southsideirish71

For all of those who think that the current ownership group is going to sell the team. The current owners look at the same team you love and cheer for and instead of a baseball team. They see this.

Some great college baseball in that part of the world ( Nashville ). Watching college baseball has helped me deal with the rebuild and the growing pains.

Here is the real thing to think about. Unlike the Hawks when Bill Wirtz died, a Rocky Wirtz and a new thought process isn't here to rescue us. It will be Michael Reinsdorf as a managing partner like his father who will be more of the same. The families are not going to sell. This is a slush fund. Who cares if no one shows up. It helps with rent if that continues. It's not like that destroys their profits. MLB monies arrive and the checks clear for the ownership group. A nice lockout or strike during the next CBA might piss the casual fan off, but if it protects the kitty its worth it.

how did thry get outplayed. This wasnt a blind bid. The agent asked them to match. They said no.

Behind Door #1 is 50 mill Behind Door number 2 you could make 20 more mill however you could make zero. Which one do you want.

Math is hard.

Magic beans and hope though.

Well I am going to give you 110k a year for a job. Or you can take this job for 75k and if you hit certain performance incentives, it's over 130k a year. It's the same job.

Rick we can hear your side of this in a few minutes.

Hopefully its about his resignation. Good luck Brooks Boyer

The Levine 175 to 210 million dollar offer has more legs to me. SD went 240 to 280 and within a week it was done.

Well wait till het gets to FA. At least we will get a draft pick.

And there it is. They were not serious. They were bargain hunting hoping to get him to agree due to market conditions. The friends and family plan should of been a clue that they were never serious.

Just incompetence. Your high offer sitting for the better part of a month not being taken should of been a clue that this wasnt enough. Good work.

Sure the bargain hunters are going to pony up more than 300 million.

Well JR, Rick and Kenny can go fuck themselves. Thanks for helping out the Indians so they can keep Kluber and Bauer by giving them financial relief. And letting the Padres link this guy up. I look forward to seeing the final contract numbers. We were only serious on if Machado was a bargain is my guess.

If San Diego comes out and completely blows this out of the water, then so be it. If on the other hand, our owner thinks it's 1980 and no player is worth 30 mil and he drew a line in the sand that we would never cross then that's another. In short, there is zero reason that the sox can use to justify not getting him. There is a limited amount of teams involved. You have generational talent available. Its not a bidding war with 6 major teams with unlimited funds. Its the perfect storm that may never happen again for us. Friends and Family Plan. Hahn brought in Alonso. Which in part aided a division rival by giving them payroll flexibility. Hahn brought in Jay. Once again, friends and family plan. We are playing a game with Eloy that probably won't endear us to his agent. The Cubs did the same thing with Bryant, lets see how that plays out over time. Now we are moving players around the diamond with nonsense comments about not worrying about a player not on the team. LOL

There are two 26-year-old franchise altering FAs out there this year. They need to grab one of them. I have zero faith if they strike out this year that next year will be any different. If they lose out on either its either they were blown out of the water or Manny wanted to play for the Yankees. If its we low bid and waited for the bargain to show up then that's a franchise killer as far as trust.

Band of Brothers is outstanding. Generation Kill as well.

He wants everyone to beat everyone's offer until the most money winds up in Machado's pocket.

Because accusing violations of the collective bargaining agreement would only affect MLB teams, not random reporters.

Well, if that is the case that the sox leaked this, this will kill any chance of getting future featured free agents for a while unless we go well well over on contract.

Who says they are this far. The statement states that the White Sox level of interest in Manny is completely wrong. Maybe they are at 7/175 and others are moving forward. You wouldn't take the sox publically off the radar as the Phillies would be bidding against themselves.

MLB channel is saying that the Phillies are looking to get Machado, Harper and Keuchel.

Let piss off one of the final bidders who has the top offer of 250 million by making them look like shit and then I look like a hero. This makes zero sense. Most agents will leak on a position of strength, not omg they are all low balling us. Look at my mad negotiation skills its now 250. Within a week of Machado signing that would get leaked out that it was 250 for a while and that this was a bullshit plant. Then the agent's reputation with other teams and players is shit.