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I know I don't come on this board much anymore, but is there really a subset of fans that don't like Grandal? I'm so confused. He's a slam dunk top 3 catcher in the game. How is this a real thing?

I only support this if it means Andrew Vaughn is traded for a very controllably stud, like Marquez or Woodruff. And I definitely don't want to move Vaughn, but that would make it worth it

Yea, Portillos burgers are amazing

A funny/frustrating wrinkle in the pursuit for Springer is that he doesn't have any social media. It takes half of the fun out of it not being able to obsess over every tweet/like/picture posted and try to connect dots. ?

4 years would be great for Springer, but I would be shocked if he doesnt get 5 years, unless he gets an opt out in that 4 year deal. In big time FA you always have to go 1 year longer than you should to secure the deal.

Yes, but I assure you that had no impact on my Woodruff plan. ?

I was in the online checkout on Costco's website for over an hour, but didn't get one. They had issues with everyone's CVV codes on their credit cards being rejected. After trying different browsers and devices, I finally saw someone suggest signing up for Visa Checkout. I did and finally got through to the "place order" page, but as soon as I clicked it I got an error saying that the item was sold out. ? I don't really need the PS5 until The Show comes out, but if I can get one from Costco, I'm going to, because of their return policy in case these first batch systems have problems.

In the link to the full plan I have more detail about the contracts there. Colome's deal has a team option for 2nd yr with a $1M buyout. So his guaranteed is actually $7M. Quintana's is actually $24M with the $4M buyout included, and Yates is actually $8M with the $2M buyout included. I should have probably added that in that short summary, but my idea was to kick some money down the road for Jerry so he can save a few million in 2021 on those buyouts. As far as the Brewers trading Woodruff. I was honestly shocked when there was so much talk about the Brewers trading him during the season, but I just figured if they were willing to trade him 3 months ago in a playoff race, why not now? Plus, all of those players they would be getting back are either barely major league ready (Cease, Mendick) or are about to be (Stiever, Adolfo). It's not really a trade package a rebuilding team would go for anyway.

I don't know if this is where we are dumping our Off-season plans, but here is mine... https://www.southsidesox.com/2020/11/12/21563416/joey-doughnuts-2020-2021-off-season-plan The long-story short is this.... In summary: - Fire La Russa, hire Fuld - Re-sign Colome (1yr/$6M) - Sign Springer (5yr/$115M) - Sign Quintana (2yr/$20M) - Sign Yates (1yr/$6M) - Acquire Woodruff for Cease, Mendick, Stiever, Adolfo - $141M payroll

The car drives itself my guy. But yes, I'll look in to At Bat, although it would just be easier if there was an FM frequency. There appears not to be, however.

Does ESPN have an FM frequency? That would be huge for me. My car doesn't have AM, so I usually just listened to Cubs games in the car, or tried to get away watching the Sox game on my phone and jamming the phone in to the steering wheel. ??

Well what in the hell, I haven't done my offseason plan yet, but I had mentioned on Twitter that Calhoun and Kela was additions for me as well. How did so many of us target Cole Calhoun? Maybe he is this off-seasons Brandon Nimmo.

So if the current International Signing Period ends tomorrow, does that mean on October 16th we can start hearing big names announced for teams again? Is this when we should expect to hear who the Sox have signed or are "heavily favored" to sign? EDIT: Looked it up. There is a 3 month freeze essentially from Oct. 15th until Jan. 15th when the next signing period begins. Carry on.

Totally forgot Ozuna only signed a 1 year deal. I would say you really need to get one of Springer or Ozuna. Then go after a veteran SP (trade options probably), and a reliable RP like Hendricks or re-sign Colome.

I would prefer he be more the Chris Sale type than the Josh Hader type, but yea, a Hader-guy for the playoffs who can cover 2 innings every other game works for me.

Update.

Barkley and Elliott went 1 and 2. I took Edwards-Helaire.

Before we all start complaining out how bullshit our losses were, I do have a question about who I should take #3 overall tomorrow night. We are a Keeper league. 1 Keeper. 0.5 PPR. ESPN makes them count as your 1st RD pick. Also, because I'm commish and have to make sure everyone actually sets a keeper, I can pretty much tell who the Keepers are likely to be. That being said, my keeper is Dalvin Cook. So when my choice comes up at #3, based on who I am assuming will be kept and the FA pool, at #3 I should have my choice of 3 of these 5 top rated guys... Elliott Barkley Edwards-Helaire Michael Thomas Ekeler I'm thinking of ranking them in the order above. My complete lack of knowledge of Edwards-Helaire scares me, and I usually get Mahomes every year anyway, but what I'm reading about him sounds very exciting. I just feel like maybe I should take the sure thing of Elliott, Barkley, and maybe even Thomas over him.

Yup. I've been a Tesla fan since about 2008 and tried to convince my dad to buy some TSLA stock back in like 2014 or so when the stock was like $170. He didn't. But then finally sometime last year he got in when it was back down to around $190 a share, but then he got freaked out and sold it at $210. Whoops. Meanwhile, a guy I work with bought a bunch of share at like $680 recently, so he's doing really, really well right now

Bingo

There is no way Steiver and Mercedes get Lynn back when other teams are allowed to give better offers.

Until Bryant comes back, then he's just a bench player.

Kevin Gausman.

Imagine if Kane and Debrincat get going... ?