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Maybe we underestimated how much harper wants to watch the golden state warriors.

I just really want harper to phillies because I have more confidence in being in a bidding war vs. padres.

Ha, yeah that's weird, another link from Fathom on the interview said he guessed giants. I haven't listened to the radio interview.

I know we all want resolution but when I say I want resolution I really only mean the resolution that ends with one of those dudes on the white sox otherwise i'd rather live in this world where it's possible.

Judging by this offseason, we'll get a "machado and white sox nearing a new deal" an then 4 months pass

Shooter has been apprehended.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-aurora-police-st-0217-story.html?__twitter_impression=true I hope all are okay here, and praying all affected will recover from their wounds.

that would be incredible.

No. I did a exercise looking at a "big board" of all our talent or close talent and I think you go through the year and target big bats for the corners like castellanos and make a run at rendon and others.

That was retweeted by the chicago tribune twitter.

I'm sick to my stomach reading this, very early and unclear what is happening.

100%

Passan's article was good.

At least we are past the point of personally reconstructing hundred of contract variables. Trade talk >>>>>>>> Free Agent talk

I thought almost all the players made a huge mistake waiting for better deals. But stupid San Diego may have just validated this approach so that in future offseasons the same thing happens.

yesterday my wife asked what i was doing after staring noticeably for at least 5 minutes the manny machado instagram post with him and his wife because i was trying to figure out what the black and white logo was on his shirt. No good recoveries there.

it may surprise this board to know this, but not everyone is focused intently on what's going on with manny and bryce.

Again, he's not losing anything by waiting. So remove your hyperbole and it makes sense he continues to wait. At some point finding lodging in chicago and "settling in" may start to become an issue (hopefully very soon) but we are still just 2 days into P&C reporting.

If you had told me on 12/15 that I would be sitting in this thread 2 months later with the same amount of info and i would have checked in every day still... I would have basically done the same thing I did but been less enthusiastic.

I think the population is in general much more pro-player than in 1994, when the million dollar athletes became the norm, and that seemed obscene. Now that all the franchises are worth a billion, people seem to get it.

This is one interpretation. The other is the sox contract isn't going away, but the sox also aren't increasing their offer without other, bigger offers. So they need other teams to get into the mix to improve their offers and in turn the white sox. They can safely do this, because the white sox aren't going to move on.

Recognition is big, they feel they are best in game and want to get paid like it. JD Martinez was and is one of the best hitters in baseball, he felt he should be worth just as much as what Chris Davis got. He settled for what was there after waiting to see if it could change. He didn't lose money. Same with Manny. He will be happy with the amount of money he has. But they inevitably feel like they are best and should get paid like it. Is he holding for $50 mill? Earlier opt out? Another year? Who knows but they have (correctly) calculated that they aren't losing by waiting, and look, here just came preller and jumped into mix late. Proof that waiting can help.

I completely agree with this, but you have implied this isn't a negotiating strategy by the players and is instead over player team preference. I disagree that the players are losing money by waiting though. The teams to this point have shown they don't actually care about backup plans. They have players they target and if they miss out they seem to just play with what they have (implying that the remaining free agents are worth less than even their depth pieces). They may be right.

The deal Martinez signed was basically the same that was rumored months prior (in terms of years and money, but the final deal had creative options). By your argument his decision to wait must have been due to him not wanting to play with the boston red sox. Yes, if the Red Sox had offered him $250 million it is likely he would have signed.

good for braves if they do it.