This is the biggest contract in North American professional sports and now you are saying they should have gone above that in a league where not a single contract similar to this has ever been considered a good one?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I know he signed with the Padres. It is ok Frank. Let your frustration out. I would be pissed if my team failed at #rebuilding

Kenny is here to make everyone feel worse:

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The thing that’s great about this is the same defense of Theo / Ricketts that would be occurring from Rick and Frank if the Cubs lost out on this .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Look to the Padres if you want to see how I thought the Sox should have approached Machado.

This puts all kinds of pressure on the kids to not only win but have to be near superstars almost immediately.

If they signed a superstar, they would have all had time to be something while in his shadow.

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I'd rather have Harper anyhow.

Just go all-in on him now.

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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

Being a fan doesn't mean being a clapping seal for ownership.

All you are being is a Reinsdorf fan. He ain't gonna fuck you, dude.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Machado was step 2.
Machado + Eloy + Kopech puts you in a really nice position to be very good for a long time.

right now NO Machado puts you right back at the bottom.

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The crying poor and shocked is ridiculous. They better have a back-up plan.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The Cubs didn't even try for either of these guys. I don't think the Cubs are cheap. I was one of the few people on here pointing out how the doubling of the payroll was the major reason they won the World Series when everyone else was pretending they were the Tampa Bay Rays.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The difference is I can admit Theo/Ricketts messed up with the Heyward,Darvish,Chatwood contracts and are costing us Harper.

Agreed. Shameful how frank and peeps immediately start carrying water for the FO and Jerry right after this was announced. No Sox fan should feel good about this news. It’s pathetic.

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

A seal for ownership?
YOU are the one who started a thread saying 'burn the organization to the ground....but I'll still go to the park and give JERRY my money if I get a free or a dirt cheap ticket.'

I know you might not be used to balls bouncing off of your nose gd, but you're playing the part well today.

I do not fault the Cubs in the least for not wanting to commit that amount of money to just one player.

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Good to see Frank so concerned about Jerry's finances. Someone has to lookout

Throw in the damn towel

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Good Dolphin gets it. I ALMOST feel bad for him.

I don't feel good but I also don't feel bad.

I feel ambivalent. I am a White Sox fan.

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Look at Kenny. Isn't it cute how he's trying to be the sacrificial lamb. Sorry, you big bullshitter, this is all on your boss. Nobody is going to throw darts at you no matter how hard you try. So who ya crappin'. Don't crap me...no, no, no

So you want them to go back to the latter part of the Kenny Williams era and starting throwing around money like its nothing? What did the Sox win when they signed Dunn, Melky, David Robertson, and guys ilke that? Unless I missed something crazy, #2005 is the hashtag I see around here from Sox fans.

I don't "feel good" about this, but I am not going to fault any team for not handing a ten year contract.

Again, if you guys want to jump ship then go ahead and do it. You have ever reason to at this point. But don't half ass it, and don't chide the real fans who make the choice to stick with their team.

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

I don't see either of these guys anywhere near the top of this list:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/war/leaders/_/t ... /year/2018

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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

None of those players were as good or as young as Machado. Do better.

This is still the Kenny Williams era and they’ve never come close to signing a player as good as Machado (and never will) so it wouldn’t be going back to anything.

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

This does feel like A-Rod to Texas. I bet the Padres dump him after eating a ton of the contract to New York or Boston to get out from under it in a few years.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I'm surprised he's getting this money when the Cubs, Yankees, Dodgers, Nationals, etc were all not even in the running. I guess the collusion talk was all bullshit (which we knew already).

John Heyman as recently as this morning said Machado didn't want to go to San Diego, as it's "another world" from Miami. I guess he'll be joining another Miami guy (Eric Hosmer). It's all about the $$$.

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Nobody gives a fuck about the last 3-4 years of the contract if he helps you win a world series during the first 6-7 years of it.

Who said they had to hand over 10 years? Give him 6, 7, or 8. The fact is they were OUTBID. That shouldn't have happened.

Heyward and Darvish were hardly the best OF/Pitcher on their teams, let alone one of the best players in the league, and look at what those contracts have done for the Cubs in all this.

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And his stats will suffer for it but at least he signed a record contract !!

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.