bschmaranz

I can see it now. Hahn walks into a presser with a Steve Martin arrow thru the head deal... "What's the deal with Yonder Alonso? Are we seeing him over yonder!?"

Who wrote that? Well-placed source when the Sox haven't let anything outta the room as of yet?

Yup. I'm at work in my office by myself yelling "ALBERT BELLE HAD OPT OUTS!" at the speaker. I know this, you know this, yet a guy that's been reporting Chicago baseball for the last 300 years doesn't. Bruce needs to fade away.

Levine (who obviously is 100% speculating here, I don't even think he has a Sox source anymore) is on his show on the Score saying he'd be surprised if the Sox go over 7 years for either guy. He also felt the need to pontificate on why opt outs are stupid and nobody should offer them anymore and he doubts the Sox will offer them either. He was positive about Alonso though, so there's that.

Oh yeah, for sure. I need a new black one, "Machado" would look nice on the back. My Bo Jackson one is on it's last legs.

I like the cut of your jib.

Can it happen? Sure. Will it happen, that's pretty unlikely. I will say this, you'll see my ass at a lot of games this season if they make that commitment to us.

Promise?

That's so much uncertainty though. Could wind up costing him a hundred mil or so.

Pretty sure Machado's agent would hit him over the head with the business end of a 2x4 if he took that deal.

Batting average? You know the guy had nearly a .400 obp right?

"Favorite Backstreet Boy, go!"

State income tax is 13% in CA Roughly 5% in IL

"Hey I took care of that thing for ya!" Seriously, Pete "The Killer" still plays the antagonist in my nightmares.