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Originally Posted by yankeessuck013

We are about 72 hrs since Henry's email, and every baseball scribe in the country hasn't sniffed out a higher bid than the Sox' reported 8/170ish offer. It looks like we all thought; there isn't a mystery team and Boras is about to get embarrassed, if he hasn't already.

I think the Sox went into that meeting armed with the knowledge they had the highest bid...it was December 18th and it was time to get it done. Boras wasn't pleased the bidding for Teix spiked around 170 million, so he bluffed. Henry's frustration is because they have placed the highest bid but Boras won't let Teix sign out of frustration.

The Angels got tired of being used, so they told him to fuck off. The Nats announce they don't think there is any way they will win the bidding...and the Yanks haven't offered anything. My own private theory on NYY is they have told Boras off the record that they would rather invest their money in Manny short term, or in Holliday next winter long term, or very possibly both (Damon and Matsui are gone, so the LF and DH spot is open past this season.)

My guess is Theo is waiting by the phone for Boras to call, but Boras is too proud. This will either end quickly in the next few hours, or Boras will decide to re-boot and create a new market, even if it goes into late January. He has some serious face-saving to do here; last winter he absolutely botched the Arod opt-out and got lucky the Yanks took him back, and the Sox won a staredown two winters ago with Dice-K.

The question is will he do the responsible thing an get his client 170 million before it vanishes, or will he let his ego rule this? My gut feeling is at this point Teix is got to be saying "enough already, let's be done before I get made out to be a villain here."

Looks like you are correct so far.