shipps

Looks to me that he is telling people the Sox are probably not going after Harper. Where do you see him saying that Sox are waiting to put in final bid?

Man the Sox are good at being stealth. No mention of them in this report either!

The Sox FO are just going to run with this tough breaks/ bad luck injury narrative as to why their rebuild is behind a year or two. Ignore the fact that the healthy players that are involved aren’t progressing the rebuild and that they were an epic failure in FA, it’s all bad just because of injuries. Okay.

I don’t follow that logic either. It’s kind of amusing to me that some do but hey whatever floats their boat.

Their silence and complete lack of any evidence that they are pursuing him in any way have prompted some to believe that he has been their number one plan from the beginning.

Since the pitching aspect of our rebuild has been taking a huge hit either via injury or lack of performance I am all for allocating our excess budget to pitching instead of FA position players at this point. F*** Harper, sign Keuchel or have a plan to trade or sign future TOR FA pitching. We have plenty of positional talent that we can roll the dice on to hopefully succeed.

*everything can’t fall apart for the Sox if they never had it together*

I am gonna out on a limb and say this rebuild isn’t quite going as one would’ve hoped.

No disrespect to anyone but I don’t think there are many people waiting anymore for inside info. Right now most of us are just waiting for the report that Harper has signed somewhere so we can all get some closure and move on from this nightmare of an off season.

All possible but you are willing to stretch your imagination way further than I am to consider a scenario that the Sox are actually right where they want to be in this.

Really seems like the Sox are not in stealth mode right now. If by stealth we mean non existent then yes , they are stealthy. ?

Good chance he isn’t opting out if things have worked out and we are contending for a title. And even if he does you just go back to the drawing board for a contract with him or one of the other young outfielders will have proven themselves that we may be comfortable with letting him walk.

So you would rather not have him than have him on a three year contract?

Blind hope my friend.

Bmags saidnit right off the bat when we lost Manny to the Pads, winning the negotiation is extremely important to Jerry. To Jerry, agreeing to a number that the player is demanding is not even in the equation. There has to be some sort of compromise from the player/agent end but in reality they just want their money as they asking for it. They will wait until someone gives it. Messing around with Jerry and his art of the deal nonsense will have you f***** most of the time.

I would not have been confident that the Sox would have won any bidding war for him either though. I’m sure that there would have probably been even more of a market for him than there was with Manny and Harper this year. The odds would have been greatly against us.

And everyone laughed at that as should you.

The Cubs are absolutely and unequivocally out of it. Don’t know where you are getting this info. They are even more out of it than are dumbass FO.

Its a 0% chance if the Sox don't want him. They do though, just at the Jerry rate. So with that in mind giving the Jerry rate a 1% chance is probably overly optimistic.

I honestly feel like the Sox have about a 1% chance of landing Harper based on what’s happened up to this point and all the chatter that’s coming out. To believe in your heart if hearts that this is all working out in our favor to get him is really naive. But I don’t think it’s a bad thing to believe though. We all follow this stuff because it’s a nice distraction and sometimes believing in the extremely unlikely is a fun part of that distraction. ?

This is what’s happening as far as I am concerned. Why would I believe anything different after the dealings of this past week?

I picture Hahn in some cramped steak house waiting area with one of those buzzer thingys waiting for a seat at the table with Harper.

Yeah that’s the whole hilarious part of all of this. There isn’t some big secret to how you get a deal done with these guys. Offer them the most guaranteed money WITH incentives if you have to. When you structure deals with incentives only to make up for lack of guaranteed money, to me it’s just a con job. It could pay off for some but for most part the team will make out better in the end. You can possibly get away with conning a mid level star but it’s just not going to work with transcendent players like these two.

My bad. I didn’t know you had a bunch of shitty hot takes in the chamber. I’m just gonna go to bed because I’m old and don’t have the energy to reason with you. Have a nice night.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!....yourself.