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I still think if the Sox can close the deal with Machado they will make a hard push at Harper trying to steal him out from underneath the Phillies, just got that gut feeling

Because it’s sunday at 3:18, just give it awhile till like 7 tonight till the next rumor comes out that the mystery team is the leader ? everything changes on an hourly basis

Sox need to wrap this up tomorrow! Bring it home RH!

It’s Sunday I doubt any real news will be reported until tomorrow, i would enjoy the break while we have it ?

The jury is still out on him, wouldn’t call him a success story

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it ends for Machado this week. It seems to finally be dying down and I don’t think Machados agent has much ammo left for posturing, hence the “mystery” team coming into the picture at the last minute.

It’s $ right now man, if he was going to the Yankees it would have happened already, a game of chicken at the moment, be patient, I don’t think anyone is just dieing to play for the Chicago Whitesox, get the money to where it needs to be and he signs

It’s going to affect the next 8-10 years of his life, waiting two months to get every last penny and the exact situation he wants is nothing is the grand scheme of things. We are talking about 2 generational talents here, uncharted territory for whitesox fans I know but even JD Martinez did not sign until spring training started last year.

Wow a day of no news and this thread goes bi polar and automatically thinks the Sox aren’t in a good position. Nothing and I mean nothing has come from this past week that has been negative from the press about the whitesox chances. In fact we got great news about the Yankees probably being out with the Le Mahieu signing. In my opinion we are in the drivers seat for now. Calm down folks, have faith good things will come.

In all fairness their infield defense was terrible and needed to fill the position, it just helps he is connected to Manny but I don’t think the coach moves the needle one way or another. The stupid money would though.

Out of nowhere and under the radar? They have been linked to both quite frequently and at the forefront of conversations just like the Whitesox.

Any organization who has failed at landing the big fish and are legit contenders to land one now doesn’t move on, you would be a fool to do that. I get frustration but you’ve gone to the obvious and acquired his brother in law and work out partner to entice him to sign, you don’t get up from the table on a franchise changing player like this.

Amen

Hahaha I was way off on that reading that one then, thought you might be in the crowd that is dooming and glooming not believing sources and just want it to be over or something ??

No one is making you read it, but let’s face it the suspense can’t get you away from it so you will continue to do so until one is signed, just like everyone else here is doing ?

Yep, both these guys want paid, a presentation doesn’t mean anything to these guys.

Decision day hopefully

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.