Personally I'd think most people would want to wrap up their employment situation before X-Mas or New Year.  Why would he drag it on past next week?  I'd think he makes a decision this weekend.

1 minute ago, timbo8 said:

wow 90 minutes yankees that very underwelming

I feel like they don't have to sell on being a Yankee as opposed to a team like the White Sox has to. Having said that, I do think it was more due diligence on their part.

Its an entirely different meeting than the Sox. Yankees arent pitching on Machado on how they can be successful in the future, etc. Everyone already knows that about the Yankees. The meeting was likely nothing more than telling him in person what their offer is and hearing what he wants. 

90 mins is more than enough to check-the-box and sign the papers, hence why they were last. Move on Sox fans. #Hopeisnotastrategy

I mean....he could already know he wants to go there. 

Just now, shago said:

90 mins is more than enough to check-the-box and sign the papers, hence why they were last. Move on Sox fans. #Hopeisnotastrategy

They weren't last..

Just now, shago said:

90 mins is more than enough to check-the-box and sign the papers, hence why they were last. Move on Sox fans. #Hopeisnotastrategy

The awkward moment when the Yankees aren't the last team to meet with Machado.

1 minute ago, shago said:

90 mins is more than enough to check-the-box and sign the papers, hence why they were last. Move on Sox fans. #Hopeisnotastrategy

Only they aren’t last, that would be the Phillies.....

Just now, whitesoxwinner said:

I don't think that the notion of "He could know he's signing there so that's why the meeting was that short" holds a ton of merit. In that case I think they would've been there for longer discussing the contract and stuff.

Not so much that he knows he's signing there, but the Yanks situation kind of speaks for itself.

2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Personally I'd think most people would want to wrap up their employment situation before X-Mas or New Year.  Why would he drag it on past next week?  I'd think he makes a decision this weekend.

What a Christmas present that would be! Wife and family should be quite happy!

3 minutes ago, daggins said:

Not so much that he knows he's signing there, but the Yanks situation kind of speaks for itself.

If he knew he was signing there I don't think he'd want to get out of there so quickly. And if he was leaning towards the white sox after their meeting, the yankees would have some convincing to do

7 minutes ago, Soxbadger said:

Its an entirely different meeting than the Sox. Yankees arent pitching on Machado on how they can be successful in the future, etc. Everyone already knows that about the Yankees. The meeting was likely nothing more than telling him in person what their offer is and hearing what he wants. 

This exactly. He'a also much more familiar with NY, the Yankees and Yankee Stadium.

14 minutes ago, Dam8610 said:

That's a due diligence meeting. They're not really in on him. Hopefully he wants to make them pay for that, because the best way for him to do that would be in a White Sox uniform.

Or a Red So uniform.

Giving Chili the benefit of the doubt for a second & saying Machado is eager to sign, I still don’t think a deal gets done this weekend.  Best case scenario he informally selects us and then the two sides start negotiating terms.  This is not going to be a straight forward contract so I think the earliest it could get done is after Christmas but before New Years.

7 minutes ago, soxfan2014 said:

The awkward moment when the Yankees aren't the last team to meet with Machado.

Forget it, he's rollin

7 minutes ago, Saufley said:

What a Christmas present that would be! Wife and family should be quite happy!

I am going to guess he wants to get this out of the way by Christmas, hence jamming all of the meetings into this week.

 

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Giving Chili the benefit of the doubt for a second & saying Machado is eager to sign, I still don’t think a deal gets done this weekend.  Best case scenario he informally selects us and then the two sides start negotiating terms.  This is not going to be a straight forward contract so I think the earliest it could get done is after Christmas but before New Years.

id be shocked if they arent 90-95% done prior to the meetings. Everyone knew the framework the day FA started, its not hard to plug in the numbers. 

38 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Look, I have no personal gain from calling out an alleged insider, but he clearly said Machado was staying through Wednesday and that’s not the case if that tweet is true.  Honestly, I simply want to know what’s real and what’s BS and despite being one of the more optimistic posters on this board, Chili’s rumor never felt right to me.  Again, nothing personal against him, but it just doesn’t seem to jive, at least the part about spending an extra day & night in Chicago.

I hear ya. I actually forgot that he said Machado would be in town until Wednesday. I thought he just said Machado would spend Tuesday in Chicago. 

They did say that Machado is going to have to sell himself to the Yankees, while the White Sox are trying to sell the White Sox.  I'm sure 90 minutes is long enough. I know the White Sox meeting with Harper was reportedly 5 hours, but so much about the Harper meetings have turned out to be BS, maybe that was as well. 

The other thing is Hal Steinbrenner's mother just died, so he might not have been able to make the meeting. 

I wouldn't take anything out of it being 90 minutes, good or bad.

That WSD tweet seems to validate Chili's info.

Just now, Soxbadger said:

id be shocked if they arent 90-95% done prior to the meetings. Everyone knew the framework the day FA started, its not hard to plug in the numbers. 

Unfortunately it’s the last 10% of an agreement that’s usually painfully slow to iron out.  Look, I hope I’m wrong so I can get all my kids Machado jerseys for Christmas, but I’ll remain cautiously optimistic for now.

My guess is that they will finish their meeting with Philly tomorrow then tell the teams who are in it to make their best offers on Friday. A decision will be made over the weekend and White Sox fans will will get an early Christmas present on Monday evening.

1 minute ago, TheTruth05 said:

That WSD tweet seems to validate Chili's info.

Chili said he gave that info to WSD though, so now we got a bit of a chicken/egg going.  Hopefully Dave has confirmed Chili’s rumor elsewhere since then.

Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

Unfortunately it’s the last 10% of an agreement that’s usually painfully slow to iron out.  Look, I hope I’m wrong so I can get all my kids Machado jerseys for Christmas, but I’ll remain cautiously optimistic for now.

I really doubt it. Im not sure who is the one who drafts the agreement, I lean towards it being the agent. So its entirely possible the contract is completely drafted and the other clubs have already seen it weeks ago.