Bob Sacamano

None of those guys are blocking Bryce fucking Harper.

Yep. Just like there was no chance the financially troubled Padres could sign Machado.

It would also say something about the Royals and then list 10 random names.

I was saying my preference for this year would be Palka DHing. Obviously, that cant happen.

No not really. But now they don't have Machado, I'd rather see Palka mainly DH and maybe give at bats to someone else from the minors or maybe a sign and flip type of player. I mean, I guess that guy could be Alonso. Let's just hope he hits enough to deal.

I mean, in a year like 2019 is going to be, I'd rather he DH'd every day than Alonso while having someone else play the OF.

Oh yeah I remember that. Thanks.

Where did he say that?

Even if they are "in", would you expect them be able to land him?

I appreciate that.

If some of us want to complain about it in the Machado thread, then cool. If you don't want to read it, don't go in there if you don't want to vent about this dog shit front office anymore.

Son of a b**** lol

I'm in the process of looking for a house so when I finally close on one, there is likely to be work done whether it be replacing floors, painting, etc so that will be a nice, rewarding project.

Right. It's tough to grade 2 (about to start a 3) years in. The grade may decrease this time next year or it may stay the same, however.

Honestly, it's not a bad idea. This is my plan. I'm not even excited for baseball this year which is fucked up considering it's always been my number one hobby (playing and watching). Oh well, at least I still have a couple summer league teams to play on.

Right. You would think he would say: "we have an offer of $300 mill in hand. Will you match or beat that?" Then Sox decide if he is bluffing, and he takes the money.

They're not and that's not the whole point of signing one of these guys. With the current roster, no they are not. But prospects will come up and the current guys should make some positive strides and then you suddenly have great, cheap options around the rest of the team to go along with a Machado or Harper.

Well, let's hope we can bust it out.

Completely reasonable to believe Collins won't improve behind the plate, honestly.

Well he didn't say he isn't a fan. And he's not spending money being on this site.

Jesus that's the only way this whole thing could have been worse. Trade anything for a year of him and then he signs with Padres in free agency lol

We've literally written him into our fantasy lineups the last 2 years basically. But that's all it turned out to be: a fantasy.

The 10/$300 mill prediction was even on the lower end of what everyone thought.

That's 100% what happened or why there was even thought they would get both. We were all saying they would have to pay about $650 mill to land both which looks pretty accurate. They thought they were going to get both on below value deals. Very sad honestly.

Hopefully done adding. Don't really want Keuchel nor Kimbrel on short term deals (giving up draft picks) without Machado.