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You should ask "your source"

15 years and one World Series later...and I'm still rated "Neutral" like Switzerland. LOL.

I have reported more about the White Sox than anyone who is not paid to do it. I have time stamps. You are giving me shit for having a New York Times Best Selling author who wrote a book on the White Sox on a podcast. You are also an internet troll who's opinion has never once been lauded or quoted or requested but it has always been tormented. Have a good night.

Boy, this is the most derailed thread ever lol

13 year lurker here...... handful of posts

That Philly meathead mighta sealed the deal in our Sox favor lol

Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of my last post. I come lurking for the daily rumors but stay for the bickering. Hoping the Cheat pops in too.

Long time lurker, setup an account a long time ago and just never posted anything.

So, just to join the feel good Soxtalk reunion tour apparently occurring in this thread; long time lurker, never registered. Until now. Like a lot of you I’m sick of the media not giving the Sox even the slightest chance at landing Harper or Machado. I don’t participate on Twitter, basically because I’m so old I fart dust, but I am hereby requesting assistance from all of you who are. I get that the odds might be against us, but if the Sox do sign one of them I would like all of you who are on Twitter to relentlessly, repeatedly, publicly, unapologetically, and with total impunity rub it in their collective face. Reveal them for the pond scum they truly are. If the Sox somehow manage to sign both, go nuclear on their ass! Thank you for your assistance. Carry on.

... you realize that we know that you are literally one of his Facebook sources, right?

A Song of Manny and Harper?

I love how the biggest piece of evidence in this article is Stroman’s tweet. What. A. Joke.

Dude, why are you trying to derail the thread with this crap?

I'm old enough to remember when this thread was for specious rumors.

Longtime lurker first on WSI and now much happier here. I love getting all the news and not so real news from real fans. Keep up the great work.

In perhaps the absolute lamest correlation ever, this thread is like Pitch Perfect 2 when the old Bellas of the past team up with the new Bellas to take out the evil Germans to win the World A Capella Championship only this time the Germans are the Yanks and Phillies and that championship is Machado and or Harper. I'll see myself out lol

I mean...mods really can’t do anything about this? This board is dropping in quality by the hour. It’s just spam at this point. Make it stop.

What a shit storm this place has become.

Why is there any reason to believe @raBBit? Because he coddles ben Shapiro's sack in his mouth? I have little reason to believe him after that sad little temper tantrum he threw after the Sox signed Alonso. That was embarrassing tbh. I don't see why we should put any more stock into his views than we do to peavy44's views.

This is the most depressing thing anyone has ever typed.

Can someone please ban this guy

Boiler up! Glad Brohm is staying.

This isn't lame, this is fantastic. I demand every post reference one of the Pitch Perfects going forward. Thanks.

Another longtime lurker says hi :)

I have to say, it is incredibly awesome to see so many familiar "faces". It is like a high school reunion, but with less gray hair and belly fat.

I've been on and off lurking this board for 12 years now. Great time for my first post! And this is the post that got me out. I am not the Roman who apparently was a jackass on here, but I used to post as TheOldRoman on WSI, for maybe 6 years or so. Then the board dwindled, the mods became overbearing, and I just decided to leave. I've checked back there a few times since leaving, and WSI is a ghost town now, consisting entirely of the people who made me want to leave. Anyway, my former screen name was taken when I tried to register here, so I just went with this. I haven't posted on any Sox site in years, so I figured this is as good a time as any to come out of the shadows. Hi, everybody!

Who was the poster who started a thread about Juan Uribe 6-8 months ago who was seemingly stuck in 2005 still? That guy ruled.

