StrangeSox

This for sure, and make sure you keep going across the river to Bunker Hill and to the USS Constitution.

One of those who think Mahomes is at least as much of a franchise qb as trubisky and was available at #3? Isn't that pretty much everybody? 49ers drafted poorly but that doesn't mean got robbed on the trade

ok but the 49ers could have taken an even better QB pick with the 3rd they got from Chicago (Mahomes), they didn't get "absolutely robbed" because they made poor draft choices with the picks.

Kenny always gets his man who was the hot FA 6-8 years ago? that's who'll be signed

wait what trade did the Bears "absolutely rob" the 49ers on?

literal billionaire Robert Kraft could easily hire expensive-but-not-literal-sex-slave escorts but he chose the rub-and-tug sex slaves instead additional info:

could be political, could be an actual player on the team?

thought he already had a guy on staff to deflate his balls? also but again Robert Kraft exploited sex slaves

more seriously though,

hoping the memo line said "for: fake attack"

the Sox really were playing 4D chess but for Machado it was just a game of checkers the whole time ("give me $300M guaranteed")

in both scenarios we still have the same inept management and ownership though

"enter"? when were they actually competing for the division? they've been irrelevant for years and years now. that roster wasn't going to be relevant.

yeah but the alternative was being mired in mediocrity forever with the same broken plan little did we know that we were doomed either way

the real assets aren't the players you sign, they're the friends you make along the way

"the guys who completely wrecked the farm system for years turned it around by trading historically valuable assets!" is a hell of an argument in favor of those guys

Maybe, but it more goes back to your first statement that you don't think this had anything to do with money and was more about headlines. The opt-out offers Machado potentially huge value in another 5 years. More value than the potential performance incentives in the White Sox offer. So the Sox didn't offer the most overall potential value, and this really was about the money. Maybe the Sox couldn't offer the most value because of Reinsdorf's ego, but that still doesn't make the original statement true.

If they really were shocked at the news yesterday and really do think their offer was equal or better, well, it shows just how incompetent they really are.

What about the 5-year opt out?

I resign effective immediately

It's thanks to more than a decade of futility, it's just the latest blow E: justification for the negativity, not death wishes