Chuck Greenberg resigning as CEO

[mustang_marc]

Hopefully this doesn't affect what happens on the field. I'm curious what we eventually find out from this.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110311&content_id=16902352&vkey=news_tex&c_id=tex&partnerId=rss_tex

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Chuck Greenberg, who put together a group that bought the Rangers from owner Tom Hicks last summer, will step down as the club's managing partner and chief executive officer, club sources said on Friday.

An announcement could come as early as Friday, although the Rangers vice-president John Blake said, "the club has no comments on reports at this time." Greenberg's resignation likely signals a conflict within the Rangers' leadership team. He had been to Spring Training twice but recently cut short what was supposed to be a week-long stay.

Greenberg was the one who put the group together, but the largest investors are Dallas businessman Ray Davis and Fort Worth oilman Bob Simpson. Nolan Ryan is the club president and another investor in the group.

[mustang_marc]

Nevermind...just saw in the spring training thread.

[momo]

i think it deserves its own thread.

[mustang_marc]

That came to a grinding halt fast. Go from buying the team to world series to gone in 7-ish months.

[0 GT 2]

Apparently Greenberg's constant pestering of Cliff Lee really shot the deal in the foot.

[Slowhand]

That came to a grinding halt fast. Go from buying the team to world series to gone in 7-ish months.

Still supposed to have his ownership stake, from what I've heard. Not sure he really needed to be involved in ops anyway.

[Geor!]

Still supposed to have his ownership stake, from what I've heard. Not sure he really needed to be involved in ops anyway.

He's the one who was behind all of the changes they made at the Ballpark this year. To say that is just plain dumb.

Actually, he's selling is ownership stake too, so your entire post was full of stupidity.

[Slowhand]

He's the one who was behind all of the changes they made at the Ballpark this year. To say that is just plain dumb.

Actually, he's selling is ownership stake too, so your entire post was full of stupidity.

I was misinformed then. And I was speaking towards the baseball operations side of the deal, but I did like a lot of the business/ballpark decisions made this year. Hopefully Nolan will step in and continue the good work.

[War Machine]

He's the one who was behind all of the changes they made at the Ballpark this year. To say that is just plain dumb.

Actually, he's selling is ownership stake too, so your entire post was full of stupidity.

damn! you take ranger talk seriously lol

[Lone Sailor]

I don't want this to sound gullible, but this could have been the plan all along. Nolan Ryan obviously never could've bought this team without some bigger backers at the table. I'm wondering if the plan all along was for Greenberg's time to be short lived as merely being the best alternative to get Ryan in the frontman's seat as part owner of the Rangers.

[0 GT 2]

I don't want this to sound gullible, but this could have been the plan all along. Nolan Ryan obviously never could've bought this team without some bigger backers at the table. I'm wondering if the plan all along was for Greenberg's time to be short lived as merely being the best alternative to get Ryan in the frontman's seat as part owner of the Rangers.

I'm sure that had something to do with Nolan Ryan being so adamant about not working with Mark Cuban since he knew he would have wanted to be too "hands on".