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Yea agreed. I can’t believe that’s the best. The ESPN boards were the coolest thing to ever exist online

Can somebody photoshop Anderson with catching gear on, maybe holding his mask with a backwards helmet? Banner update

Is there anywhere on the Internet where fans from all teams have threads updating nonstop discussing all this stuff. Like the way we are right now sniffing ever twitter, but not just Sox fans. The espn boards would be awesome now in the Twitter age. Anybody know anywhere?

It’s going to be great soon. That pitching staff alone was $130M last year and it’s about to get way older and way more expensive...right when the “core” of shitty position players is at the end of team control. I wouldn’t sign there if I was a FA unless they guaranteed $300M+ payrolls

Yea totally. I think the problem has a lot to do with pride. For some reason on this planet, people think it’s cool to find something out before others. Unfortunately due to social media, that human disease is now infecting its way into offseason baseball. None of it matters until the White Sox issue a statement saying “We signed so and so.” But for some reason, pride has overun fun speculation among fans. The big guys like Rosenthal have a lot to blame because they give props to whoever breaks a story...which is absolutely insane to me! These aren’t fucking stories; it’s sports. The story is when somebody signs officially, not a moment before! But we are forced to partake as fans now! Rant over since I have to go check Twitter

“Putting his blogging or whatever he does career on the line”. ? ?? Lives are at stake! Trying to scoop sports news should be a felony. Just STFU and wait for the teams to announce news. Why do we need speculative Pre-News before News?

Definitely less crime around here. Been meaning to give you props

Trout could sign a deal for any number of years: 4 years, 6 years, 8 years, even 9 years or 12 years, and for any amount. Seems $40M AAV is the starting point but I could see him getting $50-$60M. Hell, Stanton, Greinke & Kershaw are $30M players and add Harper & Machado to that list soon. Then you got your other guys like Bogaerts and Goldschmidt who could cash in and maybe they slide on the backside of deals for Moustakas (who you mention- $25M for 5.5yrs?). So you’re looking at shelling out a quarter of payroll for Goldschmidt, Bogaerts and a Rendon. Rendon is a wildcard; Does he resign? Does he go out West and join Kershaw & Hill (if he doesn’t leave. He might want a reunion with the cubs)? Does Arenado sign a 4 year deal like Harper and Machado? Think it all depends on Lemahieu and the direction the Rockies want to go- maybe the Rockies back up the wagon for trout and offer him the $65M AAV K. Perry talked about. Seems ridiculous to me. Thats why we should put feelers out for a Sale reunion (hopefully he talks his other Florida buddies into joining the Sox). All depends on Grandal for Sale and Rendon. Arenado is a pipe dream but that’s probably what the Yankees thought about Stanton, Judge & Andújar. Just look at the history of baseball and back in the late 80s before the Thomas Griffey revolution. I agree though on Moustakas & Grandal being the X factors.

I agree. I think he signs pretty quick after the new year; just seems like he knows his options more than Harper does.

You said this as fact (which would require a source) instead of speculating like the rest of us dumb fans are

I don’t think he is worth it. If you look exclusively at WAR then maaaaybe at that price. But his offense is terrible. What if you had 9 guys with good defense and decent WARs and all had .700 OPSs

Yes. Never in the history of baseball has a team had this collection of talent.

Just kidding around. Probably similar age. Same with the Hurt. I loved hearing Hawk say “here’s karkovice, he’s 0-3. Officer is due”. I was a big fan of JB too.

Garfien’s pubes will uncurl- that will be the sign.

Haha classssic deflection

2005 bandwagon club president

It looks like 2 to me. 1 is chugging down some koolaid bros

Man I’m not seeing that! Just a bunch of loudness and then a face. I want to see it I want to believe!

Will you message some of us so we know which new name is yours?

Agree. All 3 settles it though

Not as much as bMFh though

Agreed. It has to happen at some point. If he wants to stay here long term I’m sure he will do whatever is best for the team. I doubt it’s the point of contention we sometimes make it out to be

sad to see Call go.

Right??! but then again if the families are super close then maybe they want to live in the same city. If we traded for Machado first then maybe the Indians would have charged us more for Alonso.

Kinda pathetic if we signed his family in order to say “hey we signed yonder for you.” Kinds creepy actually. I hope that’s not what this is.