Signing either player will be a huge step towards legitimizing our rebuild to the public. I agree with your chicken/egg scenario, especially when it comes to fan perception. I know must on these forums, the die-hard Sox fans, know Machado or Harper alone isn’t going to be that missing piece to a World Series. What it does most importantly is create buzz, increase revenue (whether through ticket sales or merchandise) and get the casual fans excited for the future. There WILL be more fans in seats. Is it unreasonable to expect a minimum, 10-15 game turnaround in the standings? And that will be considered a success! It can be spun as improvement, a step towards building a consistent playoff contender. We no longer can say, “can’t spend a dollar when you have 50 cents” because at this moment, we have the capability of signing either player. I compare this point in time to the rebuild before it began. Some were afraid the fans would further abandon the team, or that management would screw everything up and further delay our return to the playoffs. It was almost this complacency of, well - we haven’t done it before, so that means we probably won’t do it. No, we haven’t broken the piggy bank open in quite awhile; but maybe now we should. Of course the signing could fail and either player could be ineffective/injured; thus financially crippling us. But it’s worth trying to improve the team through means previously untouched, much like the rebuild. We have the resources to get it done, and in this division, an unexpected year from a few players may be enough to atleast have September baseball mean something again

The White Sox biggest problem is obviously their irrelevance. It is something they have seemingly accepted the last decade. Even when they are “going for it” they do it like the Reds or Pirates would do it. Not like the teams that these guys really want to play for do it. Signing one of these guys will help them perhaps overcome this. But it’s a chicken/egg thing. I fully expect to hear Harper and/or Machado say some really nice things about the White Sox, just like Torii Hunter after he blew KW off., when they blow off the team. Some will thinkthat means the team turned a corner. To me, for that corner to be turned the target needs to be signed.

It makes me feel old when I see posters that were teens on here that are now professionals in the media. I'm proud of them, we'll always have Omit Timo

I know this is ridiculous but I'm getting to the point where I just want to land one of these guys just to spite the media and casual fans.

Well seems pretty obvious that Manny is going to go first. I don't see much reason for him to drag this on any further unless there are more teams legitimately in the running than the Sox, Phillies and Yankees. Only way I see this dragging on is if if the best offers are in the $250M-$270M range right now and teams aren't willing to negotiate against themselves quite yet. By all indications, Harper is not an option for the Yankees. Apparently Harper does not want to go to Philly. The Cubs and Dodgers are out unless they move a shit load of money the next few weeks. Who else is there? Obviously the line of suitors would be long if his price dropped significantly, but just assume he's getting something north of $325M over 10 years...who else is there? I think if the Sox get MM secured in the next week, the heat really goes up on the Cubs and Dodgers to try to move money, and if they can't, I think the Sox are in a fantastic position to get both IF JR is really willing to give out $700M to 2 players in one offseason.

my source told me they are waiting until this thread hits page 100 to announce the deal

You should stop being a perpetual asshole.

Machado planned this tour a while back. If it was always the Yankees hed have scheduled them last.

Welcome aboard!!!

Another lurker here! ?

You certainly are not the only one. My recommendation is to temper expectations of a Harper/Machado signing greatly to help. If you do not expect either to happen it makes things easier and you can remain skeptically optimistic

Hah! I might be the longest tenured member with the lowest (or near lowest) number of posts. Lurker level: master... ?

Glad to know I am not the only lurker.

I'm also around lurking. I'm probably not noteworthy though except for those times we worked to get banned from that other board.

That '59 season is what made me a life-long Sox fan. My father was extremely hyped over the evil empire not winning and his enthusiasm branded me for life. I stayed home from school and got to see Mazeroski stick it to the Yanks the next year. Luckily a note for my school absence wasn't an issue.

? I have less than 100 posts in 13 years. I probably don't matter, just wanted to say it's nice to see the old regulars.

It's the real soxtalk WHarris1, who is also a legend

me

I picked a random game thread in September of ‘05, and lo and behold, there was fathom being negative (at least he was talking about pre-ALDS El Duque). ElRockinMT was still being super positive, too. Or is EMinor3rd the eternal optimist? Wish I remembered my old screen names. Seems like getting banned every few months on ESPN, then MLB, then Soxtalk was an online teenage tradition for me. I don’t think I ever lasted more than a week or so on WSI, for what it’s worth.

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This Brian guy is such a Phony wasnt he going off wall few days ago lol.