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Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie. Guff last week on the podcast, we called it, where do the White Sox stand with Harper and Machado?

Today, though, we're calling it, what the heck is going on with Harper and Machado?

Sox pitchers and catchers report in a week.

Position players, February 17th, and two biggest stars of this free agent class are still without a team

and there are no signs they're even close to a deal.

This is the last podcast

you'll be doing in studio before going to

Arizona. Was there any scenario

that you envisioned when you went back and

when we started this process in October

that had you going to spring training

without Manny Machado or

Bryce hyper signing well do you really think that not about a week ago I realized

that's possible but before that I thought it would be no chance yeah so I mean

this is not something that I thought it could mid-January late January we

thought I mean we made predictions on the podcast that he would sign at the

winter meetings, that they would sign at the winter meetings, that they would sign by Christmas,

that they would sign by the New Year. Because we thought this was going to be different than last year,

but it's the same thing over again. So on the podcast today, we speak with USA Today, columnist,

friend of the podcast, Bob Nightingale, who wrote an interesting article here on Tuesday, entitled MLB's Free Agency Freeze is an embarrassment for baseball.

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