Comments on: Did Chuck Greenberg undermine Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels?

By: terryindallas

terryindallas — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:30:35 +0000

I think this is half of it. The other half is something close to what Greenberg stated, a response to the Yankees offer, but yeah, they probably felt they needed to counteract the cattleman’s unusual negotiating style that didn’t go over too well with Braunecker.

By: Richard In Big D

Richard In Big D — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:59:54 +0000

*Also worth noting, Craig, is the amount of shock dispensed when the Rangers won the trade war for Lee at the deadline…

By: ditto65

ditto65 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:26:47 +0000

And force a team that can afford to overspend, overspend?
Running up the price of future free agents?
Making it even more difficult for the Rangers in the future?
Putting millions more in the pocket of the guy that just left you?
I don’t believe it.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:46:05 +0000

Or it could be that they planned for him to “undermine” them and make it look like they’d spend big so the Yankees would have to pay more. Maybe they’re just crazy like a fox.

By: texasdawg

texasdawg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:34:32 +0000

Nearly the exact opposite is the case, actually.

Greenberg, Levine, and Davis had to go to Arkansas and then have Greenberg do the conference call with local media to do major damage control after Ryan made a mess of a the situation, telling the press the Rangers would not “get in a bidding war” and that Lee needed to just name his price.

Nolan Ryan is in way over his head in that position. This isn’t the first big error he’s made in his short time as Rangers president, and it won’t be the last.

By: joshv02

joshv02 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:33:19 +0000

“Other major league sources”

This confuses me. Do you mean writers when you say “sources”? If not, “other” than whom…. I don’t think you cited a ML “source” other than yourself (which would be the natural way to read the antecedent for “other”)

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:20:55 +0000

“Hey Chuck, you lilly-livered peasant, remember what I did to Robin Ventura? C’mere.”