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If your take is that Hahn and company will prove once and for all they suck at their jobs if no whales come here you are right. But many of us thought that way before this. The best we can do is hope they get it done. I think you're really just preaching to the choir for the most part.

We also have to remember Manny seems to be very family oriented. Hahn knows this. That's why we saw the Hahn quotes about family the other day. Machado chose to play for the DR in the WBC instead of team USA because his parents are both from the DR. We may question Machado's actions on the diamond as dirty or non hustling. However he does have family values and wants to play every game ,both valuable qualities , one as a man and the other as a baseball player. Anyone who thinks he is a dirtbag would be wrong.

a man's reach should exceed his grasp Words from a poem by Robert Browning, suggesting that, to achieve anything worthwhile, a person should attempt even those things that may turn out to be impossible.

Didn't Boras say some teams did have some very graphic pictures ?

I think you might be the single most disappointed person on the board if the Sox sign neither.

I'm not knocking the acquisition of Alonso at all. Far from it. I like the move. Just saying That I don't care one way or another if people make fun of the Sox.Right now we are irrelevant until we can sign one of the whales. If that doesn't happen the scorn from not dong that will far outweigh the jokes about Alonso being acquired.

Being irrelevant is probably worse. At least they have to know you exist to make fun of you.

Eh,that's nothing new.

Any idea where he might start ? AZL ?

They have no choice but to believe in him. They sure aren't going to give up on him and admit that Hostetler was a complete dumbass saying he wouiuld've picked him 1-1.

We can bet a penny then you only have to pay out $400 if you lose. You just said nearly 100% odds and you listed the odds at 40,000 to 1 in your favor. Surely that's good enough to gamble on . Any other team gets him besides Cubs and Sox and it's a wash , no money owed.

Let's bet a dollar on those odds you posted. You win I send you $1, I win you send me $40,000.Time to put up or you know the rest. You take Cubs I take Sox.

Oh boy so if that's the case let me bet Jack $1 and I get $40,000 if I win.

hey I'm old and i go t it right. Just experiment shouldn't take long.

2017 he was pretty bad 1.631 WHIP 6.6 BB9 2018 WHIP .991, 4.8 H9 but also 4.2 BB9 but highest K9 for his career at 13 Both BB9's were highest of his career. Our 9th innings would be exciting for sure.

Well this was a lot of foreplay without the happy ending.

Why are you surprised? It's longer than 2 sentences .

Strasburg might not but the rest probably will . I know there's a ton of speculation about Arenado resigning with the ROX but no one knows that. Not many give up the right to free agency. I also left out Verlander and Felix Hernandez because of their age .

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You mean non existent after Sale, Goldschmidt, Arenado, Rendon, Bumgarner, Cole. Khris Davis,Bogaerts, Gregorious, Gennett, Castellanos, Puig, Wheeler and guys like JD Martinez and Strasburg who can opt out.

Because it takes a minute to go from pretty sure you knew to being correct. I knew it was wrong because I had done previous research on Kikuchi and anyone making a thread on acquiring him should probably know the facts about him.

Um because Harper provides more in terms of excitability and marketability while Machado is seen as a non hustling dirty SOB. I know you know this but maybe don't believe it ? Machado is the anti Harper. He's been the consistently better player but Harper is till capable of higher upside. He's not quite Albert Belle crazy dirty psyhco but still with all social media now as opposed to back then he's getting much more bad press about it.

Ryan Raburn owned the Sox . Had crazy numbers against us and blah against everyone else.

I picked a figure pretty much right in the middle 36 + $7 posting fee equals $43M with the $7M going to his former team. I think 6yrs is too high for him but you never know . Maybe 5 max with team option for a sixth. Very doubtful the Sox have any interest in him at all nor he in the Sox. As you know I have said next year was going to be the go after a starting pitcher year. The Nova signing all but confirmed it.

Just for the record I think it's irresponsible to start a thread on the guy and give out false info on the posting fee when it took me about a minute to find it on google.