Daisuke Matsuzaka -Let The Bidding Begin.

[metirish]

The deadline for bids is today at 5PM,I'm going to guess that the winning bid will be $28M.....

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I wonder when we find out who won the rights. I read somewhere that we might find out today, but other things I've read indicate that it might be as many as four days until we learn which team bid highest.

[metirish]

Yeah the Lions have four days to accept or reject,kinda cool if we found out tonight that the Mets had won the bid.

[metsmarathon]

i'll say $30M

[Vic Sage]

$25m

[Guest sharpie]

$24.9 million

[nymr83]

$28,000,101

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Where's Bob Barker when you need him?

[Elster88]

26

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

1 dollar

[Elster88]

I saw a lot of clowns bid 1 on that show when they weren't the last guy to bid.

[Guest Edgy DC]

16.5

[nymr83]

Elster88 wrote: I saw a lot of clowns bid 1 on that show when they weren't the last guy to bid.

i've seen the next guy say "2" and teach them a lesson

its a good strategy if you're the last one to go and feel that theres a decent chance they all went over, but if you arent last you need to make an accurate guess

[DocTee]

23.5

[Elster88]

Nymr83 wrote: ="Elster88"]I saw a lot of clowns bid 1 on that show when they weren't the last guy to bid. i've seen the next guy say "2" and teach them a lesson its a good strategy if you're the last one to go and feel that theres a decent chance they all went over, but if you arent last you need to make an accurate guess

Well yeah thats where I was going.

[Guest patona314]

based from the rumors I've read, it seems that Matsuzaka is dictating where he wants to go... and that's NY. Rumors also state that he likes being the "STAR" of the team ( been that way since he was 15). Considering that Godzilla is on the other side of town, The Mets seem like his logical goal (based off rumors of course). Which is great for us... unless... well, you guys can fill in the rest.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Elster88 wrote: I saw a lot of clowns bid 1 on that show when they weren't the last guy to bid.

Bids on TPIR should be keyed into a pad on the podium secretly and displayed for the audience, not the other contestants. If you're stupid, you're stupid.

[Guest patona314]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ="Elster88"]I saw a lot of clowns bid 1 on that show when they weren't the last guy to bid. Bids on TPIR should be keyed into a pad on the podium secretly and displayed for the audience, not the other contestants. If you're stupid, you're stupid.

Unless Bob Barker and Adam Sandler are in the same sentence...STFU

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

patona -"based from the rumors I've read, it seems that Matsuzaka is dictating where he wants to go... and that's NY. Rumors also state that he likes being the "STAR" of the team ( been that way since he was 15). Considering that Godzilla is on the other side of town, The Mets seem like his logical goal (based off rumors of course). Which is great for us... unless... well, you guys can fill in the rest."

Unless, we land him for big bucks and he turns out to be the second coming of Hidecki Irabu.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Give Diasuke a MFY Uniform now...We're wasting our time thinking he will be a Met

Our history with Japanese pitchers of any price is underwhelming....

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm not thinking one way or another.

I don't care about our five-deep history with Japanese pitchers.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And his preference, if he has one, doesn't factor into this at all. The only option he has if his rights go to a team he doesn't want to play for would be to refuse to sign and stay with the Lions for one more season.

[Guest 86-Dreamer]

$16.5 million is my guess.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Uh-uh. No, it's not.

[soupcan]

Early unconfirmed report is that the Red Sox are the high bidder with somewhere between $28 and $45 million.

Yowzer, that's some serious sashimi.

[HahnSolo]

38-45 million, per Buster Olney, citing MLB sources.

Wow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a payroll for a small market club.

[DocTee]

A tactic to keep him from the Bronx for a year? Post a ridiculously high bid, then don't even try to sign him...you lose nothing in that scenario, right?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Right.

[soupcan]

But who is to say that if the highest bidding team doesn't sign him they can't move down the ladder to next highest?

Is there a rule somewhere that says they can"t do that?