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The only way to exert that pressure is by not showing up. If you do show up wear a bag over your head. SIgns probably would be confiscated no matter how politely negative they are and I don't trust Sox fans to be politely negative at all . Attendance under 1M might do the trick but if Eloy shows he is the real deal that might not be possible.

More research shows 90 players who have received contracts of at least $90M still not close to Abreu's $68M. https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/highest-paid-players/

Umm not one person has voted its Kenny's fault alone.

Reinsdorf of course. If there is one thing that has remained consistent it's that the Sox don't offer enough to get big name free agents. It was the same whether it was Williams or Hahn as the GM. I was trying to find out just how many +$70M contracts have been signed in baseball history but I gave up when I couldn't find an up to date list. I did find that 57 of the top 100 contracts of all time were baseball players and the lowest one from that group was Ken Griffey Jr. at $116.5M, and he's been retired for 10 years. I'll just guesstimate that there have been at least 100 contracts in the history of baseball that exceeded Abreu's Sox record of $68M. Might be 200 for all I know. If anyone has a way to find out be my guest. It's just a shame that guys who have been retired for 10 years had bigger contracts than any Sox player ever has. Kevin Brown got the 1st $100M contract in baseball history in 1998 . 20 years ago !

How many people on this board do you think care about Iowa basketball ? Trust me I held off saying this until I saw it at least 10 times recently in your avalanche of posts since the bungled signing of Machado. Yes and let's bring social issues like racism and anti-semitism into it as well by all means . Honestly just stick to the topic at hand and you will be fine.

It's all BS. I don't need to read another article to know they are full of shit. . They think their offer to Machado was better. After all according to Rosenthal all the incentives and vested options would make the contract worth $350M. SO which is it Hahn?KW/JR ? Can you afford $350M ? Or do you really know the chances of reaching those options and incentives was just a bullshit way to offer less and make it seem like more which anyone with half a brain could see through ? Apply the same thing to Harper. How could be be out of your range when you offered $350M to Machado ?

Hah ! I tried for years to get Avi some love. Little did I know that all it would take is business as usual for the Sox signing free agents and for him to be gone for him to get it. Holy moly 6 likes !

Pulled one from their arses last night. Sweep So Cal now.

No problem. He often gets overlooked when talking about the elite players.

You have to include Rendon in that list . Seager was injured last year and his fWAR in 2016 was 7.0 and 2017 was 5.9 totaling 12.9, 2015 was a rookie with limited AB's Bryant 2018 2.3 due to some injuries 2017 6.7 ,2016 7.9 , 2015 6.1. Totaling 19.7 Rendon 2016 4.3 , 2017 6.7 ,2018 6.3 Totaling 17.3 3 of last 5 year had 6+ Correa has never had a 6.0 War but he also has only had 1 season with over 600PA the rest have been in the 400's due to injuries and rookie year. Baez had a 5.3 last year which was his only year higher than a 2.3 . Breakout campaign to be sure but not enough great years yet to be called a superstar.

Maybe you shouldn't trust your feelings. They sort of betrayed you with Machado. Just like with Machado the fans don't matter when it comes to doing business. The fans only matter when looking for someone to blame.

Aren't we supposed to give links when quoting any particular article ?

You brought that subject up not chisox59 and all he said was well if that was the case he wouldn't be wasting service time. He never actually said he shouldn't have been brought up unless you had a previous disagreement with him where he did say that . You also were the one to bring up a grievance. So you re arguing about something that didn't happen and a grievance that probably never would have been filed had it happened. I'll bow out now. Just seems rather silly, moot. irrelevant immaterial and inconsequential for both of you.

Some of you guys are as clingy as hemorrhoids. Why chase info they don't have. Chill. Nothing they say will resolve the situation any faster . Do you actually need someone to get your hopes up ? There are plenty of good posts pro and con about the Sox chances of signing of Harper. Pick the ones that make the most sense to you if you can't make up your mind then also choose he won't sign with the Sox to temper your expectations.

Are we arguing the merits of a grievance that never existed nor was ever hinted at ?

I do.

Only Soxtalk can turn a fart into napalm.

It's a hell of a deal for Hicks . He is like the guy the Sox are trying to turn Adam Engel into. He was nothing until he was 27. Only 2 years of actually being a good player. I'm pretty sure the thoughts of perhaps having to get a real job as recently as a few years ago make a 7 year $70M contract at age 29 look like he hit the lottery.

Is being "elevated" some kind of new medical treatment ? Oh Maybe good OLD Bruce meant evaluated.

Maybe someone should fix all the mistakes in that article. Covey hasn't been outrighted to Charlotte either has he ? Gomex is still there in the article, I don't think the Sox still have Bruce Rondon or Diego Goris ?

That doesn't mean they won't try again, They will . We all know that. Plenty of really good FA's next year.

Not a teachable moment for us. Maybe for them but maybe not. We'll see what Harper ends up going for. If it's in the $325M range when the Sox supposed offer to Machado was a whopping $350M (according to Rosenthal) if all incentives were met and all options vested then they easily could offer $325 guaranteed to Harper. Let's see what they learned shall we ?

Maybe ,Doesn't matter , Water under the bridge. No way to know for sure. If anyone wants to imagine that's the case to make themselves feel worse go for it.