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Nick Lachey’s gonna own a minor-league baseball team with Dallas’ Kirby Schlegel. Pinch me.
Since Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson aren’t dating after all–no surprise there, since, like, isn’t she supposed to be with John Mayer?–guess we’ll have to settle for Kirby Schlegel and Nick Lachey. I know. Kind of a letdown.
But that’s what it says in The Seattle Times: Lachey’s expected to be announced today as co-owner of the Tacoma Rainiers, the Pacific Coast League team that, since 1995, has been the Seattle Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate. (Alex Rodriguez played for the Rainiers in 1995, matter of fact.) Schlegel bought the team in July and apparently wanted a celebrity partner in the endeavor; he settled instead for Lachey. (Thank you, thank you all.)
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If you don’t know much about the Canadian-born Kirby Schlegel, who moved to Dallas when he was 6, well, here’s his shorthand bio: He’s founder and chairman of Schlegel Sports, which began three years back when the 28-year-old Schlegel took control of the Texas Tornado of the North American Hockey League. He moved the team to Frisco and worked out a marketing partnershp with the Dallas Stars. His group also owns the Iowa Stars of the American Hockey League; the Stars are, you guessed it, a feeder team for Your Dallas Stars. As for Schlegel Sports Group, its president is Mike McCall–who, for the last three years, was president and general manager of the Frisco Roughriders.
So, yes, to answer your question, Kirby Schlegel is a Tom Hicks starter kit. And I mean that in a nice way. –Robert Wilonsky
