Jose Abreu

Whatever the antonym of downplay is, that's what Hahn is doing about the rumors. He seems to really believe we're getting a whale and he's barely trying to hide it

No Jermaine Dye jokes yet?

I think he meticulously crafted his comments so that fans of every team that's in the running believe that they're the frontrunner.

He said he'd do that if it was revealed the Sox did not make a serious offer, he didn't say that he'd do that if Harper just signs elsewhere

Just get the word "mobile" out of your links and they'll embed automatically

No but this does

Probably the case, but he generally doesn't include the "..." when he is simply re-sharing

I trust Ken Rosenthal over this guy and a cat, personally, but to each their own

I don't buy the specifics of it. Just a lot of smoke about the Sox being quietly confident from various posters

Meh. He has a pretty high walk rate and will probably get overpaid

I wish they did. Mostly for comedy's sake

I'm glad they had the stones to make a scene

Yeah, that game is a loss either way. My concern is going forward is he seems to think it's ok to bench an entire group of 5 players based on 2 minutes of play, and those 2 minutes weren't even noticeably bad

Perhaps. I can at least see the merit for it. But the second time? Not at all. It was 2 minutes. They looked fine, and the bench guys looked way worse. It seems like his priority is to embarrass the starters and keep them from developing. I'm not a fan of that.

Jim Boylen is awful. Bulls started the game down 17-0, he pulls all 5 starters 5 minutes into it. That's fine on the surface, but everything was dropping for the Celtics and the Bulls were getting good looks that just weren't falling. Then in the second half, the Bulls are losing the quarter by a score of 5-3, everything seems normal, and Boylen pulls everybody again, this time after about 2 minutes. Great way to lose a locker room before you've even won it over. They never saw the floor again, the starters played 7 minutes + whatever they got in the 2nd quarter. The bench was much worse.

It only took a few weeks for Jimmy to cause problems in Philly! Yesterday Embiid admitted that he's a tough fit on their roster and that it makes things harder for him