Forever Ballpark
Face of the franchise: $80 million.
Cy Young relief pitcher: $6 million.
Most Valuable Player slugger: $500,000
Having your "brand" on the best Ballpark in baseball: priceless.
The Rangers figured out there really are things money can't buy...
We all know this. There are certain things in your life you will never forget as long as you live. A wedding. A birth. A baseball game that will liver forever.
Or walking through a tunnel for the very first time on an April morning in 1994 and seeing a brand new ballpark explode in majesty and splendor before your eyes for the very first time.
We talked about it last summer: The Ballpark of One Thousand Games.
Now it belongs to us again. After three years, The Ballpark in Arlington has been returned to the fans. We own it again, not some mortgage company in Orange County. Somebody was paying attention. Toby heartily approves.
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
Rangers (Fans) Ballpark in Arlington.
It is the Ballpark.
To call it anything but a Ballpark was wrong.
Our Ballpark.
The Rangers - to their everlasting credit - figured that out.
Malum consilium quod mutari non potest!
Took them three years but they got it. They gave us back the Ballpark in Arlington and understood who it really belongs to.
Shakespeare got this one wrong: A rose by any other name does not smell just as sweet.
There is only one name for OUR ballpark. It is the ultimate Elysian Fields.
Welcome back to the Ballpark in Arlington.
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
I love typing that name again.
Bravo!!!
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."
-Chinese Proverb
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Congratulations and Kudos to the powers-that-be, in coming home to the name that should always have been.
If now, we could only start dismantling all the signage around the ballpark, which makes it look so minor league aesthetically. Then onward after that and remove the Diamond Club (or whatever it's called now by the muckity-mucks)....then we can restore the beautiful, pastoral feeling to the ol' ballyard. Recapturing the original name is a good, first step Mr. Hicks. I thank you. Now, remove all the signage all over the place to restore the integrity of what Mr.Schieffer envisoned and produced.
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Congratulations! Maybe there's hope for us other guys down the road :-)
http://azdiamondhacks.mlblogs.com/diamondhacks/2007/01/renaming_chase.html
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Post and repost. Eleanor you crack me up! My instinct is to ask why the plan changed...I'm actually without a quote to respond so I'll do Kipling again...anyway you look at the Park is beautiful no matter what name they put on it
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I like the new version of the old name and it beats the **** out of my little sister's suggestion of "Rangers Stadium 2.0"
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Your giving way to much credit to the Rangers. Jeff Corgen signed that ridiculous deal with that spare finance company from Orange County and they pulled out on the Rangers not the other way around. If Corgen knew this team and it's fans all this Ameriquest stuff never would have happened. Let's start over with a new team President as well as the name change.
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Enjoy it while it lasts people. Here's betting that this won't be the last name of The Ballpark in Arlington. As the principal owner and managing general partner Hicks reserves the right to do as he pleases. How many presidents, managers, General Managers and names of the ballpark have we had under his ownership? The only constant during his reign is change. I believe that he will re-sell the naming rights whenever he feels it necessary to get more cash! Bye the Bye, he also took the opportunity to divorce himself from a company that is involved in scandal.
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1. Hicks was determined to sell the name of the ballpark, not Cogen.
2. Cogen probably negotiated the best possible deal as per Hicks' orders.
3. Still think the Bush group called it the Ballpark in Arlington so some company could add it's name to the front. The intention from the beginning was to sell the name.
4. Wrigley Field has been a standing advertisment for chewing gum for 90 years.
5. If you read TR's story, Cogen approached Ameriquest first, not the other way around.
6. They changed it, that's all that matters.
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I'm in a good mood, so I'll just suggest that we enjoy the moment while we can.
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