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I think the majority of fans feel this way, the Sox haven’t been legit players in a big free agent of Machado/Harper magnitude for a really long time so frustration and negative thinking is the norm. IMO i feel like his sources thinking is probably how 75 percent of fans thinking. With all of that said, having a feeling versus being told things aren’t looking good are two totally different topics

even if it was omg good news mannys signing is imminent you have to take everything with a grain of salt until some national writers start talking about it, I just don’t believe anything at the moment. More clarity will come in the upcoming days after this meeting with Philly

Maybe his bad news is he doesn’t have any new news at all or maybe his source didn’t show up to the birthday party or maybe his source doesn’t have any inside info on the manny situation, wait and we shall see

Any word on when they are supposed to meet today?

https://www.ibtimes.com/yankees-rumors-manny-machado-still-new-yorks-radar-after-recent-trades-signings-2751512

No doubt they needed a coach, they were one of the worst infields in all of baseball last year, still with that move I don’t see how it puts philly on an even playing field with the Sox. The only way I see Manny getting outside our grasps is if we don’t pay the guy, Philly has stupid money but I don’t view them as that much of a threat

Yeah this, no chance Mike Trout picks the Whitesox over all the other suitors he’s going to have, I think we have been lucky and gotten as far as we have with these two because of how few teams are in the race for them. Strike now, sign both and continue the push forward with the rebuild

Maybe because they have nothing and are grasping at straws, if they don’t land him they can just fire the infield coach not a big deal, no harm no foul sort of deal.

You think an infield coach trumps your brother in law and one of your best friends? I agree these people won’t be any deal breaking move and it will come down to money but I think the point was they are going to be in this thing until the end,

We’ve heard from numerous people in this thread that the Whitesox are not being cheap here, have a little faith, they didn’t trade for Alonso and sign Jay for nothing just to let manny walk to Philly

I think manny is waiting for this thread count to get closer to the total number of millions he’s going to make in his next contract before he signs ? in all seriousness I can’t see this dragging on too much longer probably reaching a decision early next week by the way things are looking

I don’t think you get Alonso and Jay without being committed to landing Machado, but I really do believe they are trying to get Machado at enough of a discount to make a serious push for Harper as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1083919458895163392 anyone subscribe to the athletic? Rosenthal wrote something about yanks and machado

Hold the birthday gift hostage until you get the inside info!

Until the Sox become relevant again we won’t be

Still wow at the fact of adding a 30M dollar player only puts them at the 110M mark, really would like them to finish this with Manny and go hard for Harper

Don’t know if this has been reported but an interesting idea for the Phillies to consider none the less https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2815069-forget-bryce-harper-phillies-can-plan-700m-manny-machado-mike-trout-pairing

That’s never going to happen, will be truly shocked if Harper signs before Manny

Exactly because if Harper signs tomorrow with Philly and they are out on Machado it will only leave the Whitesox as suitors and it’s a done deal at that point, we are in the final 2 minutes of the 4th quarter folks. Strap it down and get ready!

If you are machados camp and it’s obvious it’s down to Chicago and Philly you create the idea of a mystery team because at this point you don’t have much more leverage left without another team involved, pretty simple

?? notice they didn’t say the Yankees, personally the mystery team is always there, mlb network was making fun of the mystery team during the winter meetings, it’s all smoke to drive up the price

There is always a mystery team, non news for now

If your sports team has had a silver spoon in its mouth for over the past 20 years, yes most people would take what they’ve had for granted and act this way, no doubt

https://mobile.twitter.com/DanClarkSports/status/1083854914327998464 at least he was a man of his word and donated some money to charity

You can say that and be 100 percent correct about Dan Clark but there is too much smoke that has been repeated almost word for word at times from what WSD has said and then other national reporters tweeting out days later the same thing he said, so I don’t think he’s throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks. He had the Tulo deal, he’s had the mixed feelings on Machado and the Yanks front office just to name a few.