Mr. Showtime

Not sure if you've watched his last few youtube videos but Simonetti said he has heard but cannot confirm rumors of the Yankees at 7-8 years 250 million. No idea how true or not that is, but, you'd have to think the Sox offered or will offer more than that. To your point if the Sox are at 275 or 300 and he turns it down for 250 then probably not a good look for the team.

Interesting line in the article where he says neither player prefers Philadelphia and wanted the Yankees. We heard the lack of interest in Philadelphia from Harper supposedly but, this is news from Machado isnt it? If Philly offers way more money I'm sure he'll get over it but, very interesting if true on Manny.

He later linked to the video of the comments being said on the YES Network. At the end of the video Jack said the Yankees have not "officially" made an offer.

I saw that tweet this morning. I didn't quite get it. When else have the Sox come up this much with the national guys? What do they gain by pumping up the Sox chances? Especially when they bring up the Sox and reporters basically scoff at them in the running. If the Red Sox/Cubs were heavily in on Harper ESPN would be wall to wall with it what would Buster be doing then?

Why do you think we haven't heard more rumors about the Phillies and Harper? I know there was the rumor he didn't want to play there. Clearly we're focused on the Sox here, and the Dodgers talk is big on Twitter. Seems like it's been quiet with them on Harper at least.

That's a funny take on the situation.

You beat Fathom to one of these twitter/blogger type rumors. I know most of the time its people guessing. Sometimes people get it right and perhaps this is one of those times. Just strikes me as odd that a deal of this magnitude would leak as there have been a few similar rumors recently like this, to low level people like this without any of the big guys snooping and commenting on it.

Who knows what's really true or not with "sources" these days. It's going to take a record breaker to get one of these guys. Beyond that given where the team has finished the last few years they have to understand that they'll be expected to outbid teams to get players to come.

Just tossing it out as a theory, always appreciate your takes.

If this in anyway gives the Sox a leg up on Manny, do you think the Yankees change their tune and offer him a bigger contract in years or total dollars? You made the comment about Hahn talking to his agent about this move. In theory, could this be using the Sox to make the Yankees pay out more if that's his preferred spot if the money is close?

In the responses the account said it was heard on mlb network. Who knows.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 11:14 AM) iit all depends on whether they truly intend to compete and can put together a roster where you can really don't have to say everything has to go right for the team to win. I do think LDF is accurate when he states the team never seems to be fully committed all in any year. They are at a certain price, but it doesn't appear they would be willing to take on a huge loss if things went wrong. That's fine, it is a business., and these days you don't have to win 98 games to make the playoffs most seasons. Trading those guys is dangerous, and I think the extra year and an alternative to spending $200 million, should make their price tags around peak right now. If the Sox are bad again in 2016, and then they trade these guys, JR needs to clean house. I saw what he said this morning. JP brought up the idea that they could move Sale or Q, the hosts disagreed that the Sox should do that. JP asked them if they could see the Sox competing with the Royals in the next 2 years, and if that answer is no then they should be open to it. He followed that up by saying that haul wise they may be best to wait one more year because the next free agent class is light on top flight starters.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 15, 2015 -> 09:40 PM) Watched 6 episodes of Legends House this week. Good stuff, can't believe it took me this long. Mean Gene makes the whole show. Especially his gawking at Ashley when she comes over.

QUOTE (Brian @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 12:36 PM) Had to drive my dad's car from airport so no Sirius. Tried the Game and I don't think the sports anchor jobs are too hard but Kap and Haugh have some girl and she's really awful. They let her interject sometimes and it's brutal. She must be hot cuz no way she should be on a major shift. I only know who she is because I saw the show on tv last week. Here is her twitter: https://twitter.com/BrookeWeisbrod

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 24, 2014 -> 02:21 PM) Honest question, why isnt there a NHL franchise in Wisconsin? It would seem to me that would be a good place to have one, they are pretty hockey crazy Bill Wirtz blocked any talk of that way back in the day. Now, why nothing has happened in the last 2 decades? Can't explain that. Google "Bill Wirtz Wisconsin NHL".

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 13, 2014 -> 10:11 AM) Abreu is going all in on trying to eat that baseball. I really wasn't able to find all that many great looking images of him that weren't from ST or his initial press conference. I'm guessing there are better ones out there that could've been used but, I wasn't able to find them myself.

The quotes that I saw on twitter made it seem like Robin said he was the closer today. Like some kind of committee or matchup based thing, but that might've been one person not explaining what Robin said correctly.

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Mar 31, 2014 -> 10:31 AM) Eaton-8 Semien-4 Gillaspie-5 Abreu-3 Dunn-DH Garcia-9 De Aza-7 Ramirez-6 Flowers-2 Sale-P So you have L-R all the way down till you hit Ramirez and Flowers.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 05:19 PM) GTA 5 is the f***ing s***. I bought the game a few weeks ago, I think I'm like 40% of the way into the storyline. There's a lot of flying missions in this game that are pretty fun once you get the hang of the control system. I do like the missions (only a few I've seen so far) where you get to use Chop. I like the little side missions where you are driving along and the red dot pops up on the screen and it's a robbery or someone needs help type mission.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) No, there is only one basic console for $399. Anything above that would be add ons (extra controller, a game, a PSN membership) or someone trying to make a profit. OH~! Good thing I asked before spending way more then I need to

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 12:31 AM) It's one of the best games of the last generation. A must-buy for sure. And they will be *fingers crossed* be adding Heists to the online gameplay within the next month, so that will revive a lot of fans most likely. I saw a ton of great reviews about it online. From the video's I saw it does look like a fun game. For the longest time I just played GTA 4 without doing the missions and just causing havoc. I really enjoyed the story and seeing what happened to Niko and Roman in that game.

What is the story on the price ranges for PS4? I've seen between $350-$600, I assume the difference in price is just the amount of memory space each system has? I only really plan on buying/playing a handful of games. So I assume I'd be cool with just the lower tier price. I assume you need the larger memory if you are buying/downloading games from the PS Network?

Does anyone have the latest Grand Theft Auto? I know I'm like 3 years behind here but I just recently got through GTA 4 Liberty City, is the new one worth getting? I only have PS3, saving up to buy the PS4 but probably won't be getting it till later in the year.

Thanks everyone glad you like it.

No calls for Ed Farmer? Rick Hahn? I've been working on something but my real job has gotten in the way. My laptop at home is old and slow so I try to not use it often.