10:04pm: A Darvish announcement of some sort appears to be coming in about ten minutes, according to Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca (on Twitter)
8:42pm: MLB won't announce which team won the bidding until Nippon announces that it accepted the bid (assuming the team accepts), Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News clarifies (on Twitter). The Fighters do not know the identity of the team that won the bid.
6:15pm: The Fighters have "definitely" decided to accept the winning bid, Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com tweets.
4:04pm: No firm time is set for the announcement, according to Morosi (Twitter links). He notes that MLB officials are still waiting for word from Darvish's team and adds that it's just 7am in Japan.
7:40am: The Nippon Ham Fighters will announce their acceptance of the high bidder and the winning team for Yu Darvish tonight, tweets Danny Knobler of CBS Sports, referencing agent Don Nomura. Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports notes that the announcement will be around 7-8pm central time. Rumors so far suggest the Blue Jays or Rangers won the bid at an amount exceeding $51MM.
Nippon Ham Fighters calender was relased yesterday andit contains a picture of Darvish. That means he stays at Nippon ham.
Nah………..!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Ham Fighters already said they’d accept the highest bid.
And apparently won’t say who that is.
Dick, it is not polite in Japan to ‘hurry-up’ stuff. It shows disrespect to the club and the player.
Just a note: There are 6,371,773 people in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro area.
Congratulations to the Jays, if this is true:
“Kevin Gray
Breaking: Announcement has been delayed… It’s coming. Blue Jays won the bid for Yu Darvish.”Even as a Yankees fan, I think this a great move for not only the league, but should make AL matchups more interesting next season.
Saw that too. Anthopoulos is supposed to hold a press conference.. 30 minutes ago haha.
How the heck could the beat writer for the New Hampshire Fishercats have any insider information?Â
She pays more on her daily trip to a fast food restaurant than the Fighters will be getting in a posting fee for Darvish.
Jon Paul Morosi is a liar.
I see white smoke!!
Idk, I suck at jokes.
I wish they would just announce the winner already so the Canadians can go back to watching HGTV and leave the discussing of baseball to people who know the game.Â
That was colder than Canada.
I wish they would just announce the winner already so the Americans can go back to doing their drive-by shootings and leave the discussing of baseball to people who know the game.
At least make it funny.
I figured I would make it realistic.
BRAVO! BRAVO! ………go watch some hockey or something…
Shouldn’t you be watching American Idol or some other reality tv show?
Its the X Factor…get up to date…
At least humans are deadly game. Only wimps hunt maple trees.
We hunt beavers. 🙂
I thought you preferred Pujols.
I wish they would just announce the winner already so the Americans can go back to eating their Big Macs and getting fat and leave the discussing of baseball to people who know the game.    Â
Hey, leave Big Macs out of this bro…
I wish they would just announce the winner already so the Canadians go back to riding our coattails and leave the discussing of baseball to people who know the game.    Â
wheww… now we`re offended
lol…easy there, sweetheart.
One word: Votto. Another? Walker. Still Another? Jenkins. And many more.
You are expecting an American to know that? They couldn’t even point out their neighbour state on a map!
Ayyyyy?
lol
Its getting really hard to read your comment.
Bumblebee Tuna?
Patty, go away …..as you can see below, this is an intelligent conversation. 🙂
We should have a battle royal between Americans and their guns vs. a Canadian mob.
Blame Canada!
Yeah Canada…….the hope of the future for the USA …….. think: resources.
Oh yeah, and ideas about setting up a ‘just and caring society’. It is time America. Go Bruins!
Wheres the line to sign up for a sub prime mortgage I can’t afford?
Its not a good comeback if you use it more than once on one thread.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that the mystery team is Houston.
The Houston Rockets
We’ll give you back Jim Carrey and Pam Anderson if we can have Yu.
YU READY FOR SOME YU JAYS BASEBALL
SCREW YU!!
Gotta be more Darvish then that!
Pammy is done like dinner. No deal.
She was a throw in.
So when’s this getting announced, so it can finally be over with lol…
That’s because everyone likes BJ’s.
*Peter Griffen laugh*
It’s a guy thing, eh, DICK?
BTW: Announcement within 10 minutes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
RANGERS
TORONTO YU JAYS
OMG!!!!!!!!
Hmmm….Shi Dvidi from Rogers Sportnet reports announcement coming in minutes…Doesn’t Rogers own Blue Jays?
AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The Texas Rangers have won the posting auction of Japanese right-hander
Yu Darvish with a record $51.7M bid, sources tell Yahoo! Sports.
Wow…huge bid
So much for ur previous pOst huh?
Figures…
Hopefully he loses them the World Series.
Yu darkish says HE will choose his team, not YU!
yeah, i made the mistake and immediately corrected it. you do know “because we capitalize” is the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard right?
then you didn’t read enough of this thread…
hahaha he is 100% right, you claiming hes elite already is strange, no facts to back it up. Dont care if he dominated japanese hitters
it takes a big man/woman to admit their mistake so you have my respect on that.