» Dicegate: T-38 hours and counting. Where’s George Mitchell when you need him?
December 13th, 2006

Dicegate: T-38 hours and counting. Where’s George Mitchell when you need him?

Filed under: Gordon Edes, Scott Boras, Red Sox front office, 2006 playoffs, Daisuke Matsuzaka by Seth Mnookin @ 10:42 am
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George Mitchell has some impressive credentials — he served two terms in the Senate, he’s acknowledged as the prime force in getting the Belfast Peace Agreements signed in 1998, and he served as a co-chairman of the U.S. Task Force on the U.N. He’s also the director of the Red Sox. If he can negotiate peace in Northern Ireland, surely he can find a way to bring the Sox and Scott Boras together on the international crises known as Dicegate.

If he’s not holed up in Southern California yet, it might be too late. Today’s Herald reports the deal has to get done by this morning, Pacific Time, when the Trans World Henry heads back to Boston. If the Diceman ain’t on the plane with plans to take a physical, there won’t be a deal. (Of course, the parties could negotiate throughout the day and Matsuzaka could still, conceivably, be on a plane tonight. It’s also not out of the realm of possibility that MLB tells the Sox and Boras that if they have a deal by tomorrow’s midnight deadline, it’s alright if it’s conditional on a physical.)

Meanwhile, the Globe’s indefatigable Gordon Edes has a three AM update from his ubiquitous “source with direct ties to the negotiation” saying the “dialogue continues.” “That would appear to leave open the possibility that a deal could still be struck before the Sox make their scheduled departure this morning,” Edes writes. “But nothing appeared imminent.”

I figure the next updates will come around noon or 1 EST, when the business day starts out in L.A. Of course, I’ve assumed lots of things that’ve turned out to be wrong.

2 Comments »

  1. Not nitpicking Seth, but its 1998.

    You are, of course, right — that’s the problem when your fingers move faster than your brain.

    – Seth

    Comment by tmurph13 — December 13, 2006 @ 1:40 pm

  2. Nice guess on that last line.

    Comment by chris — December 13, 2006 @ 2:03 pm

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