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Said something like it months ago but Jerry’s dream wasn’t to sign Machado it was to sign machado with a contract that he could brag and shame other owners about on how to treat labor.

Aren’t enough national media dragging the white Sox. Good on Claire mcnear https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/2/20/18232714/manny-machado-white-sox-whiff-free-agency?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I wouldn’t mind an owner whose a fan of baseball being good

“Sure but depending on how much you spend at Cheesecake Factory our unlimited 15% off card could easily outweigh their guaranteed money!”

God that article says they came to us with a 280 offer and Sox said “here’s 250” ?

Just unfollowed manny on IG

This is what Preller does.

I love how Sox and reinsdorf live in this bubble where they think they can force the will of how baseball should operate and anyone should give a shit. But Im sure JR is doing his thing where he hamstrings the white Sox so he can play the noble martyr and shame the other owners into putting it in the next CBA that opt outs are illegal. Just like how we were forced to never go over slot when that wasn’t a thing. No big deal, just completely destroyed our farm for a decade.

No way according to KWs 10 year timeline that may impact signing players we have no idea if they are good.

Seriously. If we would have polled I guarantee. Machado was 10/300 and Bryce was 10/350

Exactly right.

Give me a break. If they were so committed just guarantee it

If teams don’t want you to hit your vesting option, you won’t hit it.

Or they platoon him at DH.

Damn can’t wait to be so wise

I think this may be true.

Ah sorry everyone. Let’s please discuss on the baseball message board how nothing actually matters and we should all just be happy there is no 500 internal service error. Sounds fun.

dude don't bother telling me that. My favorite teams are bulls and sox. This is torture. I know they are stuck and it won't change!

I feel like sox biggest problem is psychological. They lack ambition. They look at their international free agency and think "see? Micker Adolfo, Fernando Tatis, we are improving!" They are not comparing themselves against the best. They should want to be the yankees and braves or padres at intl fa. They look at drafting and say "look! Tim anderson in bigs, rodon in bigs, we are getting better!" They should be comparing themselves to the dodgers, astros and indians at drafting. They look at free agency and say "look we were at the table!" They should want to be david stearns good at free agency. They aren't concerned about what others are doing because they thing their process is improving. But it ain't enough!

Keuchel is a nice guy at least.

Oh man, yeah. Sigh, because I'm a sadist. I do think it's worth getting marwin and seeing if he turns it around. I am legit angry we traded for alonso and didn't give avi at bats again.

"If we do this, i will not sign a Mat Latos or Miguel Gonzalez ever again"

Why don't our lotto tickets ever hit again?

at least we have the best beat writer in baseball.

no please no. The problem is with machado/harper you had pieces part of a sustained run. This is just artificially propping up 2019-20/2020-21 when maybe you should just let it ride and allow more flexibility.