{"id":15596,"date":"2010-05-12T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T12:26:34","slug":"selig-and-hedge-fund-face-off-over-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/selig-and-hedge-fund-face-off-over-rangers.html","title":{"rendered":"Selig and Hedge Fund Face Off Over Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; The Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and a group of creditors led by hedge fund Monarch Alternative Capital  are reportedly playing a game of hardball over the hamstrung sale of the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sports Business Journal, Mr. Selig has threatened to invoke the \u201cbest interests of the game\u201d clause in his charter that would allow him to effectively seize control of the team if the creditors don\u2019t approve the sale of the club to Rangers Baseball Express, an investment group headed by Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/12\/selig-and-hedge-fund-face-off-over-rangers\/?src=busln\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; The Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and a group of creditors led by hedge fund Monarch Alternative Capital are reportedly playing a game of hardball over the hamstrung sale of the Texas Rangers. According to the Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15597,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}