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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.

I think he was saying Machado to the Sox last week while watching his show as well so I don’t think it’s based on a source just his ever changing gut feeling

Same here, I figured orioles guy, regardless if he worked for MASN or not and wanting to be a sports writer etc, had no skin in the game to lie.

To clear up and confusion Kevin Millar did say today on intentional talk he thinks Harper to Phillies and Machado to the Whitesox

Good ol Chuck Garfien getting in on the Dan Clark roasting with his tweet I see https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckGarfien/status/1083820340835483650

This and only this, they know their owner isn’t afraid to spend money, he’s done it repeatedly in the past unlike us

Although I’m all about roasting that dan Clark dude because I actually believed him too, I won’t until manny is a whitesox. It would not surprise me in the slightest if the Yankees tried to trade Andujar for some pitching then come right back into the manny sweepstakes

Gotta love some James Shields ?

Any Sox connections lately to Harper.....it seems like we’ve cooled off quite a bit on that front or are we solely focused on Machado and that’s it?