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I agree with this, it's also why I'm most scared of the padres because they seem to be more emotionally invested in big splashes. It really wouldn't be worth it if there is an opt out in year 2. Ideally you begin to build around machado, but if you do that and he opts out, you don't have as much flexibility to re-sign then 28 year old machado just as you need him.

I like how buster straddles this line of both that teams should be more involved in free agency and trying to win and also that only World Series contenders this year should sign top free agents.

They are going after Harper too and nobody has described that pursuit as fake. I’d throw the Padres financials out the window, it’s clear they are gonna give this a ride. I’m definitely nervous, the Sox may be more dogmatic about player value than the Padres (see Hosmer$)

That wasn’t my point. People are pointing to his recent tweets floating about his previous reports as good news for Sox, but it is outdated and doesn’t reflect on what the current situation apparently is with San Diego being much more aggressive.

The good news is it has validated players waiting until last minute so every offseason can be like this. wait did I say good news?

Gomez cares more that his reporting on the Sox offer was right, not that the Sox are still going to land Machado.

Or you could have publicly had a 275 million offer instead of pushing your “won’t go past 7 years and offer 175 mill” line of strategy and prevent the Padres from ever pushing at all.

But Sox may also not want to pay more than “what they think he’s worth”, which is my bigger worry.

This is often what it’s like when the Sox don’t land someone.

Yes his weeks old information really comforts me.

That the pads are in on this means they have cleared themselves to spend money that is going to push the Sox.

San Diego was in the tax already with like a 600 person class that has partly fueled their #1 farm system.

Padres with Machado and Tatis for next decade is worse than cubs signing either to me. Just a team created by white Sox failure.

You have multiple people saying the pads offer is over 280 and you are going to risk it for...what exactly? Too many people have bought into the fact that the worst thing Sox can do is bid against themselves. Worst that can happen is they fail to sign him.

damn. It’s hitting numbers I’m legitimately concerned Sox will walk away from.

Then the white Sox of the last decade should have been a power house.

He also clearly targeted this market as part of the rebuild and routinely fails at execution in free agency so, yeah he deserves to be judged. If Sox don’t land Machado, do me a favor and make a list of white Sox free agent signings since he took over and cry.

It’s amazing that it’s never Hahns fault, it’s always KWs or now Reinsdorfs.

I don’t want the Sox in the other end pushing the tax issue thinking they are clever. Beat the effing offer and end it. i sure wish it was the Sox we were hearing about being aggressive. Sox have a chance to prove they are operating differently, but until they execute I believe they are arrogant about how clever they are.

When the mlb forum goes up soon we can add it there. PHT gets a little crowded with sticky’s.

One of the victims was a northern Illinois student on the first day of his internship. So cruel.

I just learned about the Kanopy app. Really thrilled with this. Was getting very frustrated at the lack of streaming options for older/foreign movies.

I think what bothers me most is they keep posing that they would rather sign in volume with lower level guys since 16 year olds are such a crap shoot, yet the only players they have signed since 2013 that will make it to AA are all top 30 guys that they paid for: Adolfo, Robert and the lower end of this is tatis who was right around top 30. Yeah, they had some million plus signings that didn’t work out, but let’s just say I’d rather have been the Yankees this class with one 5 mill signing than the white Sox. They haven’t proven they know what they are doing.

Anxious to see how Missouri’s hitters do to see how much one month of Matt Lisle accomplishes

Gonna go with Covey and Sheets