http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2575 ... -white-sox

Chicago's willingness to offer a deal in the 10-year range has been questioned, as the largest contract in franchise history was Jose Abreu's six-year, $68 million deal. Guaranteeing eight years on Machado illustrates the seriousness of the White Sox in their pursuit, according to sources, and could portend the ability to proffer a decade-long offer -- especially if Philadelphia or the supposed mystery team continues engaging with Machado.

I like to think it was a counter-joke. I laughed at both.

30 million Aav honestly seems pretty reasonable. It certainly will not choke payroll

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And men have lost their reason.

I think it may have been inadvertent but regardless I chuckled.

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I got it but I was sure so I tried to have it both ways.

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Honestly, I'd give him $1.75 bil since he's gonna have to share playing time with Tim Anderson and Yolmer Sanchez

All these reports are meaningless to me until he signs. In fact they probably will make me angrier if he doesn’t sign. Hahn has to know this. He’s playing a very dangerous game with the future viability of this franchise with the way he has publicly pursued these two.

Rip my heart out on this one and that might be it in this abusive relationship

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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You are living your life like the movie 'Revenge of The Nerds' is real.

Its just a movie, dude, and you are a huge nerd who is not smart enough to do the NYT Crossword past maybe Monday.

There's no fucking way you are going to get with Betty Childs or even be a hair on Stan Gable's ass, so get back to re-engineering that javelin!

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It'll suck when he signs somewhere else but what should the team do?

And this is the 4th thread about signing Machado you've made.

You are setting yourself up for disappointment.

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I sure hope this doesn't turn out to be Mach-ado about nothing!

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

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Ok so were talking people who die before 40? In that case...

Many born in the 20's, 30's, 40's who never saw a White Sox playoff game.

The inablity of the White Sox fan to acknowledge their pathetic history is forever interesting.

Nobody is touting the White Sox as some juggernaut and a perennial playoff team. But the post of "there were kids born ten years ago who haven't seen the Sox in the playoffs" is just dumb. The Cubs have had MANY 10-12 year windows of ineptitude over the course of their history.

I've often gotten on conns for posting generic links to stories without any context or opinions of his own. Perhaps he should continue to do that because as he has demonstrated here his thoughts are brutally bad.

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In this century, the longest the Cubs have gone without post season is 6 years. It's getting better for the Cubs.

Sox off to a bad start in the 21st

conns is right. Why is that bad to point out?

The Sox had one of the greatest wire to wire championship seasons in baseball history 14 years ago.

They've been abysmal for much of the past decade.

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MANY don't want to be wrong. Just like the guy who had him going to the Yankees

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Someone's lying

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Everyone else has 8 years except the guy who reported 7. No one else had him signing with the Yankees except the guy who reported it. Neither want to walk back their bullshit.

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I'm told they have not increased the offer.

Just end this madness!

I hope the Sox call a press conference to announce the signing but it ends up like the Dave McGinnis fiasco.

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That would be the Soxiest thing Hahn and Williams could do.

Just imagine How Tim Anderson feels.

Hopefully he feels like he needs to get his ass in gear to greatly improve as a ballplayer.

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exactly

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Yep

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7? 8? Who really cares bottom line? I'm more interested in who they draft and trade for going forward(Other than Machado or Harper).

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

The Sox could position themselves to have a decade run this offseason.

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