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Machado signs with Padres 10/300

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Just now, Peacock Wrestler said:

I'm not too worried about it yet.  A lot can change between then and now.   We'll see how this free agency winds up as well as contract extensions.     

This sport has alot of issues and there really needs to be a work stoppage. 

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Just now, daggins said:

Probably more like "We'll get back to you". More teams in the bidding is better for them.

Ok, and then what happens when they get back to them?  Probably the same conversation that I joked about.

2 minutes ago, Baron said:

No way baseball is played during the 2021 season...no freaking way. 

Do I have this wrong or since the CBA ends in December they would strike while trying to negotiate a new one during 2022?

2 minutes ago, mqr said:

Do I have this wrong or since the CBA ends in December they would strike while trying to negotiate a new one during 2022?

I believe your right after a quick read. Seems it runs through the 2021 season. 

Just now, Baron said:

This sport has alot of issues and there really needs to be a work stoppage. 

True, but both parties know when the CBA is finished.  They'll start talks in negotiations before that and hopefully work the majority of issues out.  Owners won't want to lose revenue, and players won't want to lose their salaries.   Owners and players both know whats at stake and would try to avoid that at all costs.  

24 minutes ago, Dam8610 said:

That would increase a lot of payrolls in MLB by a lot.

Also will never happen. Clevelandcan't go that high and they 're a contender. Oakland, Pittsburgh and on and on can't touch that. Sox highest payroll so far is way under that figure.

1 minute ago, Baron said:

No way baseball is played during the 2021 season...no freaking way. 

I survived the '94 strike but I don't know if I have it in me to survive another. At least I have the Cougars and the Boomers near by.

Maybe the agent wants to play the “White Sox cheap” card to the fans so they are more inclined to go a little overboard to make sure the deal gets done. 

 

Hector Gomez saying that when the signing is official, we'll know which source was correct.

He seems pretty confident to me. 

20 minutes ago, Roughneck said:

 

My eyes rolled so hard I went blind for about 30 seconds. The mass of MLB players aren't going to vote to go on strike and lose their own salaries during their limited earning window just because Manny can only buy 17 palaces and not 30.

 

Also, this report is puzzling, but clearly false. Rabbit, WSD, Bucket, other people with sources have said continually that the Sox are offering BIG money here. This report wouldn't have qualified as huge money since like 1999. Every day we get another false report, yet people keep going nuts over them. Y'all just looking for reasons to be mad.

 

Even if it's true it's the best offer out there. Why is it criminally low as some have said if no one has beat it so far ?

Just now, Jose Abreu said:

 

Hector Gomez saying that when the signing is official, we'll know which source was correct.

He seems pretty confident to me. 

Sounds pretty ‘Dan Clark-y’ to me

36 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

Dude the Bulls have turned me off from the NBA. I can't enjoy it if the Bulls aren't at least decent. The Incompetence at the Berto Center is the only reason why this scenario is actually plausible. 

I can't stand to watch that team anymore!

2 minutes ago, mqr said:

Maybe the agent wants to play the “White Sox cheap” card to the fans so they are more inclined to go a little overboard to make sure the deal gets done. 

No one gives a rat's ass about the fans. Fans have no influence in the process whatsoever.

Just now, mqr said:

Sounds pretty ‘Dan Clark-y’ to me

This 7/175 offer leak might just be agent BS in an attempt to get other teams interested in bidding. I have to imagine the Sox would go much higher

Like others have said, this isn’t being cheap if it’s the best offer.

When we went to sell our old house, one of our neighbor’s sisters came to us before hitting the market and offered $50K less than we were going to ask for. We went to market, we’re offered $10K over asking price, called her back to see if she was still interested, and she said no.

Hahn is the sister. No harm trying to save some money, certainly when there’s nothing better out there. But if the big offer does come for Manny like it did for us, Hahn better stop acting like the sister and get it done.

The Bulls are a different story....I think I hate Boylen more than I hated Marc Trestman. 

1 minute ago, mqr said:

Sounds pretty ‘Dan Clark-y’ to me

Yeah it does, but Hector Gómez is much more respected by reputable people like Rosenthal. He also has gotten things right before unlike Clark.

New to this chat but strongly feel this:

Rick Hahn, Kenny Williams, and JR are not idiots, Rick and Kenny have been planning on making this move for the last 2 years or else they wouldn’t have gone through this rebuild. If a team outbids the Sox’s $175 mil offer, cool then add more to your offer which I know they will do. The Sox are sitting very pretty and a lot of that has to do with not only the offer but Alonso and Jay being on the team. The Sox are going to get a deal done because they want him badly but are not going to outbid themselves. The Yankees talk is BS and the Manny doesn’t want to go to Philly neither does Bryce but slim pickings. 

I'm more inclined to trust Passan/Gomez than the Levine's and Bob Nightengale's of the world.

i wish many of you would redirect your efforts to twitter and start calling out the b.s. that the media is putting out there instead of posting 332 pages of nothing on this board. 

 

hrmph. ?

2 minutes ago, Baron said:

The Bulls are a different story....I think I hate Boylen more than I hated Marc Trestman. 

Shut up and run windsprints!  ?

2 minutes ago, Baron said:

The Bulls are a different story....I think I hate Boylen more than I hated Marc Trestman. 

Boylen is absolutely awful. The day the bulls fired Fred is the day I stopped caring...they are way worse with him than with Fred

 

Just now, peppers312 said:

i wish many of you would redirect your efforts to twitter and start calling out the b.s. that the media is putting out there instead of posting 332 pages of nothing on this board. 

 

hrmph. ?

I'm fairly sure we do both

I wish Passan would either double down or take back what he said and really make this interesting 

Just now, Orlando said:

I wish Passan would either double down or take back what he said and really make this interesting 

Gomez doubling down on it (twice today, actually) is just as meaningful to me

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