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Rangers president Nolan Ryan 'confident' sale will get done, he will be co-owner

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan remains confident that he will be adding the title of team co-owner to his resume.A federal bankruptcy judge is still sorting out the club-initiated bankruptcy designed to spur completion of the sale of the team from Tom Hicks to a group led by Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher, and Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg."We're still confident that we're going to get the deal done," Ryan said Wednesday. "We're still in the process, so we'll just have to wait and see, but we've been kind of in this position for quite a while now."U.S. Bankruptcy Judge D. Michael Lynn in Fort Worth said Tuesday that the Rangers will have to change their bankruptcy plan to avoid having it stopped by upset creditors.But Lynn didn't say the team would have to change the $75 million the team owes, and didn't indicate that the bidding process for the team should reopen because the Greenberg-Ryan bid of $575 million was not the highest.A final decision on th...

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