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QUOTE (jphat007 @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 04:09 PM) I haven't felt this bad about the team in 10+ yeras. I don't even know that it is rational. Maybe it's just because I feel like this is the Twins best team in awhile. I just don't have a good feeling. Twins pitching has a lot to prove, as does our OBP. It should not be a runaway year for any of the big three in the division.

From the Tigers perspective theyre calling Damon's bluff which is probably "I will go to the White Sox if the difference is this little"

Reminiscent of how things stayed cordial with Peavy and eventually it all worked out in the end. KW perhaps has learned after his series of blowups (pre-2007 for the most part)

I would expect JD to sign with his favorite team in a few hours. Cant drag any further with this kind of lost leverage for Boras.

Older players who have won seem to go to the winning situation. Not to say we're miles ahead of Detroit but I think the staff and the veteran lineup has to be attractive to him.

This signing would sell so many newly printed up jerseys. Remember that they're a brand new jersey option, which is key. This coming year, you cant sell a Beckham jersey to a diehard fan that already has one. You can sell that person a Damon jersey. Kind of how Derrick Rose is amongst the NBA leaders in jersey sales this last year. He's starting to trump the Wades etc because everyone has that one already. Gotta do it, even from monetary perspective. It's worth a premium price

See, with situations like A-Rod or Teixeira, I find it hard to put all that on an agent. No one forced the buying team to pay that much. They wanted to do it, could do it, and did it. The big spenders in the league bid on these guys. One team won out. If there's a problem with the system, you change the system. You dont sit there and just expect all the agents to change their way of doing business. Plus, Teixeira was getting competing offers from BOS, no?

QUOTE (shakes @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) Yep. All information is coming from Boras. Not a word has been leaked from the Sox or Tigers. I honestly still don't believe anything that has been uttered. It's all Scott Boras creation. Heyman is his mouthpiece and Rosenthal isn't far behind. It's not coincidence that all the info is coming from them. It's a shame because those two are otherwise pretty reliable journalists. No reason to doubt their reliability now. At least no more reason than at any other time. Just like any news leaks, regardless of who its coming from, we can probably assume some correct info and some incorrect. Boras isnt that different from any other forceful agent. He has the big name clients and has happened to be the guy setting the bar high on a few occasions. I'm sure he leaks this and that, but his methods are thought only thought of as more cutthroat just because he seems to have a lot of the league's talent in his clientele. Negotiate and leak news certain ways...that's pretty much what an agent ...does. Every time their client's looking for work.

The problem is Hawk probably spent the whole day talking about how much more he'd prefer Carlos Gomez or Russell Branyan

It could also be they're giving CWS every last opportunity to up their offer since they're his #1 choice

I think if JR gets involved, we may see a raise in price. It has been said that JR recently screwed things up with Doug Collins and Mike D'Antoni... but from what I understand those were situations with their own specific nuances. He obviously got it done getting personally involved in the Ben Wallace thing.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 11:15 PM) I'm going to be eaten alive for this: Swish. He's one of my favorite ball players, i love his personality, i love his approach to the game, i thought he was railroaded out of town by Ozzie, we got nothing back for him. and one year does not a bad player make. The thought crossed my mind. If we really arent concerned with contracts..then he's up there. Has to be, even just in the sense that he could be moved for something better later on once back to career levels

Ah ok. Scary to think about but I hope I dont have to say Carlos Lee.

It doesnt sound like you're talking about reversing-trades, but just taking back one guy. So if that's the case, Chris Carter

If the goal for Damon is next year's FA market, Detroit is not the place to be for one year. We have that and the personal connections going for us.

Damen I think you mean. There's a Thome street, though I think it's tiny. At least I can only remember seeing it one place, around 5800 N Ridge or so.

Boras plays hardball with his prime guys, but isnt there some precedent for him taking his lowered-value guys and having em sign one-year just-OK deals? Hope we dont get sunk by not having an OF spot for him...

Well he said something he shouldntve blurted out apparently... ...i mean, how do you just erroneously report something that huge? Heh, for me it was but one minute of excitement. Thanks to Bulls rumors etc.

Location almost always ends up being an afterthought in these things.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Feb 15, 2010 -> 09:59 PM) If Kenny wasn't interested he'd waste zero time making that public so as to undermine Boras' leverage. Isnt it good for us to make Detroit pay more though? Puts pressure on them to not be able to do something else farther down the line.

I'm hoping this was the last shot in the dark before we get Branyan. Then plop him in a DH platoon and use Kotsay where he's best..as your best bat off the bench.

I'm sure it's been said, but I bet there's a hilarious situation going on here... where Boras is telling Detroit they have to up their offer b/c the Sox are offering $5M Meanwhile the Sox arent really offering it at all (but staying mum intentionally), and DET is trying to just wait out Boras to finally drop the demands considerably. I suppose a small victory here could be the Sox sort of working with Boras on something positive, albeit a mere extra monetary straining of DET.

The Thome thing took the wind out of people's sails, based on his big name and the place he ended up. That will pass and we have a couple guys who can wipe out thoughts of that with an above-average offensive year.

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Feb 14, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) As for Starlin Castro and the Cubs, they have always overhyped their prospects. I remember a Pat Cline who was supposedly going to be Johnny Bench II

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/har...hFTgum5iQZtcM/3