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Is this really for Call? Damn. Alonzo should have been close to free. I was looking at Call as a future trade piece for somebody good.

Is all this Harper talk a smokescreen and we’re really sneakily pushing Machado?

Yea for sure. It would suck to be a player for one of these big dogs only to get all contracty-weird at the finish line. The times are a changing on the south side

I think Kenny & Rick love Soxtalk, so I have no doubt that one of their secret screennames is going to notify us that Santa will be delivering presents this year. I’d look out for that post on here. ???

Nice keystroke combination here Cali. Sums it up perfectly. Cubs Harper, Sox Machado would be impossible to read about in Chicago sports media. That can’t happen

Peavy44 you have my word that my promise is like the strongest pie crust ever made

The last part of this is correct.

I think ShotFire is trolling. Nobody could possibly think that; Herm is universally loved by everybody and has maybe the greatest track record of any trainer in the history of athletic activity.

Cano at 5yrs/63M. A little over 12M a year has plenty of potential for surplus value all over the place. Diaz for the prospects seems pretty fair I don’t see the huge Golden Fleece here ?

I see how this could be a fabulous move.

If somebody mentions that BA is an obsolete stat I’m going to hate you, personally. It’s okay to talk BA. Hitting the ball is exciting, let it slide. The one thing i will take away from your post is that Avi might be one seriously motivated dude to land a huge contract. I’d love to cash in on that.

They could suck more somehow.

Yep! And there have been very very very few examples of sustainable winning ball clubs in the entire history of baseball. It’s not like we are this one loner team so poorly run. If you ain’t a cardinals or Yankees fan you probably have a long history of generally poor performance

There is no mental side of the game apparently

Eh, no need for sour grapes- it’s just baseball. It’s been mentioned a million times but the Sox were competitive for about 15 straight years, usually a piece short. Lets give them a chance to rebuild it since they’ve never tried before.

This tells me that everybody needs to shut up about first basemen being a dime a dozen. Something changed- most of them suck now.

Funny. But “Anderson to Catcher” should replace “Soxtalk.com” on the banner.

Hell yea. Personal reasons my ass. I think he sees some serious regression coming and he doesn’t want to get blamed. Now he has a clean slate to interview after the season.

Do you think that 23-24 of the next 25 competitive roster spots are going to come from our current system?

Let’s wait for the presser before jumping to conclusions.

Fuck career backup David ross. Fuck him being called rossy. Fuck him getting a pre retirement tour that shit all over that nice gesture. Fuck the cubs

What does that refer to? False reports of anything in general? I remember in high school, the making shit up about people to hurt them seemed to be much higher, like around 90% of malicious stories heard. Glad to see it goes down to a respectable 4-8% once we turn 18! ?

Fixed it for you. Caulfield please be careful- nobody wants the thread closed because of random, stream-of-consciousness tangents. We love you, but that stuff doesn’t belong here in a fine-line, filibuster-style thread, shortly after the filibuster closed. MOD audition over.

Yea this is the unique opportunity to get value out of a big FA signing. Anything other than Harper, and I guess Machado too, is just rolling the dice as usual on near-30 FA. I don’t think the team is ready for the usual dice-rolling approach. I feel like it’s the big guys of bust (filler crap pieces). I wouldn’t want to spend $150M trying to piece in aging veterans.

?yiiiikes. “Outrage culture” is the best term I’ve heard to describe what’s been going on lately