fathom

They literally had the answer to the test question all along (10/300), yet they kept trying to convince the teacher the answer wasn’t correct. I just don’t get it. Yesterday I was stunned, today I’m just pissed and can’t believe members of the media are sticking up for them.

Yep we somehow have spent 40 million and are worse than last year while having less players on the roster that could potentially become core pieces (Avi and Omar).

Harper won’t sign with a rebuilding team though. He wants to win, and right away.

Also Manny has no idea who the owner will be come years 9 and 10? What if it’s someone desperate to keep payroll low and does everything he can to make sure those benchmarks aren’t met. He chose the better deal, and it’s not even close. If the Phillies were willing to do opt-outs, I’m not so sure the Sox offer was even 2nd best.

It was a direct quote from Hahn, but then Hahn seemed to contradict that statement

Maybe my favorite tweet I've seen, followed by my least favorite:

You mean why a team would purposefully throw doubt into the public's mind about how high they'd really be willing to go?

Root for Eloy and Yoan to be awesome. That's about it at the big league level.

It will be Engel in CF and Jay in LF after Jimenez and Yoan collide on a pop up and they both tear their ACLs. This will lead the way for the best acquisition of the offseason, Chris Johnson, to take over at 3rd base. After he puts up a strong 0.5 fWAR season, Hahn will sign him to a 2-year extension and say this deal would have never been possible if they had money on the books 9 years from now.

I think the whole "we can't go to the 300 level" is just their excuse for deciding not to bid against themselves and being wrong in calling Lozano's bluff.

It seems really obvious to me now after reading up more that the Sox thought Lozano was bluffing about having 300 million on the table. That's the only way they could have been so shocked this morning.

Wow, haven't seen this quote yet: "I've never been so (ticked) off in my (expletive) life," vice president Kenny Williams said. https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20190219/white-sox-angry-disappointed-after-machado-decides-to-sign-with-padres

Finally saw the video of Hahn's comments. Holy cow, he looked like his dog died.

Didn't he say a few years ago that he's now a Cubs fan because they're good?

Bob saying the Sox haven't talked to Harper in months: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2019/02/19/manny-machado-san-diego-padres-eric-hosmer-wil-myers/2920087002/

That was the long-winded way of saying he thinks Manny would have been unhappy here....and I agree.

Cuban is never going to happen, especially after the HR issues with the Mavericks. He's lucky the NBA didn't make him sell the team.

Almora, so Manny signs here in 5 years

Yep, there's literally not one thing you can point to now and say "they do this aspect well". Even the "magic" of Cooper seems like ancient history.

To be fair, it sounded like a direct quote from Hahn. However, his next tweet was this:

Since when do people take Kenny's words as gospel?

Yep, I'm easily more frustrated about the incompetence of this organization instead of them not actually having Manny.

They technically were regarding the Sox contract offer.

This isn’t sour grapes, as I have said this to many posters on here, but I hate Manny and think most of us would have grown sick of his antics here. To me, I was more wanting the Sox to sign him to be relevant. All this offseason has done is make the Sox more irrelevant, which seemed hard to do. The fan base is so upset now, it doesn’t seem like there’s much they can do to get people off the ledge.