Princess Dye

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'

Spoken like someone completely utterly unfamiliar with who Boras is

JD Martinez deal is gonna be the norm til something is worked out. Agents try to create multiple bids late in the offseason.

He only becomes "Dick Mountain" if throws 200 IP in a year

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

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)

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.

The last Machado Thread post was an hour ago! !

Turns out this Jason Kinander guy is actually Peggy Kusinski's son

Palka in the field takes every iota of value his offense gives, maybe even more.

A few FutureSox / Loop Sports people seem to be suggesting this could be true. I don't know if that is worth more than bupkis, but in theory they could have seen some LA scouts etc since they follow the prospects. Who knows

don't know what to believe on a joc Pederson rumor, but it DOES make sense that if we're close on Manny ...that we'd do some component win-now moves. The major league level OF is just a diarrhea laden lava pit.

Swisher was like a walking club dub for the 162. Check out how good that played

"Dat Delmonico is gonna be sellin steaks in a week - why interview him my frends" EDIT: sorry, "innerview"

if the phillies sign moustakas they really will be coming thru on the 'stupid money' pledge

but to quote Vanilla Ice 'there's that little bitty ting' there though

my wife asked do I want to come see a shitty version of the movie JFK I say 'no I already am in a message board that has that'

The staff rolled the dumpsters on through the Palmer House and someone got on a mic and declared "Ladies and gentlemen, you will see to your left the dumpster rolling through this great hall. Inside this dumpster is none other than your NEW CLOSER BILLY KOCH!!!!" And out he came, to mass cheers

jerry is strong in the owners' community and he has declared 'this is my time' lol so all these teams he has a good relationship with are steering a little clear jerry is most noticeable in moments when owners are banded together, it seems