Jose Abreu

Exactly, This means it's almost over.

I’m surprised by all the love he’s getting in the replies to that tweet. He was a complete tool to Sox fans and I have zero remorse.

I was half-joking as I'm sure both teams have wanted him since he was a draft prospect and have planned to make a big FA run at him for at least a couple years. I just think the wording of it is funny, as if the author thought that Machado was letting some huge, life-changing opportunity vanish and he doesn't have any other options

The middle of last season, that's it? I'm pretty sure the White Sox have wanted Manny for years

They thought that Manny was signing with the White Sox because of a fake Jeff Passan account tweet from 3 hours ago. Not only did they not realize that the account lacked a blue check mark, but they wrote a whole article on the ordeal and still didn't notice, not to mention they failed to realize that if it were real, other people would've talked about it in the last 3 hours. Just puzzling all around

It's all a re-run of what was on this afternoon

Could be, but now this is taking the spotlight from Hector Gomez retweeting Heyman, which I think is pretty big.

I don't think that's what he meant Didn't know that. When he tweeted yesterday, it seemed like most of the board/Twitter thought he was plugged in

I doubt he's trolling, he did say this to a doubter: I do, however, have doubts about the info he's receiving

For what it's worth (probably not much), @RichardERoeper (the guy who tweeted this initially) "liked" this response

I think we should help him get a cab.

After the Merkin interview on MLBN, Heyman came on and implied that we're in a good spot and the FO has done an excellent job selling to Machado, FWIW

Yeah he was unusually positive.

We've already had board insiders say it's not true

He should be Todd Frazier's hitting coach

Neither do 99% of the people who walk through it all the time. I appreciate the investigative work but I really don't think it means anything, it's just a phrase that he likes. It's even been in his Instagram bio for awhile now

The pulse on various Phillies message boards is that they will sign Harper, perhaps as early as Saturday, by finally giving out that stupid money. At least that's what someone that they seem to trust said. I suppose that would leave us with Machado

It's not

There's just no way that the Sox have come this far and tried this hard to suddenly decide they aren't offering more than $X. It's possible they've had a number that they won't cross from the start, but there's pretty much no chance that the number is 200 because they wouldn't even be a true contender in that event.

I interpreted your response to Rowand as implying that the relevant info was somehow less reliable than what has come out since but I understand now.

You were making a joke that you think people only trust the positive news and distrust the negative news (a joke I disagree with because I see it more the other way around, but that's beside the point). The positive news came from Bucket, raBBit, and WSD. The negative news came from Nightengale and Levine. That's where I'm coming from