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  1. ToolDRT
    The vibe has definitely been moving away from us the last week or so. Which I’m fine with. But if Jed knows this now is the time to get moving on other things. Call on Soto. For the love of god, call on Soto.
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    For me, it was the New York teams. And now the braves!
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    This mfer gonna ruin our winter meetings 🤣
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    Yeah, I’m breaking something if we end up with Chapman.
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    That above article mentioned the Cubs, Angels, Dodgers, Jays and Giants, with a possible 6th mystery team (gotta love the mystery team!). Who does everyone think team 6 could potentially be?
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    I don’t know how to respond to you if you’re intentionally ignoring my posts. I never implied Ohtani was “drunk with power”. Never even implied he was wrong in putting thought into his decision. I said he’s unintentionally binding his team to his decision and that for his aspirations of winning to be cemented he’d be better to decide sooner. I’m not sure where the negativity is coming from with some of you this morning. If you’re bored with your Sunday that sucks. But don’t take it out on me. Having said that I’m responding politely to you this last time. From here on out I will utilize your comprehension skills and start picking one portion of your post to enhance my agenda. Ignoring the rest so I can make my point seem reasonable.
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    Oh that’s very cool! Was it a crazy vibe? Did you see any managers or players? I’m jealous over here!
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    Right? I’ve thought about it since Theo took over. We should get a large group of posters on here to go. We can wear matching NSBB shirts!
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    This makes me sad to agree with. Because I could definitely get behind a Yamamoto led offseason if we miss on Ohtani.
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    Anyone else ever get tempted to drop everything and go to the winter meeting just to see if you can stumble on a piece of gossip? Me either…
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    Yeah, he’s probably gonna smile and talk about being a generational talent. It’s up to us to kidnap him and demand answers! 🤣
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    Hahah he basically had to do that on the radio interview he gave after signing Counsell last month. I can’t recall which broadcast it was, but they drilled him good and he gave the standard answers.
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    I don’t understand the negativity from your part. We’re not debating math here. There’s inflation, sure, but the root cause remains we’re undeniably handcuffed here with our off-season plans until this plays out. You seem to be a very…simple man, but even you can’t argue that a 500-600 million dollar contact was signed last year. I don’t know, I’d think of maybe reading what I wrote properly and then working on improving your very limited vocabulary instead of turning to insults because you got confused and angry.
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    It’s insanely impressive the way they’ve managed to keep almost everything secret. You’d think in the scenario you laid out we’d at least get confirmation on which teams were there. Nothing. Rumors of four teams with the implication that more could be involved. Brilliant job by all involved parties. Annoying from a fan perspective 🤣
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    The problem is the rumblings seem to indicate he’s the one player we’re willing to bust out a mega deal for. My fear is we miss him and attempt to bargain shop again to make sure we avoid the first tax threshold.
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    This offseason! It’s so boring we’re debating nothing!
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    I don’t disagree with this. And again, I’m not saying Ohtani is being irrational either. It’s a huge decision. But we have guys that are posted with limited windows to sign. We have guys like Hoskins that are generally assumed to get a certain amount. None of which we can move in on right now because we either have 50 mil tied into one player…or we don’t. It’s a big difference and it leaves me extremely nervous that there’s such a huge variance in our spending.
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    There’s no point to have missed. This isn’t really an inflation argument. It’s common sense that teams have budgets. Ohtani is going to be heavily impacting that budget based on his yearly contract. So a team has to alter where the rest of those resources are allocated based on his contract. The wild part is I’ve never stated he’s being unreasonable. But he’s handcuffing whichever team he chooses the longer he waits
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    This might be a 600 million dollar contract. If you’re comparing that to the highest contracts of last offseason I don’t know what else I could possibly say here. The highest contract the cubs have given is 184 million. This is easily over 500 and trending upwards. Signing Ohtani will -without question - alter what a team spends after that. I’m really not even sure why it’s a debate. Signing Ohtani might be the difference in trading for Glasnow vs targeting Yamamoto. That’s a pretty big difference, no?
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    Yeah, you’re underestimating this contract. Not only that, you’re underestimating its impact on team payroll. This is 50 mil of your off season spending right off the bat. Teams need to know if that contract is going to be on their books before they can spend accordingly around it. Also, I was not remotely calling him “indecisive” or “weird”. You might be referring to others with that statement, but to clarify I fully understand he can take his time here. It’s his decision. But if he’s truly prioritizing winning above all else it would behoove him to figure this out soon so the winning team can fill other holes.
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    The issue is this IS the first time anyone is going to sign a contract of this nature. And while he’s fully within his rights to take as long as he wants to decide, he is also making it harder for his chosen team to add around his enormous contract.
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    Damn. This might make the winter meetings one of the least exciting of all-time. What’s going to really suck is if it was the dodgers all along and we wasted all this time on a guy who was never really interested in us when we could have been shopping for our other needs. Still hoping this gets done today or tomorrow so we can handle the rest of our offseason
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    This is going to be a very tough offseason for us if we whiff on Ohtani and Soto goes elsewhere.
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    That guy isn’t really to be taken seriously though, right? How would he have all this info that none of the national guys have.
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