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.

They shed $3 million. Not really gonna make much of a dent.

I'd love that signing, that slider is so hilarious. You almost wanna play the Benny Hill music when someone tries to read it.

Morosi is usually solid

Bowden for prom king!

You forgot we signed GOINS!

Yeah Muncy even is another guy they could plug at 2B. Turner can play 1B and they can move Taylor or Muncy to 3B even. They also have Freeze still too.

Taylor and Hernandez are fun to have, you can plug em anywhere.

Bellinger is the best centerfielder they've got. Muncy is probably gonna continue at 1B.

Eleventy kabillion, give or take a few kabillion. I'm not sure about ownership clauses, I think you can't really measure it when adding up the payroll for luxury tax purposes so I would assume that's out.