1 minute ago, GermanSoxFan said:

Can someone cue the GIF of the villagers storming The Beast’s castle with pitchforks and torches in Beauty & the Beast, por favor?

So basically “Middleton persisted” while KW and Hahn were either vacationing or golfing somewhere.  

Impossible to imagine Reinsdorf interrupting his Chairman of the Board duties to stay in Vegas for multiple days in order to close a deal out.

Edited February 24, 20197 yr by caulfield12

Bob is wrong per usual, the plane left hours ago. Unless of course Middleton sent his private jet out from Vegas without him on it

1 minute ago, Tony said:

Anyone who thought the Sox had a chance this week with Harper was out of their mind. 

It’s more like wishing.  Imagine Harper in a Sox jersey on the cover of MLB The Show 2019, imagine Sox fans everywhere in Harper jerseys, imagine fans actually showing up to GRate to watch Harper and Eloy.  Is JR a moron or what?

Just now, Harper2Sox said:

It’s more like wishing.  Imagine Harper in a Sox jersey on the cover of MLB The Show 2019, imagine Sox fans everywhere in Harper jerseys, imagine fans actually showing up to GRate to watch Harper and Eloy.  Is JR a moron or what?

Fantasy land brother. 

17 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Some of that was playing CF instead or his preferred and more instinctive RF, but the whole “Harper’s defense is falling off a cliff” in 2018 was merely based on a sum total of count ‘em...FOUR 50/50 defensive plays he didn’t make, one or two of which are balls that arguably were lost in the lights.

 

Padres chairman Ron Fowler: ‘We’re a lot happier than the #Whitesox right now.’

Should put that billboard up in Hahn, KW’s and Reinsdorf’s neighborhoods to wake up to everyday...maybe it will serve as a source of inspiration, but probably not.  They’re all too comfortable.

Any other billionaire owner with the smallest sense of dignity / ego would probably respond by making a fat offer to Harper right now.  Not old man Reinsdorf, he’s probably smoking a cigar while reliving the glory days through his 2005 World Series box set.

The Sox don't want to get involved because it might run up the price for the Phillies, right? 

Just now, Unknown said:

The Sox don't want to get involved because it might run up the price for the Phillies, right? 

I believe Phil Rogers tweeted something to that extent. If true, that is a pretty textbook case of owner collusion to suppress a players salary. 

In my humble opinion, the Sox never had any real interest in signing Harper from day one of the offseason. They knew the asking price going in would be 300 million plus due to the Nats offer. He is still sitting out there now and the Sox aren't making a move on him because they never had any interest in signing him in the first place. 

50 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

I still think something around 10/$300M could get this done, but cheap Uncle Jerry ain’t gonna pony up unfortunately.

I need your optimism back. Even though this will certainly end poorly, just like it did with Machado, give us some hope at least. 

5 minutes ago, SoxBlanco said:

I need your optimism back. Even though this will certainly end poorly, just like it did with Machado, give us some hope at least. 

There’s just no way he subjects himself to that twice...although it’s already looking like it could be over in the next week unless he really wants to go to SFG and work out a really creative shorter term deal with higher AAV.

Am I reading way too much into things that whenever there is a positive Sox interest in Harper tweet (heyman), immediately nightengale tweets the opposite?

Jon still bringing us up at parties, at odd times

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, HakunaMachado said:

Am I reading way too much into things that whenever there is a positive Sox interest in Harper tweet (heyman), immediately nightengale tweets the opposite?

Well you have one guy that obviously has ties to Boras, who would want another team involved in the bidding to help raise the price.  Then you have another guy with ties to the Sox that either want to be under the radar or not get the hopes up of their fans.

21 minutes ago, SoxBlanco said:

I need your optimism back. Even though this will certainly end poorly, just like it did with Machado, give us some hope at least. 

I honestly believe there’s a non zero chance we get him, but that requires three things:

1. Reinsdorf preferring Harper over Machado and open to a larger contract for him
2. Jerry seeing all the bad press / outrage over the Manny miss and willing to go a bit bigger
3. The Phillies having a strict valuation range and not comfortable going beyond it

I truly believe #1 & #3 could be real things, just remain skeptical the Machado miss would have an impact on Jerry’s decision making.  But honestly who the fuck knows.  If the Padres could steal Machado from us, it’s possible we could steal Harper from the Phillies.

Edited February 24, 20197 yr by Chicago White Sox

3 minutes ago, Princess Dye said:

Jon still bringing us up at parties, at odd times

 

The next heyman tweet (I cannot embed). Is he hinting Sox could go into the Harper range?

1 minute ago, Princess Dye said:

 

So Sox told Heyman the asking price is 350/360?  Yeah Jerry isn't going that high.

Just now, HakunaMachado said:

The next heyman tweet (I cannot embed). Is he hinting Sox could go into the Harper range?

If i dont care about being hurt again, about having my feelings used..then..Yes..he is implying that. Yes.

So he follows the 350 offer from Sox to Machado with this tweet. 

2 minutes ago, HakunaMachado said:

The next heyman tweet (I cannot embed). Is he hinting Sox could go into the Harper range?

That's how I took it

Have to pay 360 for him for 10 years, no reason not to

Imagine Harper and Eloy in the heart of the order...my god

The Sox offer with incentives probably is in the 350-360 range with Harper. Guaranteed money is what matters to these guys though.