Bob Sacamano

There is definitely no deadline. Sox can wait as long as possible.

Get this shit done. If he signs for less than what all initially thought at the beginning of the off-season (what, 10/$350m?) I'll call it a win.

Anyone with sources seeing their source tomorrow? Or Sunday?

I still don't even buy the possibility of it. The first to report it was some guy from New York. How would he know anything about these negotiations? That's probably the report they're running with on the radio.

Yeah that's what I'm saying. Doesn't make sense he has to settle for that. But yeah, if they opt-out of the extension, its possible they only get him for 3-4 years or whatever.

It's like what that deal that the Japanese pitcher signed for. The team could opt for a long-term extension say after 4 years and if they don't, that triggers an opt-out a year sooner for the player.

Yeah I guess that's what it could be. I don't really understand it. Kinda crazy that he would have to settle for something like that over a guaranteed long deal.

Pretty sure its the DR hat shared earlier.

Zero. Go to sleep.

If true, they must just really not like Machado. Otherwise you could just sign him now and it just costs money.

Only thing that sucks about my current job is, I've been there 6 months.

My job kinda sucks. Possibly looking for a new one soon. Preferably in finance.

Same lol I've been so unproductive.

Pretty sure that would be the following off-season. Doesn't the current agreement end after 2021?

Oh I'm aware haha I always wait to start franchise until after those come out. I used to post over on the Operation Sports message boards as "The Left Shark." Your username here is the same as over on that site I noticed. Edit: speaking of baseball videogames, anyone ever play that Japanese game? It looks as smooth as MVP Baseball (still the smoothest defensive playing baseball game ever. MLB the Show is still a bit clunky on defense).

Don't know if anyone is a fan of the Resident Evil series, but the remake of the 2nd game looks beautiful. I love that they added so much to it (based on the demo).

Can you drink water on a hunger strike? If so, that can be doable.

Basically checks off what everyone was able to describe about it.

If they get Machado, I'll actually get The Show this year. I like playing franchise with as close to real life opening day rosters as possible (obviously, real life moves happen throughout the season and you don't want to restart) which is why I skipped last year's game lol

I had Qdoba an hour ago. I'm right there with you.

Oh damn. I overlooked him.

I'll say more if we don't. If we get him, then everyone starts posting hypothetical lineups for this year and beyond in the Harper thread.

87 members browsing currently for no news lol

C Matt Wieters/Evan Gattis 1B Marwin Gonzalez 2B Asdrubal Cabrera 3B Mike Moustakas SS Manny Machado LF Nick Markakis CF AJ Pollock RF Bryce Harper DH Evan Gattis/Adam Jones/Carlos Gonzalez/Curtis Granderson It's January 18th and you can make a good lineup out of the remaining free agents (I will admit, catcher was tough to place, hence Gattis sliding in). Edit: looking at that lineup, there are a lot of ex-O's.

Hall of Famer? Most likely, right?