Princess Dye

Get superstars via draft and international. Use free agency for the completion of the team with strong talent. The course is now clear and we can disabuse ourselves of all the delusion that got us here, and start anew.

No pitchforks, but this does signal that we are not serious on being anything but a Tampa type team that maybe could spend some more one day, but it's now confirmed we wont be market setters to blow away other offers. With our payroll very low we had set ourselves up for the first time to get someone elite, and it purely came down to money that we didn't. We can't pretend we didnt want him, because we acquired Dennis & Carl Wilson for DH and OF spots, to the tune of 13M of payroll. We have to be a prospect hoarding team that will then get the Lackey or maybe Lester type signings to round out a title contender........but it now is clear we will get our superstars internally or nowhere else. All I ask at this point is no more win-now trades. Just lose, lose, lose until you're out of this thing and have some more high 1st round guys stockpiled

i'm here for the long haul but just run this thing like a Tampa. Pile prospects. Know what you are. If the no-opt-outs thing is true, what were we even doing here. Dont take us there. Cespedes/Gordon - we wanted those guys. I am fine with finishing second with some reasoning behind the restraint. But when the prospects are in place, and you have the real core identified and set like the Cubs and Stros did, then you do the free agent signings (even if not high profile like this one) and you land them on the green with no questions asked. The one argument for No Manny that makes sense is that next year was not going to be a window year, and you were always going to have an opt out come into play, thus making Year 1 pointless

The players union wants guaranteed money. Period. Our 350M means nothing. we were at 250M and got outbid by 50M

I think it is right to dislike Kenny for various things he has done in the past, but as far as today, I'm basically seeing someone who looks legitimately blindsided. If he found out from a tweet while Hahn was being notified by the agent, then really what was KW even a part to, here? At all? Hahn runs things. Ownership sets financial limits.

i drove 100 miles round trip for 3 Floyds yesterday.

J Michael Robertson is an intra-bathroom-tile grunge spot.

I guess I live...near this? I've moved to near Rosemont, but i have never heard of this place...This is a Sox-centric bar of some sort, i take it?

Rosenthal is saying that the owners of the other two teams are not as convinced that Machado is worth it..as much as the Sox ownership is

Everyone and their kind grandma is misreading this Rosenthal tweet

I Am With Hector

I've often thought about why Merkin and Van Schowen etc. got fed the 7/175M info. It might be so that we can top out at 250M and have that seem like a late bump up to win, and have that be the local-news story

Padres were brought in like cousin oliver at the end of the show's run. Manufactured to help Lozano save face. Goodnight, team

Hector's tweet is a good thing

'deferral' of course in German translates to 'a whale's vagina'

We've never seen Jerry with total (future) payroll this low. We've always been trying to win year to year with future payroll already spoken for. And Sox have had big payrolls before, the only difference this time is we'll commit a big percentage of that to one player

my buddy found Frank Thomas Jr.'s boarding pass left behind once in the airport and gave it to me since I'm a big fan. It was Las Vegas>Chicago travel

Padres rumors phrasing suggest they have to do creative structuring.

Machado to Sox finally reaching its destination point. Bout time

There's nothing more deflating than reading these twitter posts here and then checking the follower count and they have less than Me

interestingly, in spanish he makes it sound like it's 'mannys preference' but in english he's listing it as 'order of highest offer to least' Lost In Translation, etc.