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In all honesty this couldn’t have played out any worse for Boras, he is left with the Phillies offer and the shit show of the Chicago Whitesox who are incompetent so basically the Phillies, so any real chance to drive up harpers price in my opinion went out the window

Yep..... without lucking into MJ this dude would only have one championship to his name with two franchises in one of the biggest markets in the USA.....

Yeah JR is the one who needs to come out with a statement, he’s probably celebrating on how much $$ he now gets to pocket by losing out on Machado. Is it a coincidence that he employs clowns in both organizations he owns?

I don’t necessarily know if I can blame Hahn for this though, this has JR stench all over it. It sounds like he didn’t want to push the 300 mil guaranteed and this was the only play Hahn had was to have the signing be incentive based to have a competitive offer over 300 mil

To me this goes back to what I was saying earlier. The Whitesox were not in a position to call anyone’s bluff on a take it or leave it scenario whether be setting a deadline or being cautious with the money. This is essentially what happened. The agent said we got someone at 300 mil, the Sox called their bluff and said no and we lost out on what we really thought we had in the bag. They will continue to lose out on big named free agents with having the worries of saving a buck mentality JR has. It’s sad, but true you can’t have nice things thinking that way especially when going into this offseason it was well known both Harper and Machado were looking for around 300 mil...

Oh I agree was just venting, the score had been like a whitesox funeral today.....

What is an extra 5 mil over 10 years gonna do to your pocket book later down the line even if he regresses??

Ha....cmon man I think there needs to many more steps than 5, I’ve been on the road all damn day and can’t get past anger and depression and to think about Harper now not coming here is crazy lol

All of these leaks smell like Jerry was too cheap to guarantee 300 but would be willing to go to 350 with incentives....cheap bastard

Meh he’s not coming here anyways so who cares.......today is depressing

Proud of the offer? Cmon man, they didn’t land the guy because the Sox wouldn’t pony up the guaranteed money but blew 13 mil in Jay and Alonso instead and still missed

If Lozano contacted them saying this is final chance to match the offer and they thought he was bluffing every single damn one of them in the front office needs to be shitcanned

Yay for this rebuild!!!

Wow.....

I like his never ending optimism though

Nailed it

Sounds like he also said that the ownership for Philly and San Diego prefer Harper over Machado....so there is that

When Rosenthal tweets please listen......he was spot on with the Alonso move. He’s not the guy to throw shit at the wall to see if it sticks.....hopefully with his comments this comes to a close within the next few days....

He knows nothing, just trolling...

91 members here to see SS2K5 and Peavy argue it out.....twitter please help us....?

Not everyone likes mediocrity, yes it’s not life and death by no means but dedicating time and money to a consistently terrible product gets old. I enjoy going to the ball park as well just like most others l, but it would be nice to have some spark to a young team that has gone nowhere as of late and finally get headed in the right direction...

I wouldnt call what they have run out there for the past 10 years exactly entertainment....

I mean he is technically there right now until towards the end of spring training.....

This....back away from the ledge everyone....