Nightengale: JR has talked to Boras, no offer yet submitted for harper (Harper Thread *updates in first post*)

[Chi Town Sox]

If it's true and aligns with Hahn's comments...I'm sure they've been in touch with Machado often.

[SonofaRoache]

We aren't getting Machado. He wants to be out East. Probably the Yankees or Phillies. 

[turnin' two]

4 minutes ago, Chi Town Sox said:

If it's true and aligns with Hahn's comments...I'm sure they've been in touch with Machado often.

What comments?

[fathom]

6 minutes ago, whitesoxwinner said:

Just saw that on reddit, too. Having bour to the angels before anyone else does give him credibility, so this kind of sucks

Only reason not to trust him is if he’s an Angels fan that’s trolling the Dodgers

[Jose Abreu]

1 minute ago, fathom said:

Only reason not to trust him is if he’s an Angels fan that’s trolling the Dodgers

Yeah, that’s the ONLY reason.

[whitesoxwinner]

1 minute ago, fathom said:

Only reason not to trust him is if he’s an Angels fan that’s trolling the Dodgers

I hope to God you are right Fathom. That is certainly a possibility, although he posted it to the angels subreddit. I feel like if he was trolling he would've posted it to the dodgers subreddit, but it's still a possibility and hopefully the case

[fathom]

Just now, Jose Abreu said:

Yeah, that’s the ONLY reason.

He called the Bour thing 9 hours before announced. He obviously knows someone.  

[EvilJester99]

I won’t believe this until Harper actually signs somewhere.. only way to keep what little sanity I have left 

[Jose Abreu]

Just now, fathom said:

He called the Bour thing 9 hours before announced. He obviously knows someone.  

It’s far more likely that he tweets this stuff daily and then deletes the ones that aren’t true

[GenericUserName]

Assuming it is true, I wonder what other moves we are about to see the Dodgers make. 

[whitesoxwinner]

1 minute ago, fathom said:

He called the Bour thing 9 hours before announced. He obviously knows someone.  

At the moment he definitely has more credibility than not given the bour thing

[reiks12]

He elaborates in the comments that his source is a big leaguer.. one he has little faith in.. strange

[YouCanPutItOnTheBoardYES!]

Bour was a minor signing. Harper will be given the biggest contract in baseball history. I find it hard to believe that this guy would know about it before everyone else.

[GenericUserName]

Just now, Jose Abreu said:

It’s far more likely that he tweets this stuff daily and then deletes the ones that aren’t true

That was my firs thought too, but it wasn't a tweet. It was a post on a subreddit. From how the people responded to him it doesn't sound like he did it a bunch of times. It sounds from the Bour post like he posted it and everyone was skeptical and then suddenly he was right. 

[Flash Tizzle]

4 minutes ago, SonofaRoache said:

We aren't getting Machado. He wants to be out East. Probably the Yankees or Phillies. 

Then we’re in trouble as an organization if we’re unable to land either player. No one can deny they’ve placed themselves in their current position with low payroll obligations to have one. Hahn and KWs comments have only solidified that fact.

It’s a failure, no matter the excuse

[Jose Abreu]

1 minute ago, GenericUserName said:

Assuming it is true

I wouldn’t.

 

It’s crazy that you guys are all buying some nobody on this because he was right about Justin Bour, yet when similar accounts with similar track records (i.e.  being right about one thing one time) say that Harper is signing with the White Sox, they don’t even generate discussion.

[GenericUserName]

1 minute ago, Jose Abreu said:

I wouldn’t.

 

It’s crazy that you guys are all buying some nobody on this because he was right about Justin Bour, yet when similar accounts with similar track records (i.e.  being right about one thing one time) say that Harper is signing with the White Sox, they don’t even generate discussion.

I was more just trying to provoke discussion about what the Dodgers could do. 

[Bigsoxhurt35]

Meh, I don’t know how much stock I put into a third world source when he’s calling the Bryce Harper signing. That’s a pretty crazy thing to have 

[Bob Sacamano]

3 minutes ago, Jose Abreu said:

I wouldn’t.

 

It’s crazy that you guys are all buying some nobody on this because he was right about Justin Bour, yet when similar accounts with similar track records (i.e.  being right about one thing one time) say that Harper is signing with the White Sox, they don’t even generate discussion.

Yes, they definitely do.

Edited December 14, 2018 by soxfan2014

[Dam8610]

1 minute ago, Jose Abreu said:

I wouldn’t.

 

It’s crazy that you guys are all buying some nobody on this because he was right about Justin Bour, yet when similar accounts with similar track records (i.e.  being right about one thing one time) say that Harper is signing with the White Sox, they don’t even generate discussion.

The overwhelming bias of this board is to believe the White Sox are too cheap or incompetent to sign Harper or Machado, so here we are.

[daggins]

One correct signing is not a long track record, but also, this seems the most likely outcome, which is why I am going to believe it for now.

[Chi Town Sox]

11 minutes ago, turnin' two said:

What comments?

His ones yesterday that everybody was questioning and dissecting lol

[Jose Abreu]

1 minute ago, soxfan2014 said:

Yes, they definitely do.

Maybe the peavy44 stuff, but the Tyler Hunt tweets and the one from the guy with 150k followers (forgot his name) were largely ignored compared to this one

[daggins]

Recency bias is a hell of a drug.

[103 mph screwball]

If the Dodgers were to clear salary, anyone the Sox could get that would help?  I prefer Machado so, I'm not too concerned about what Bryce Heyward does.