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WAS BUCKET HERE?!

Dave says he thinks Machado is signing within the next 5 days and with the Sox. https://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/white-sox-make-formal-offer-to-manny-machado-per-bob-nightengale

Here we go!

Yes he did. He said the person thinks he's signing with the Sox. The exact quote is "Oh and by the way I talked to somebody today who is very close to Machado and they think he is signing with the White Sox."

He copied and pasted the guys bio.

Rock doesn't have a source anymore. Anyone seen bucket here anymore?

This is a probably a plant by the Sox after the Passan stuff which was clearly designed to get teams to up the years in offers.

Oh FFS I hate this franchise.

Yeah, but honestly if he went back to the Nats I would not be that upset.

Think he means Machado's childhood team.

The Sox knew they had a better shot at Machado. Brian said they don’t like they’re chances with Harper. Then they traded for his damn brother in law which in hindsight if and when Manny signs elsewhere is going to look really bad. I don’t think they have a chance at all with Harper.

Machado was a much easier target for the Sox. It's extremely unlikely he's coming here.

There's too much Machado Yankee stuff. This dude is going to be a Yankee.

Kris Bryant is Adidas baseball's marketing partner.

The A’s are good every once in awhile. They’re more like the Mariners.

I think the worry here is specifically teams like the Cubs who may at some point have so much money that they’re just not going to care about the tax.

I think the League and PA is going to have to agree to something harsher if they want to bring parity to the league. Interest in baseball is dropping quickly and if the big market teams are the only ones signing FAs then baseball is going to become more niche than it already is. The elite talent cant keep going to the same 4 or so destinations, it will damn the game. On the flip side I saw there's 200 or so FA still out there and not many teams interested. So they're going to need to do something about the tanking as well. The draft pick compensation probably needs to change significantly.

The Giants apparently. I don’t understand it, a Schwarber package is not at all worth it for Heyward.

Move the franchise. We’re done in Chicago.

I hate everything.

Thats the problem. There's the belief that players just don't want to come here and the team's reputation is not good. It needs to change and quickly.

It's going to be ridiculous. Fans are going to be irrational and eviscerate Hahn for not getting either of these guys. Doesn't matter if they offered good money. There are fans that won't believe it.

They're probably working to confirm.

No, I don't think Philips has any sources or anything. This is just his read on whats going on publicly.