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I think a lot of posters (@iamshack specifically) said that should have been game all along. I was open to it as sox had shown some ability to target these types of players in the past, but they were injured but also...they just didn't have very high ceilings and I think taking less certainty in a tradeoff for higher payoff (players that still may grow into their bodies and raise ceilings) made more sense for rebuilding sox than targeting these players to see what they did with an MLB spot. They really could have just used waivers for that exclusively.

I think the injuries showed off the risk in acquiring 24/25 year olds.

Not sure that would work out well for white sox.

Clock is ticking man, I don’t know they’ll have a chance.

Sox really whiffed on their targets they acquired from duke/swarzak. I hope they re evaluate that type of return.

I can't express to you if I was a phillies fan how much i would gag at my new outfield of McCutchen Pollock and ...Hoskens? Herrerra? My rebuilding team suddenly looks old and broken down.

The lit on this is really annoying. There is like a single mlb.com article that addresses the costs for non lux tax teams and explicitly lists who is revenue sharing team and who isn't.

Oh my bad! I totally blanked on that with the trade.

Isn't the assumption we sign Manny though too?

Someone have Jim Thome call up Manny and tell him the walkway is called sky's the limit, that's gotta be worth like 1/8th of one of his friends on the team.

I just don't believe a professional installation would be so sloppy with the wires to and from the sign. It looks like a house fixture...maybe a restaurant.

Oh sorry. I think the connection he may have drawn is that the big neon walkway in o'hare is called "sky's the limit". I don't believe there is a neon sign anywhere saying that though, but I could be wrong! I've never been in the fancy lounges.

Screen shot. I assume if this was good someone on twitter would have shrieked by now.

I follow machado on instagram, I didn't see that. He had a neon sign that was in a bedroom/house that said skys the limit. Now it's a pic from the WBC with some Dr teammates. any of those teammates white sox now? I'll try to post it.

And where owners demand public financing for everything rather than their own money. Talk about skin in the game. Yes, more than just the mlb players union need improvements. But it's okay to talk about the mlb players union needing an improvement. Most of these guys did not come from posh backgrounds and developed an incredible skill that we all take joy from and can hope they get the spoils of that.

I was literally just reminding myself that it was just two days ago we were getting relevant info. Rowand asked why it was relevant and I made that comment. I'm sorry you disagreed with a joke.

I have no idea how you took that away from that sentence.

it was pro white sox so it was totally relevant. Non pro white sox is irrelevant because they must be mistaken.

I don't know, I think best thing for players would just be to restructure and try and get arb in year 2 and make year 6 a team option. At that point it's legitimate salary and could give them an additional year of free agency. And quite frankly I think teams would like more actual free agents too. It's not just that teams value free agents less, it's that they are just a much worse pool to build teams on then 15 years ago when players somehow aged much more gracefully (at least it felt that way!)

Man how long ago does Tuesday feel when we were actually getting relevant news?

pretty much how thome always talks sorry to say.

I know I watched a lot of 2011/12 sox baseball yet can't remember anything about Brent Morel except his head shape.

OTOH if we DO sign Machado for 200 mill that would be pretty incredible unless its like 1 year 200 million then I would say that was probably unwise.

Truly remarkable how the sox pro scouting, which seemed to be among the best in the game throughout the 00s just seemed to fall off a cliff in 2009/10

oooOOo boy Joe Panik, hold your horses everyone this markets about to explooooode