Chicago White Sox

Yup, just got to hope the recent smoke was leading up to something.

Tomorrow is Wednesday, maybe just maybe something finally happens.

If a national guy gets the scoop, it should be him.

What you hearing bucket? Please give us something to run with.

Thanks and I agree that at some point we got to stop messing around. I’ll keep saying it, but I think 8/$280M or 9/$300M is what it’s going take to end this standoff.

Bob Nightengale apparently said on the radio our offer might be under $200M and then he tweeted Harper and/or Machado will be a Phillie.

Exactly, which is why we should be excited every time Bob tweets these weak ass offers. Dude is practically on our payroll and his only responsibility is to create misdirection.

Especially that whiny b**** Pnoles.

Yup, that’s what I’m thinking as well. You only leak a lower offer to make the Phillies think they’re sitting pretty.

100% agree. We want low numbers being reported by Nightengal / Bruce and higher numbers by anyone else.

Lol...they also don’t understand why we traded for Alonso and keep evaluating the trade as if was strictly a baseball move.

He must be from the SoxMachine / SSS community, because all those guys were enraged we didn’t burn a year of service time last year with Eloy.

Shack, you think the 8/$250M offer is bullshit then?

I will say this, I’ve never been more confident we land a whale as the Sox would be committing franchise suicide by putting it out there we never made a serious offer. And 7/$210M (or less) definitely fits that billing.

Mbs, what’s your take on the 7 vs 8 year offer nonsense?

I still believe the 8/$250M offer is real, even if it wasn’t submitted formally.

Nope, I’m getting crunk and heading down to Grandstand to get four custom Machado jerseys made for me and my kids, although maybe not in that order.

Would be a great way to steal some headlines!

Lol...god I hate Nightgale. What a fucking hack.

Lol...I never said I wasn’t part of that vicious cycle!

Two in the top 5 to be exact, plus Kopech with best fastball & slider and Cease with best curveball.

Lock up Lopez please.

I still think there is a chance we land two whales (even Phil Rogers agrees with me ?), but I only make those declarations about once a week so it didn’t fit the daily narrative unfortunately.

Catching up in this tread, I just realized every single day is the same: People wake up pisssd off that nothing has happened Several people then claim things are quiet because it’s “the calm before the storm” Posters get desperate and start posting blantantly obvious troll posts “it’s probably nothing, but anyone see this [John] tweet?” Sidebars start ensuring about riveting subjects such as model trains, favorite movie in the Pitch Perfect franchise, etc. Posters start getting desperate again and ask the board insiders for any nuggets, eventually one will show up but only provides vague, semi-positive comments like “be patient, things are happening” Caulfield posts a random article without a link and not in a quote box and proceeds to add his own commentary throughout People start getting really pissed about the lack of momentum and say Rick is an incompetent dick and that cheap Jerry should move the franchise to Portland Finally a rumor comes out from a twitter account with a blue check mark, the board completely loses its shit no matter if good or bad If positive, mock lineups are immediately generated (half with Harper); if negative several posters admit defeat & feel compelled to say we must “stay the course” Bob Nightengale tweets out within 30 minutes “sorry, but that’s not true!”; the board calls him a hack and then debates endlessly who planted what Nothing else happens for a few hours, but some posters remain optimistic something will break later that night and make it clear they’re sticking around Finally the day ends with no real news, but one poster makes the bold prediction “tomorrow will be the day” before we all call it quits for the night Wake up the next day and rinse & fucking repeat. I pray to the baseball gods that by the time I catch up there will be some legit rumors, because I honestly can’t take this endless cycle much longer.