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No, there were 2 teams coming into the offseason ready to spend. Padres only jumped in cause Sox were playing not to lose.

They really didn’t anticipate this backlash. Just another thing these idiots didn’t anticipate.

All three of them met in person with Lozano on Monday

All I'm waiting for now is to hear Hahn thought Lozano was bluffing about there being a higher offer, while KW was adamant they should go higher (or vice versa). Something definitely strange took place, as I can't imagine KW saying how pissed off he was if it was simply not being able to hit the 300 mark.

I prefer having the Phillies think Boras is bluffing about higher offers and them only sticking to their offer, and then Boras saying "fine, you're out" to Phillies. I'm sure that would never work in the world of professional sports though

Nope, just Padres

Actually that was the biggest fear, as well as their inability to develop players and failures in free agency.

As well as not making a single coaching change when your team sucked in every category.

I'm pretty sure my 2 year old could have had a better offseason than Hahn. At least he knows not to trade for Fozzie and Animal until Kermit signs on the dotted line.

I'm not attending a single game this year.

How is every Sox writer/blogger not demanding Hahn be fired? This offseason is completely inexcusable.

Because they didn't think that number existed from another team.

So just listened to Hahn on the Kaplan show, and holy cow does the organization sound worse and worse as the hours go on. He told Kaplan that he agreed that he wishes things weren't so visible about their attempts to get Manny. Wasn't Rick the same one that interrupted a lineup question to Renteria to say something along the lines of "who knows if a 3-4-5 hitter is added"? Also Hahn again said how much happier he is that the Sox were involved in this than if they were on the sidelines.

They're going to get another starting pitcher. At this point, I would be furious if they sign CarGo or Jones.

Yep, worse than White Flag Trade by far

Also makes you think they convinced themselves to go for it, so if 300 was matched, do they go back up to 320? No one will ever really know.

Nah, I think they sign Marwin Gonzales and Ervin Santana

Phillies not going to a huge number for Manny or Corbin is overrated. It's very likely they were reserved with those two because Bryce is their main target and they need to make sure to have enough to get him.

To be fair, one thing we don't know is if the Padres would have gone even higher than 10/300 if the Sox were willing to hit 300?

And don't worry, teams budget for 300 million dollar deals for a long time and won't just decide at the last second to throw their hat in the race

anything else of interest?

Don't worry, we now have Yonder saying how amazing San Diego is.

Hahn himself said the chances were less than 50/50...what a bunch of idiots

It's like this organization is purposefully trying to piss people off

poor Yonder