Per Rosenthal: Balfour (FINALLY) to Orioles...

[Ooooooohhhh!!!!]

I can say for certainty that Angelos never blinks.

How do you explain the Vlad contract?

[weams]

How do you explain the Vlad contract?

No blink. Hunger.

[mdbdotcom]

How do you explain the Vlad contract?

It was a big discount on the contract he'd turned down years earlier.

[TradeAngelos]

Jen Royle is wrong again. Boy am I shocked. Shocked I tell you.

I love it when an agent calls a reporter to tell them to report something they know darn well isn't true, and that reporter vehemently defends her "sources" who are just using her to try to make more money for their client.

And then it comes out from a much more plugged in, real reporter, that it isn't accurate information.

[sportsfan8703]

I love it when an agent calls a reporter to tell them to report something they know darn well isn't true, and that reporter vehemently defends her "sources" who are just using her to try to make more money for their client.

And then it comes out from a much more plugged in, real reporter, that it isn't accurate information.

O's puppet vs Balfour's puppet.

[Fiver]

I wonder how many pages an 'Orioles sign Balfour' thread would be....

[Guest]

I wonder how many pages an 'Orioles sign Balfour' thread would be....

[TonySoprano]

I can say for certainty that Angelos never blinks.

Alex has nothing on Angelos

[MrOrange82]

[Guest]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Adding a vesting option to Balfour's 2-year offer is under consideration by <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23orioles&src=hash">#orioles</a>, according to source. "Might" be willing to do it.</p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

">December 17, 2013</a></blockquote>

<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[weams]

... the White Sox get to try to find another closer to build up and eventually trade (Nate Jones and Daniel Webb being the obvious candidates). As quickly as relievers come and go, it seems like a great strategy, even if the payoff isn?t what it might have been 10 years ago. That Molina and Davidson were the best the White Sox could do for young, cost-controlled save specialists shows there just aren?t as many gullible GMs as there once were.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/16/white-sox-decide-closers-exist-to-be-cashed-in/

No wonder we got Jemile Weeks.

[scOtt]

Defragmenting your cerebral hard drive?

Thanks for reminding me! Haven't done that on my RL hard drives in a while.

[scOtt]

No blink. Hunger.

My favorite thing on Earth. With extra au jus and onion rings. Sop up with the o rings. Heaven achieved.

[scOtt]

My favorite thing on Earth. With extra au jus and onion rings. Sop up with the o rings. Heaven achieved.

Zero left on the plate unless it's bone-on. If you got bread the plate will be clean.

[scOtt]

But I digress. Balfour by Wednesday?

I read that on the internet so...