Jose Abreu

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

You trust Bob Nightengale and Bruce Levine more than Bucket, raBBit, and WSD?

@ChiliIrishHammock24 remember when you were asking where you remembered that guy from, the one who tweeted Manny to the Sox? This was over a week before the signing, and before anyone even knew we were in on catchers/Castillo. He even nailed the terms. This is what he tweeted tonight. He has probably gotten stuff wrong before, but he nailed Castillo a week early so he at least has some semblance of a track record. ?

Another day, probably

I'd love for someone to interview Hahn/KW/Reinsdorf after the process is over and have them go in depth on what was going on each week, how often they were actually talking to the players/agents, etc. but I know it's unlikely

If that’s the case, then the 6,000 reply thread will always be the longest because anything that would surpass it (such as this saga) would get chopped up into multiple threads

Are we not counting the previous 84 and 70 page Machado threads from the last few weeks?

The only thing I would advise against is hinting that you have inside information and then not posting anything

Because of this maybe

By posts or pages? I ask because I think pages are significantly longer since the migration

If that's true, you should call the sales reps and inform them of that (if you haven't yet). I heard they've been unusually inquisitive this offseason.

-Michael Scott -Lauri Markkanen

By then, you hopefully won't be needing one!

This is interesting

What, the days of Dan Clark and Facebook sources weren't interesting to you???

With all these new leaks, I would keep Bucket's post from yesterday in the back of my mind.

That might not be a bad thing. Also, raBBit tweeted positively about it the other day. If the Phillies get Machado, I think we get Harper. If we get Machado, I think the Phillies get Harper. I don't see either team getting outbid twice.