Agents wait to find your weakness then exploit it ruthlessly. You have to make it clear that you are not his victim but an earnest suitor. If your money is good the phone will be ringing.
Fair enough. You have to start out accepting that you cannot force someone to sign. Let the agent know when he is done trying to gin up the market you are ready to sit down and talk. Only leverage is to let it be known you have a Plan B.
It's a terrible unfair comment. You can't appease an irrational agent by throwing money at him. Your only control is self-control. Let me know when you are ready to sign while I sit back and watch the dog and pony.
Beltin' Bill to my knowledge is the only Sox #14 who holds a HR title and he beat out Reggie Jackson with two homers in game 162 . Bill is a class guy. I will post his SI cover later.
After reading that Picasso was claimed to be a Sox fan I will feign surprise that Bob Dylan was also blowin' in the South Side wind. I think Pablo had acquired some Sox haberdashy when he was making his Chitown sculpture.
I might prefer Hawk to Benetti. Hawk has a passionate interest for Sox games that Benetti could never approach. Jason tries to lure Stone in on his curious tangents which always seem to crash in a baseball cul-de-sac.
We might get down to April Fools and the only fools left for Manny is us. I believe this quandary is for one reason. Lozano expects teams to chase after him and they are not.
There is no magic bullet for the Sox to close this deal. Sometimes you have to be patient. They must know what Lozano's number is and it is likely way over market. Lozano expects everyone to be chasing after him with money. That is not the case.
Palka is a lefty who earned another year to develop his hit tool. Matt pretty much bottomed out although he cut down on his K's. We don't have to pay much for Palka and he is ours.