We've all had things we've wanted our whole lives only to choose something different when the time came.
This writer believed he was going to the University of Illinois for the first 16-plus years of his life before choosing the University of Missouri. But you don't care about that, you care about Manny Machado and whether the White Sox are going to sign him.
I bring up that personal anecdote only to illustrate the decision facing Machado at the conclusion of his free-agent tour. His choices for where to play 81 of his home games over much of the next decade seems to be down to three teams: the White Sox, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies.