Comments on: Times Are Tough

By: Gravypan

Gravypan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:54:44 +0000

“# Carol @ July 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm

You are right Chad but I guess I never thought of them as the “Dallas Stars” until Hicks bought them.”

I loved that Tom Hicks as well. The problem is, that Tom Hicks disappeared sometime during the 2002 season when he saw the success the small market A’s were having in baseball, looked at A-Rod’s contract, and said WTF am I doing pouring millions into a last place team?

By: Gerald Fine

Gerald Fine — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:17 +0000

I am reminded of the Pete Gent book, “North Dallas Forty”. A frustrated player is confronting the
coach yelling, “Every time I call this a game your tell me it is a business, and every time I call it a business you call it a game”.
In tough times like these I can
assure you it is all business……….

By: Brandon B

Brandon B — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:44:05 +0000

Doesn’t Hicks have a buyer for Liverpool? Hasn’t some Dubai group wanted to purchase his 50% for year now?

Please don’t fool yourselves. Hicks is in this for one thing and one thing only – money. If he happens to have a winner, that’s just icing on the cake. If he has a loser, hey, at least he made some money.

One last thing. It’s hard to give Hicks credit for spending up to the cap in hockey. He should be approaching the cap each and every year. He is living in Florida Marlins and Washington Nationals territory by spending at the floor.

There is a reason Hicks was recently voted the second worst owner in baseball…

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:06:13 +0000

You are right Chad but I guess I never thought of them as the “Dallas Stars” until Hicks bought them.

By: David C

David C — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:03:42 +0000

Tom Hicks is one of the main reasons why Mack Brown is the football coach at Texas, and for that, I will forever like him.

I would love to see it work out for him with the Rangers and Stars, especially the Rangers. He’s been able to experience a championship with the Stars, but not the Rangers. Be a shame if he had to get out now that the plan they went to 3-4 years ago is starting to materialize.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:00 +0000

Carol,
Tom Hicks didn’t bring hockey to Dallas. The Stars were already here when he bought the team in 1995. Norman Green moved them to Dallas in 1993.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:06:14 +0000

Sorry, 90Days, I love the guy. He brought hockey and the Stars to Dallas and I didn’t even know what I was missing.
Oh and Go Rangers!

By: 90DaysOfHicksDefault

90DaysOfHicksDefault — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:31:52 +0000

it’s unanamous……..we don’t like hicks!

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:17:21 +0000

I am going to swan dive off the nearest building if we lose xabi and the masher…Hicks will pocket the money to pay off debt and we will finish outside the top four. Please god find Hicks a buyer for Liverpool.

By: Bob Sturm on Hicks « The Dallas Stars Assertion

Bob Sturm on Hicks « The Dallas Stars Assertion — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:28:32 +0000

[...] 07.02.09 by TDSA_Brian For all of you (us?) who were under the delusion that Hick’s wanting to keep majority of the Stars but sale the beloved Rangers MLB team meant that Hicks loved us best and that he’d be spending more money because of that. Bobbie Sturm has a nice blog to put us in our places over at his D-Magazine blog that can be found here: http://insidecorner.dmagazine.com/index.php/2009/07/02/times-are-tough/ [...]