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That is an option too.

Sorry, my comment was snarky and not at you. Where I think NBA cap works is it effectively raised the salary for the median nba player. It did not help the superstar nba player. And, quite honestly in baseball I do think a salary cap would make the yankees even more dominant. Baseball players would be better served imo to fight to cut team control to 4 years with a 5th year option tied to the average salary of the top 10 players in the position or something like that. Teams rightly don't want to pay for players as they decline, but that means they shouldn't get to underpay them when they are. That would really hurt vets immediately but I fully believe middle tier players would do better after 2-3 years.

Sorry, I'm not sympathetic to the white sox in this scenario.

The Golden State Warriors lost 2 years ago to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Heat lost to the Mavs. edit: The rockets took GSW to a game 7 and it took a historically poor shooting night to lose The OKC thunder took GSW to a game 7 The 2000 lakers went like 16-1 in the playoffs.

Yeah basically we can hybrid two theories. One is hector gomez/passan where sox have actually verbalized a final winning offer letting machado's camp do what they can with it (8/250), but a literal offer of 7/175 which lozano decided to leak to then show he gained 75 million for his client in bidding.

oh man yeah the glory days of lakers nets please take me back oh god back to the competitive days where only 2 teams won a championship in 8 years wonderful time love history.

I definitely think it hurt especially among weird teams that care about that like the cards.

Better example: John Wall is making 40 mill a year dude.

Its crazy, but some people just like watching the game because it's fun and don't just watch because they only get enjoyment from wins. For instance, you could talk to nba fans why they like it instead of just talking to baseball and hockey fans who mostly can just muster why nba sucks.

If I wanted my roster to learn off the ball movement the last coach I would hire is Jim Boylen, well, Byron Scott and then Jim Boylen.

Most of that is just driven by the fact that nba is a different game that is hugely influenced by a small number of players. It still has the same ecosystem nba has of teams that behave rich, teams that behave smart, and outside of soxtalk.com, the nba is actually quite popular! It's the sport people actually talk about at work!

They gave him the Eaton trade! it was a big deal!

It's one of those things where in interviews they will say it doesn't matter but they play the game all the same.

Personally I hope they give it to merk.

I wouldn't have guessed so either but soxbadger has what i believe to be the most plausible motive for anyone to leak. But it's just a weird leak that I have a hard time believing benefits anyone, maybe the phillies in that it just causes uncertainty. edit: like maybe phillies float this, see the backlash, and go to manny and say "we would never waste your time with an offer as insulting as the white sox. Here's 8 for 250, we believe in you and don't try to just buy you off for discount by hiring your friends.:

Uh, yeah.

If he went on the market at age 25 like Arod did? I can't even imagine.

Yeah easily.

Right, Murray just happens to play the one position that has a better value prop than MLB.

Yes, more control for one. Doesn't think it's 1985 for another.

Completely agree, and that's why I thought Passan's report meant it was close ?

Here's the thing, there was a clear white sox org push yesterday to put out the "the offer is ONLY 7 years". That is the only leak that I would say with certainty came from a specific place and that's the sox. So this dovetails with that report, not passan's. That said, this goes back to I think dealing with language like "offered" and "official offer" and discussed, as I think people are playing around with semantics to the reporters to be cute.

There are organizations that can sit back and let the market dictate and then decide to top it, but I don't think the white sox are one of those organizations. But, I actually don't think they are operating that way.

Ha, missed this. A believable angle.

yankees twitter frothing at the mouth now edit: was mixing several folksy sayings and committed to one.