Bananarchy

ESPN fires Adnan Virk following his leaking negotiation information between MLB and ESPN

I understand the concern about tanking ruining sports, but if the alternative is the ridiculous European Soccer model where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, I'll take some teams tanking. There are about ten football clubs worth anything anymore and almost every league is a two horse race.

Underwood gets two more seasons to figure this out. I'm not going to worry about losses in his second season with how good the underclassmen look

I'm hoping this is true as it would likely be the first domino of many

I might miss 1995 Hawk a little bit but Benetti is just leagues above 2017 Hawk. By the end you had to mute White Sox road games because Hawk was that bad. And Jason and Steve are already improving.

Good. The Bulls need to be horrible. That way they can get Zion or Barrett.

What? You low ball without offending and start there.

I would give Lyle Mouton a 10 year, $20 million contract to play for the current White Sox if I knew we netted Machado by doing so.

Or that Clark the Cub debacle from a few years back

Yeah, but he just started. His sources are pre-ESPN. Olney is institutionalized at the booyah network. I wouldn't trust anything from him

Stick to weak hockey takes

Until the next inevitable strike, I'm not sure what Trout would even get on the free agent market.

Yup. Recent developments have created a de facto salary cap. No one wants to pay into any competitive balance tax. This will undoubtedly hurt salaries.

Depends on the options built in, honestly.

Yankees didn't sign Alex Rodriguez to that contract. They signed him to a worse one. And based on the reluctance in the market, you think somehow a team would drop $370 million adjusted for inflation for A-Rod? Okay Skip Bayless.

Who is they? The White Sox? They're clearly setting the basement and will negotiate.

They mention the A-Rod contract. Honestly, that was too high then and it's probably too high now. There is stupid money in baseball right now. I don't care what anyone things anyone deserves, you get what the market wants to pay.

That sound about right. $60 million/year is a lot to invest in two fielders.

The Yankees one would be the same with even less baseball content. Yankees fans may be worse than Cub fans.

Indeed.

If I had to guess, someone let slip on either side that the Sox are willing to go 8 years for more money (they must be if they're that serious) but the message from the White Sox is "oh no, we're not going over 7 seasons"

Oh it would be insane... ...and completely unfair

I think they're trying to save and if the market is as thin as it appears, they should try to get the best deal possible.

Yes.

That would suck, but probably not worth mentioning in this roller coaster.