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So the thing that will be so nervewrecking and I've posted it before is the dodgers and yanks appear to be in a position where they will let white sox/phils set the market for them, and then their agents will come back to them, and if they just match it they probably win. They don't have to be aggressive despite having the most resources and that's really annoying for the game.

The value I used to place in this stuff died with Jimmy Rollins.

peavy please try to use the quote feature (see the quote text under each post) that you are responding to, and try to pull in all of your thoughts into a post instead of ten in a row. It's really hard to follow any thread when you separate everything.

It really depends on how short term the thinking is on "the right direction". With Dunn, Portis and Lauri back he has improved the Bulls win percentage up to .333. To do so, he has developed the most antiquated offense in the league that will stunt the development of it's developing star PF and offense of its promising star C. It plays into all of the worst tendencies of it's PG and SG. It is a style that no top 30 player short of demar derozan would want to play in. And it may eke out just enough victories to pull bulls into the 6-8 range of draft. The Bulls clownshow front office culture has ensured no big FA signings will occur, and may also ensure a worse chance at getting a big time, franchise changing draft pick.

Sorry, I did not stop to think what end of GM tenure meant. That makes sense.

I still think the Pads trade for him.

My predictions: - Bryce Harper will get a record setting contract - Manny Machado will not Both will get more AAV than Stanton however. I am not even quite sure that Machado will clear 300. I'd put it at like 50/50. If this ages poorly please delete forum.

But having his brother in law is equivalent to 75 and sunny so we are doing good.

That is the worst name for an American I’ve ever seen.

I’m not selling Bears short that is just a uniquely good home field. If it was neutral field I’d still take bears.

The Bears won brought the high school emotions out of me. At the gym this morning I was getting irrationally angry at ESPN for showing like a 15 minute highlight package of pats/Steelers instead of leading with bears packers. More like eagles Steelers Pats network amirite

I don’t think any team will be able to beat the saints in the dome unfortunately. They have a great path to a Super Bowl with HFA this year

I don’t trust anyone that has a rational opinion in the first 8 hours after a 20 point meltdown.

Man this felt better than I could have anticipated.

I mean, it would be pretty disrespectful to say “yeah Alonso is really just here to entice his brother in law”, so I’m not really expecting Hahn to slight Alonso by doing that and then meeting with manny.

The time frame for that seems so optimistic. I have a hard time believing he’ll only miss a week when he’s in a walking boot.

Are we sure Alonso isn’t the runner up to the Nelson Cruz rumors?

Who is that?

I really don’t think either will hit the 40/year threshold.

You aren’t going to win the argument that it will be difficult to limit a DH only (for us) player to 500 ABs. He signed the contract. He knows what’s up.

We got him for next to nothing because we took in his full contract. Yankees wouldn’t want to add unnecessary salary.

Really good pull.

Right I think it’s basically they like manny a lot short term but, not long term, so it may very well work out if those priorities align. But The obnoxious thing about dodgers and Yankees for these players is the parties want them to be involved, but they can pretty much hang back and see where things move and then if they decide to match they can win any bid. They do not need to be aggressive and that’s infuriating with their resources.

My sense on Yankees and Manny is it’s very much like the Stanton acquisition. “Well if he’s interested we should do our due diligence and try to make it work but if not, no big deal.” I don’t sense a drive that they must sign him.

Um, the Sox continuing to bring in bad players instead of good ones is it a good sign that they will bring in good ones in the future, and pointing that out is not “freaking out” and nobody claimed posting on a message board is going to improve the rebuild.