Cubs, though they're in there. Nor John Fishe of the A's and Carl Linder of the Reds since both are minority owners.

So, this begs the question: What does nine cents on the dollar, or any of your other inconsequential ramblings have to do with anything related to Tom Hicks' ability and pocketbook as an owner?