smellysox

Or at least the bulls/sox academy.

Agreed

Cleveland may be talking to LA about Kluber though. Could be alot more than Joc. Or a completely different package all together.

Fair point, but only 2 years of control? The Padres have been trying for assurances of an extension.

Yes, and probably overdue for a vacation by the looks of it?! Lol

Well of course Hahn thinks the fans will be "fine" if we dont get Manny. Because we're signing Harper!

Those 3 or 4 moves he was talking about over the weekend I really feel is contingent on Manny. Free agency and trades. No Manny - no moves.

Yeah have to agree. You could even make an argument that Shields was/is better than Nova.

Idk, I kinda like our park. It's definitely better than when they first opened it.

What if by a small chance this isn't fake. And you're right the culprit is someone from this message board. But it's one of the few with a source. And did the burner account to protect the source and They're identity. It almost seemed very familiar. The way they wrote it. The eyeballs again. They may even be lurking to see if we can figure it out.

It does seem like the game is starting to pass him by.

Me too. Maybe Sanchez

Did he really say that? That's encouraging. I heard about the 3 or 4 moves just missed the progress part.

Yeah I agree. Right now I think it's all about the opt outs. Hahn even said this weekend that its more than the financial considerations.

And then those 2 facing Nova. Not pretty.

Wouldn't that be a kick in the junk! And wait till the interleague games against them. What fun.

Yeah but They're going to have to shell out alot of money to their young core of pitchers soon.

So did we ever find out what the eyeballs were for that chili and WSD posted Thursday night? I know it's not Manny related and nothing happened at Soxfest, obviously. Just wondering.

I would too. Except nobody could understand him. No offense to all of my Venezuelan friends.

I agree. I know the padres have always said that they had no knowledge of anything being wrong with shields. Also know the league office couldn't find anything with Shields. I just find it mighty suspicious- especially when they carried 2 sets of medicals on other players. I don't want to beat a dead horse. And I know it has been discussed at length here. At the time of the investigation, I always hoped the league would have found San Diego guilty. And the commissioner ordered Tatis back to Chicago. I know, what a pipe dream. But could you imagine Tatis, Eloy, Robert, and Moncada! That would be fun!

That I do believe.

Plus I'm not buying that it's happening this weekend. Didn't Hahn say a couple of times last night that a decision would probably be in a couple of weeks by Manny?

I hope not. We've got so many arms in the bullpen. Unless we're trading some of these guys for Pederson.

I'm sure the Sox would've wanted to do that too. The problem is the Sox could've offered 10/350 or whatever the magic # is for Lozano and there still would not be an agreement. He would wait and see if others would top or match it. I mean, that's his job to try and get the most money for his client. This is how the baseball offseasons are going to go from now on. FA's holding out until spring training.

What scares me about this is that rumor a couple of weeks back where the Sox FO is split on the value of Manny. Kenny thinks he is more valuable - Jerry doesn't. Now Jerry is negotiating. I believe it came from one of those posters who claimed they had a "sauce."