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Jerry is running the show because this is his job. He is overseeing the single biggest investment in the history of his company, and the guy who signs the check. There is literally no one in the entire organization more qualified and able to do this.

I promise he didn't just get involved. He has been involved since day 1 on something like this.

This is where I have to disagree. If we are talking about a $200-$300 million expenditure, this is something that is being done at the ownership level. JR might not be engaged in all of the detail work of the actual negotiations, but you can bet that everything is getting filtered and fed through him before it goes out to MM's team.

Maybe if Manny was still 19...

Awesome!

PUT YO MOTHAF@#IN NAME ON THE MOTHAF@#$IN CONTRACT NOW b****!

As a rule of thumb no one really KNOWS what is real and what is BS. Even the reputable guys have masters they serve, and is getting their information fed to them by people with agendas.

Actually he was the only guy who really made the argument without any hindsight. He was destroyed by Soxtalk at that moment in time, and time proved us all right.

This is Bruce Levine summed up in his own words.

I feel like it is a negotiation tactic. I don't see a real scenario coming into this winter where they thought it was a realistic offer, but as things have developed they are looking at this as an opportunity to land their whale, and still leave themselves a maximum amount of payroll flexibility in the future.

I have zero idea, but I imagine that is something that would be settled during the strike, kind of like backpay in a government shutdown.

It will be interesting to see if these last couple of off seasons change some minds on early extensions on the players side of things, or if they feel like they are just going to wait until the strike in a few years.

You would be really accurate.

You'll have to be more specific.

Give me this new Porsche for 20k now, take it or leave it. No. Oh.

Obviously.

Did you just wiki Dr. Emmett Brown? Oh Caulfield, never change.

Ha, look for the blue check mark, fake account;)

No.

2 pages last night? The overnight crowd is slacking.

Official offer, sure.

100%.

Yet here you are.