Matsuzaka News

[BudLight]

2008 he can be a FA. If he goes back we get to do this all over again next year. Then if that doesn't work out' date=' he will be a FA for 2008.[/quote']

 

Thanks for the clarification.

[a700hitter]

Then why does it still look like s***? :dunno:

As compared to that toilet in the Bronx?

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

As compared to that toilet in the Bronx?

 

No, as compared to a piece of s***.

 

Yankee stadium looks like s*** too. That's why a new one is being built.

[a700hitter]

No, as compared to a piece of s***.

 

Yankee stadium looks like s*** too. That's why a new one is being built.

Yes and they will building the new stadium in that toilet of a neighborhood in the Bronx.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

I just heard this on ESPN radio, and I thought it was an interesting point so I thought I would bring it up:

 

Does anyone here think the Red Sox bid so high to block the yanks from getting Matsuzaka with no intention of signing him? If the Red Sox don't sign him he goes back to Japan for another year and the Red Sox don't spend a dime. This is far fetched but maybe possible based on what Theo said last year, basically pleading poverty and saying the Sox can't keep up with the yankees financially. Flame away.

[ORS]

I just heard this on ESPN radio, and I thought it was an interesting point so I thought I would bring it up:

 

Does anyone here think the Red Sox bid so high to block the yanks from getting Matsuzaka with no intention of signing him? If the Red Sox don't sign him he goes back to Japan for another year and the Red Sox don't spend a dime. This is far fetched but maybe possible based on what Theo said last year, basically pleading poverty and saying the Sox can't keep up with the yankees financially. Flame away.

It makes very little sense. They would effectively close the door on the Japanese market. JWH and Theo are both on quote about wanting very badly to tap into the Asian talent market. They signed several Taiwanese youngsters last year, and other things they have said indicate this move has been on the horizon for a few years. This looks like their first big move into that market, so I'm skeptical that they would risk souring it just to block the Yankees.

 

EDIT: redundancy

[Cocos Disciples]

Signing him keeps him away from the Yankees too.

[riverside sluggers]

I just heard this on ESPN radio, and I thought it was an interesting point so I thought I would bring it up:

 

Does anyone here think the Red Sox bid so high to block the yanks from getting Matsuzaka with no intention of signing him? If the Red Sox don't sign him he goes back to Japan for another year and the Red Sox don't spend a dime. This is far fetched but maybe possible based on what Theo said last year, basically pleading poverty and saying the Sox can't keep up with the yankees financially. Flame away.

 

As ORS said, that would be a very stupid move on the Red Sox's part. First, it would just be delaying him going to the Yankees for another year. Second, this type of move would damage relations between the Asian market and the Boston front office

 

Also as time ticks by during this 30 day period to talk with Matsuzaka, so will the depth free agent starting pitchers.

[a700hitter]

I just heard this on ESPN radio, and I thought it was an interesting point so I thought I would bring it up:

 

Does anyone here think the Red Sox bid so high to block the yanks from getting Matsuzaka with no intention of signing him? If the Red Sox don't sign him he goes back to Japan for another year and the Red Sox don't spend a dime. This is far fetched but maybe possible based on what Theo said last year, basically pleading poverty and saying the Sox can't keep up with the yankees financially. Flame away.

I believe this theory is known as the "Egocentric New York Yankee Fan Theory." It has about as much credibility as the Yankee fans on this site--- zero.

[jacksonianmarch]

while I dont think it will happen, I will admit that I heard the same thing on ESPN radio. They are just trying to stir up a shitstorm as always.

[BSN07]

Yes there just priming the fire for the first NYY VS BOS series that Matsuzaka will pitch in. The rivalry puttered out for them when it wasn't BOS and NYY in the ALCS. So they have to find something else they can air for an hour before the game starts. Just espn propaganda lol

[Gom]

I think it is a very real possibility that the Red Sox FO may have bid with no intention to sign him. I also agree that it would kill their image in the Far East. Overall, I would have to say it is a longshot that the Red Sox intent was never to sign him, but by no means can I completely disregard it.

 

We'll see in what...27 days at the most?

[26 to 6]

I believe this theory is known as the "Egocentric New York Yankee Fan Theory." It has about as much credibility as the Yankee fans on this site--- zero.

lol

[Cocos Disciples]

BoSox dine with Matsuzaka before meeting Boras

Associated Press

 

BOSTON -- Daisuke Matsuzaka dined with his would-be Boston bosses and took in a Los Angeles Lakers game during a trip to the United States before heading back to Japan and leaving his agent to work out a deal with the Red Sox.

 

"We had some initial discussions yesterday," agent Scott Boras said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "We're continuing to talk. We've started the process."

 

Boston bid $51.1 million for the right to negotiate with Matsuzaka, who was the MVP of last spring's World Baseball Classic. General manager Theo Epstein has until the end of Dec. 14 to sign him.

 

Red Sox owner Tom Werner and president Larry Lucchino did not respond to requests for comment. But Boras confirmed that the sides got together informally on Saturday night for dinner at Werner's Southern California home.

 

"We had kind of an owners and executives meeting Saturday to kind of introduce D-Mat to everyone and everyone to us," Boras said. "It was an evening where I think both sides learned a lot about one another. A good cultural exchange."

 

Boras said Matsuzaka returned to Japan on Monday.

 

Under Epstein, the Red Sox have not hesitated to make college-style recruiting trips to land talent. In 2003, after losing a heartbreaking playoff series to the New York Yankees, Epstein and his lieutenants had Thanksgiving dinner with Curt Schilling to persuade him to accept a trade from Arizona to Boston.

 

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press