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Trading for Price is generally a bad idea, and yeah Moreno is a bit short sighted but at least he puts his money where his mouth is. Couple that with a GM who can guide him well and the Angel's would be back to being a perennial powerhouse. We dont have either.

Asking prices for Betts wont even give us this possible excitement. As soon as this offseasons played out, I went from a trade for Betts and sign him to a Trout contract mentality to the exact opposite because theres no chance. This team wont sign shit and the contract Betts deserves will be dished out by an owner who gives a rat's ass about his team.

Seriously. I dont really believe it was his wives call. I think it was his way of nicely saying I dont want to play for you. The money was close enough to go somewhere he wanted. Hahn gets pissed off when people say we need to overpay to get top FAs, but it's true. The We Suck Tax is real and theres no doubt a few million more would have changed Wheelers mind. This is a perfect example that directly dispels Hahns notion that the tax doesnt exist and players want to play here. Chicago ain't that far away from home, especially when you can afford first class flights.

I'm gonna lean toward dead. That's usually how these things go.

That's what you get for not ponying up for a real FA SP line Gerrit Cole. Yeah, yeah I get it. Even if the Sox were really in on him it's still very likely he'd choose New York. It doesnt matter though. Now you're in a position where teams want 2 of your 3 best prospects for David freaking Price and AB??? Screw that! Should have just offered Wheeler the We Suck Tax to change his mind.

I highly doubt anyone got their Hope's up. It's just the fact that this ownership group sucks ass and we once again watched the whales go where they are welcome. We were told the money will be spent and blah blah blah. Augmenting the rebuild with actual, premium, Boras priced talent is a smart move!!!! But they're out, and we get garbage like Mazara that we need to hope on more than Marcell fucking Ozuna, who has a WAY better chance at a 4 WAR season, laughed at by our fucking owner. Hes not even a whale, but hes basically written off as a possibility now!!!

They spent 19 million (worth 52m today), have probably made many millions on ownership. The franchise is now worth 1.5 billion. Do the fans a fucking solid and cash out. Capital gains tax be damned, that's a hefty sum of money and hey... it means that the investors won. They bought this franchise for almost nothing comparitively, and now they have something worth over a billion. Buy low, sell high. Give us an owner who wants a shiny new toy hobby instead of this tired shit.

JR and his investment group should cash out at this point and sell the team to someone who wants to take on the Cubs as they appear to be reaching their weakest. You idiots made so much money off of this franchise. Cash the fuck out and enjoy being stupid rich FFS. Sell to a Moreno type who wants to play the game and win this city back.

Hes got us by the balls. The team is just exciting enough that people will go. Moncada and Eloy etc are worth seeing. I want to punish the Sox but I also want to see those guys in person. ?

I truly believe that Hahn and KW have a commitment to winning. Even JR, to some degree, is committed to winning.... but the means to get to winning must conform to his stipulations first and foremost. He wants to win, but he has a duty to the the rest of the morons who own part of this team. They got together in invested in this team because that's what it is.... an investment. You can't compromise that with 300M contracts. Contrast that with Moreno who is just some rich dude who probably doesn't give a rats ass if he loses a few million because the Angels are his cool toy hobby.

Or they're going to cough up one of our top 3 prospects for a pitcher now. Excellent job. At the very least, the Sox should have been "in" on these guys until the end. Yeah, probably not going to sign them. But offer the most money and see what happens!!! Fucking owners like Arte Moreno run baseball teams like they're a hobby, our owner sucks balls. He let the Sox lose this city to the Cubs and now they're a small market team in fucking Chicago of all places, and now they can't afford or won't spent the money on the whales. They're living in the reality that they built.

So Machado was worth 8/250 but Rendon wasn't worth 7/245 +? He's arguably a better baseball player. Man, at least make the Angels work for it. All these awesome free agents and we're gonna end up with Mazara and maybe David Price? Pretty disappointing, to be honest. Hot take, for sure since it's still so fresh, but man... not even one whale in 2 years? May as well move this team to Rockford so they can live in a city that could only support a small market team.

The amount of smoke around this makes me feel a deal is imminent. Hope I'm wrong. This isn't a "wow" name.

This was worth a thread?

This may be worth resurrecting since the Sox have been on the phone a lot with Boras lately, and it seems he's collected at least a couple 7 year offers already.

Sox are throwing everyone off the scent with all the trade talk if it is truly the case that they are a mystery team. UPDATE: Source is telling me that the White Sox are BOTH of the mystery teams. TFWIW. ?

Come on Sox be the mystery team for once. Ahhh dreams.

UPDATE: I'm hearing the Sox are deep in talks on a Cease for Samardzija swap to bring him back to the South Side.

If they deal Cease, they better be fucking right. Unless it's a big name, that could have disaster written all over it. There's a pretty good chance that Cease will be an established, premier talent before too long.

In before.... ahh I give up. Good deal for Stras, no wonder he signed so quickly.

Why are the White Sox offseasons becoming circus acts regularly now? My goodness.

7/220+ In before the Sox offered 7/234.5

Oh SHIT Yankees vs Angels will be VERY interesting

It sounds like there's an agreement in principal. This doesn't make much sense, though, don't teams usually let the news out that there's been an agreement in principal at that point instead of vehemently denying it? Maybe Wheeler really was 14 minutes away from signing with the Sox and they have PTSD lol.

Ahhh Bruce. Accidentally called Steve Cishek Steve Madden, that was a nice laugh.