Princess Dye
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My friend used to fill Jerry Reinsdorf's prescriptions at a CVS (surprisingly he goes in and picks up in person). I could have cultivated this into source material but (1) my friend quit (2) my friend is a Cub fan and might not be enthusiastic enough (3) Jerry apparently is kind of abrupt when he goes in and not up for being bothered
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#Keucharmachad
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Just now, G&T said:
I’m lost on why a Joc Pederson deal would have to wait until Sox Fest. That’s not a sexy announcement.
We wouldn't get Joc if there wasn't a bigger deal in connection with it. Signing a major FA is our path to win-now being viable.
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2 minutes ago, Perfect Vision said:
Rosenthal tweeted only 8 hrs ago that the Dodgers weren't close to trading Pederson. There are some big hints being dropped here that a Pederson deal will be announced tomorrow, but Rosenthal doesn't usually miss like that.
Rosenthal will put out what he's given though, just like all these guys. And Dodgers may have wanted a day of hardball via rosenthal
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Hansen right now would be so titanically sell-low
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1 minute ago, Soxbadger said:
Ill answer.
The Sox likely did something. They are keeping a wrap on it for Soxfest. Its possible it leaks, but unlikely any real confirmation until tomorrow.
soxbadger while you are givin out scoopz, i'll take some chocolate then and also vanilla on top
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rabbit is it safe for me to go to bed? please look underneath as there could be monsters under there
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Bryce would be like a sea of eyeballs
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maybe we sign Shawn Kelley, beef up the reliever mix with current FA dollars, but then only send ready-now cheap young relievers to LAD for Joc. Hamilton/Fry would be the ones to catch their eye i'm sure, but if we did that, then the youth& farm is left untouched , at least re: non-relievers
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I could see the Sox having gotten into Joc with a small offer and then pulling back when other offers came in.
He fits as a lefty bat but there's basically no way we're win-now in Year 1, and OF is deep farm-wise.
I also don't know if I see the point in making trades when your payroll is low and 3 WAR players are signing for a bag of Funyuns currently
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If the Sox truly feel they have the top bid and that they waited everyone out for a closing offer, then ..yes..announcing at SoxFest makes sense. Because this franchise struggles to score top in-Chicago news attention amongst the major sports teams, and SoxFest is their time to go guns a-blazing and capture that bored third-party fan (i.e. the Blackhawks fan) who is a free agent currently with their attention up for the taking.
We don't have enough info to know just how much 'upper hand' the Sox have, but if you are open to the possibility that the Sox hold good cards, then this scenario is possible.
Signing Manny is about signing a superstar for the franchise, so PR is a part of this - don't discount it
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doing a physical with Manny is tough because you hit his knee with the little mallet, and he only kicks his leg up when he feels like it
if the doctor tells him to cough he responds 'ill cough if I want to thankya very much'
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Spoken like someone completely utterly unfamiliar with who Boras is
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JD Martinez deal is gonna be the norm til something is worked out. Agents try to create multiple bids late in the offseason.
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He only becomes "Dick Mountain" if throws 200 IP in a year
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15 minutes ago, bmags said:
Doesn’t mean I believe it. This sounds really early in process which means very likely to fall through with whatever discussed so far.
The thing with this one, though, is that Manny has to be finalized. If we don't get Manny or Bryce, it is pointless to do anything like a win-now move in the present
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The problem with Tatis wasn't that it happened. It's that the thought process took us there in a year where we weren't a "shields" away. The Cubs trading away Gleyber was the same type of situation, but it was done at a moment for max short term benefit + results. (and gleyber was way less of a lotto ticket in that moment. than tatis)
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Bush was a 33rd guy who had some special circumstances, and yeah he did well. But he is a total no one right now. We will be trading guys. This is reality. That's part of the plan, and our win-now window accelerates if we sign a major FA to a deal with player-outs.
If Bush is unreal-good, I trust our talent evaluators to not let him go. It's hard to say after Tatis, but their job is to be better than they were on that day. Whether Bush or someone else, trades will be coming, and we will have to part with some of our stash.
Either for 2019 or 2020. Depending on what the team looks like and what the division looks like in a month.
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The last Machado Thread post was an hour ago! !
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Turns out this Jason Kinander guy is actually Peggy Kusinski's son
Joc Pederson: 💤💤💤
in Pale Hose Talk
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Machado in my view is something we've all but wrapped up, because this org would be so out of line with their own history to have done the Alonso trade (not just payroll taken on, but relief given to CLE) if it wasn't a component to this.