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At this point, I’d be shocked if Machado didn’t come to an agreement with us or the Phillies in the next 24 hours.

I think it’s just a reference to a Biggie song unfortunately.

Unfortunately there’s a limit to how much Skyline chili one can ingest.

I don’t buy that and honestly when it comes down to the wire, offers can radically change. I wouldn’t rule out anything with the Phillies. Just got to hope adding all of Machado’s buddies forces his agent to give us a right to match anything at the end.

It definitely does seem with the “Phillies are getting serious” hear today that what you’re saying could be accurate.

What was that again?

No, we need to get to 200 pages.

I think a ceiling would be around 10/$326M, but given where things have been rumored to stand I think hitting the $300M mark gets a deal done. That’s an amount any agent could feel proud of even if it’s not record breaking.

I will be glued to my phone the whole night. This is what we’ve been waiting for the past few months.

Up Down to two teams, this is when things move fast and the serious offers come out. I still think he ends up around 10/$300 and pray that team is us.

I give you mad props for this!

Still comes down to money though, can’t be afford to be overly frugal right now.

Here we go!!! Kids going to bed at 5:30pm tonight!

The problem is if Manny picks the Yankees, he’ll con his way around it.

He’s certainty pretending that’s not the case. He maintains his position in a recent mailbag post on his blog.

Lol...do you want this to end?!

Alright, I really truly believe Manny will make his decision once we get to 200 pages. Unfortunately with peavy44 suddenly MIA, that might take another couple of weeks.

Why would the Braves want Machado after signing Donladson and also having Camargo, Swanson and even Riley in the upper minors?

Really seems like Machado’s agent is waiting for a team to blink. Honestly, if we’re already at 7/$245M or so (purely my speculation), I say just go 10/$300M and be done with it. Make those last three years worth $20M, $20M, & $15M respectively. Who really cares about the $55M eight years from now and it potentially reduces our luxury tax burden during our comeptive window.

Is there a specific tweet you’re referring to? I’m not seeing much smoke there.

What smoke?

I don’t mean to be rude, but SoxFest will have no bearing on a transaction of this magnitude. And if we do in fact land Manchado, he will be the sole focus of the press conference.

Seems like there’s a pattern here.

Wetbutt leaked the Quintana trade the night before and it officially broke around 10:00am or so that next day IIRC. HidingInYourMomsRoom claimed last night a deal should be announced today. If you don’t believe in coincidences, this could be announced before lunch.

Zero reason to believe Simonetti IMO.