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Hahn mentioned " next few weeks" regarding big spending possibilities coming to fruition or not. Looks like the agents want a last minute flurry in hopes of piling bids.

If the Padres blew him away with an offer this morning, we'd have the signing report out there. I still have us in the drivers' seat.

Someone told Alonso to clam up. That may be a good thing from our perspective.

He gabbed and gabbed and gabbed before he met in person the guys Manny would be replacing lol

it being 'progress that we're at the table' is truth. We may hate the optics of that but the core reality is that we're more involved in this fight for the FAs and that is a good thing, not a bad thing. if a listener of that is more of a 'wake me when it's done' person, then great, and social media/message boards are not the ideal medium perhaps for that person, but it is valid to feel that way

Jerry would be more stressed by NYY or LAD being very involved on this. Today's news is the same as when we heard there's a mystery team. And when we intuited (intelligently!) that several teams want one of the best players in the game, not just Chicago. Today's news doesn't matter if we still are the team with the money

Lozano spreads this on SoxFest day to put egg on Jerry's face and try to pry another bump in pay out of him

People made a big deal about Trubisky being announced a Bear while Mike Glennon was doing a team event. I feel there's a little shade of that with this, where Tim A. would be there and it'd put a lot of mics in his face and make it uncomfortable Tim will be 2019 ss but in a year's time thereafter, one doesn't likely see Madrigal, Yoan, Manny out of that IF, and Manny is the only ss. Meanwhile OF is also stocked for 2020, in theory

Padres??

My friend's friend went to the ST holder thing and met Palka. Told Palka: "Don't worry, I wont ask you about Machado" and Palka responds "PHEW. THANKS"

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.

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

#Keucharmachad

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.

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

Hansen right now would be so titanically sell-low

soxbadger while you are givin out scoopz, i'll take some chocolate then and also vanilla on top

rabbit is it safe for me to go to bed? please look underneath as there could be monsters under there

Bryce would be like a sea of eyeballs

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

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

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

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'