 This is a from Bob Nightingale of USA Today. The White Sox have made a formal offer to Manny Machado. Okay. It's characterized as a serious offer likely closer to 200 million than 300 million which would not be enough to sway Machado to get on a flight from Chicago from Miami to Chicago for press conference. The White Sox have yet to make a formal offer for Harper but they remain in constant contact meeting six weeks ago in person with Harper his wife and Scott Boris. According to Bob if Machado had his wish and the offers were relatively close friends believe he'd choose the Yankees his favorite team growing up in Miami. Yet if the Yankees were convinced that Machado was coming their way they wouldn't have even bothered with shortstop Troy Tulaewitzky signing into a no risk insurance policy. If Harper had his choice with the offers being close friends believe he picked the Dodgers. The Dodgers may have interest but have been publicly declared they will even make a short term offer. If it's solely about the money with Harper and Machado it may be between the Phillies and the White Sox. While nothing is yet transpired at least the landscape is starting to become clear. So there you have it. The money that we all thought was going to be thrown at these two guys not quite to this point the largest offer he may get I'm sorry about Harper is the 10 year 300 million dollars he turned down from the Nationals. Yeah that included deferred payments according to Nightingale which would devalue the total to about 284 million. So it's supposed to be you know at least when it comes to Machado a week after the new year so that's tomorrow or next week at some point. So again it looks like the agents got it wrong that these guys were going to get a windfall and it's just not out there. Teams do not want to spend that kind of money because what does it guarantee me if I give Harper or Machado 300 million dollars. One thing it guarantees the White Sox is relevancy. All right so the Phillies and the Phillies it probably makes them the favorite. But all right relevancy but I don't know if that gives the White Sox any chance at a championship for the length of the contract does it. I know it's a wide open division but those teams need a lot all right. You put more fans in the seats you get a few more people watching you. It's not going to make the White Sox more important than the Cubs. So are you going to get your money back. Are you telling me that between ticket sales and revenue taken in through television or radio is going to compensate for 300 million dollars over the next 10 years. It could sell some tickets. I'm not but there are some teams that how many more tickets can you sell. I mean would the Yankees go up to a 4 million attendance. I think the Yankees do it. Dodgers do it because they want to win a championship. White Sox are doing it. You said for relevancy. All right the little relevancy but how does that pay back the 300 million dollars you're going to have to pay them. If I'm not going to win anything. But if you're relevant and you win games you I mean they drew for the first time ever not the first time ever but like in 20 years under 20,000 a game last year. Right. So what does. So let's say they get up to 28,000 a game. Okay. And that's eight times 82 81 that that would be 640,000 extra seats. All right. Right. At $10 a hundred bucks per person. You know what they say something right. It's a lot of money. You make up a lot. Now you make up a lot but does that mean that that's going to continue throughout the rest of the contract. I don't know if you're not winning. Right. I mean I don't know what was the nationals attendance. I mean they're winning. They're a winning team but if Harper is raking and is in the contention for American League MVP and the team's 10 games under 500 are people going to pay to just see him play if the team is lousy. Right. I don't know if he makes them a champion. He couldn't make the nationals a champion. I'm not trying to kill him. I'm just saying that this is it's not basketball where I can add the best player in the league and instantly make the playoffs and make a run. I can add the best player in the league and mean what five more wins during the course of the season. If these guys don't and Peter don't I'm not talking about home run. If they don't hit a grand slam then there's gonna be a work stoppage when this collective bargaining agreement is up and I don't know what they're negotiating against because what they're negotiating against is the fact that GM's are smarter than ever and they're not going to spend money like this no matter how good the player is. But the thing is is that it's just it's baseball Michael like everybody wants to get the big cut like basketball you pay all this money right LeBron James KD they won't make fortunes right because I can add Kevin Durant to the Knicks and they'll make the playoffs and they'll make a run every single year doesn't work doesn't work that way in baseball. But for these two guys though that play about 160 games a year it will make them better teams will it make them champions no