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You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money Love like you’ll never get hurt You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’ It’s gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

I'm not using alcohol I'm listening to the best rock music from the last 50 years that i have on itunes. My favorites tunes for extended hours always works for me along with singing and dancing to them . Thank God no one is listening or watching.

Oh there you are. I 've brought up that diminished skills clause a couple of times already. Nice bag and glad you're ok .

Has ChicagoWhiteSox ( the poster who was the most positive about signing Manny) said anything yet since the announcement of the Padres getting Manny ? I've read through a lot of posts and haven't seen anything from him. I'm seriously worried about him.

I was thinking the same but I decided it is an overreaction, I mean it COULD be if the rebuild fails but they still have a lot of talent in the organization . Now more than ever you have to try for whales again but we have 2019 to see how Eloy Cease Dunning and all the young OFer's. relievers and catchers do.

Yea imagine putting future incentive clauses in a 29 or 30 year (Arenado, Rendon etc ) old FA's contract. You either are serious about getting and paying for the best or you are not. What you don't do is dick around with those incentive clauses knowing full well they are not in the players best interest to accept those.

Balta is changing his name to FOClowns.

Um no he needed to play baseball good and contribute to a winning team. Eloy is going to be the face because he appears to be a nice thoughtful and funny kid.

i'M ACTUALLY NOT UPSET AT ALL ! Seriously I'm not. This is the dispassionate reality of the situation and has been for a while. Once in a while we get thrown a bone and we all salivate thinking things have changed but we never get thrown continuance bones. Sustained success ? Please right now all the talk is just blah blah ,blah blah blah,blah, blah blah blah.

Why ? He did what free agents do . He took the most money. I hope he does great and makes the Sox regret their stupidity, arrogance, short-sightedness, buffoonery ,ineffectualness, smallness and irrelevance even more.

Hey Manny , since you won't be using those black and white gloves can I have one ?

I didn't actually count how many times he said it but I had to SMH and chuckle knowingly every time.

Same as me except for the Padres part. I am not remotely interested in rooting for any other team, Sox for life for better or worse....unlike our ex-wives .

Over/under on how many times Balta has called the Sox FO clowns today is 7.5 .

I wonder if, when Reinsdorf was a kid , he was the guy making money from 3 card monte or the shell game.

Yea it's called aging for a reason. You reach a peak physically then decline especially when you are at the top of the list in games played every year. it's the Frank Thomas diminishing skills clause just presented differently. God forbid the Sox FO ever gives in to a genuine difference maker .No they just have to have it their way. My way or the highway and Manny took that highway to SD.

I was thinking if Machado doesn't make the HOF he might regret going to a big ballpark in SD over our band box, But then again that $300M pillow will be nice and cushy to sleep on.

You weren't the first nor the last to be taken in by a con artist.

NOT. GOOD. ENOUGH. ENOUGH !!

If this had happened Friday imagine all the weekends lost in a blur of alcohol and drugs.

Machado was a very important piece. Great offensively and defensively at 3rd base .Same age as a lot of guys we have on the roster we keep giving chances to but actually a vet with a lot of good years behind him. Not an injury prone guy . Plays just about every game every year. He fit everything the Sox could ve wanted in a market that they couldn't have hoped to be better. I totally understand why this is so crushing to so many. When all your prospects are getting injured and failing and the fan base is ready to abandon hope Machado represented a brighter future and a chance to renew faith in the organization.

A rebuild the proper way might actually work if any of our draft choices became good. Just add that to the list of failures.

It seems pretty obvious this was the plan all along. And I 'm sure they had the market for Manny pretty well figured out. What they didn't expect most likely was the Padres jumping in which I called back on page 236. They wern't going to budge from what they thought was fair and unable to go beyond fair because that's the price you must pay in the ideal situation for an elite offensive and defensive talent in his prime. In my mind it's all on Reinsdorf to approve the money and he didn't.

Probably because it all comes down to Reinsdorf . Anger at his underlings, though deserved, is misdirected anger .

Sure never been in that Stadium before.