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I have a really hard time seeing him come up empty-handed here.

I think a good rule of thumb is to not put stock in either direction into what Rick Hahn has said to the media lately. Even just yesterday, he said there's nothing to gain from him giving a public update on Machado until anything is finalized, so he prefers to stay silent. That's the one thing I trust he's actually being 100% honest about.

And like I said, any answer that doesn't shut it down would lead to the fanbase going crazy. That's not something he likes to do.

There's only one way Hahn could have answered that question and he answered it perfectly. If he left any semblance of a "we don't have a spending limit" or "we aren't limiting ourselves to just one premium free agent" out there, the fanbase would have gone absolutely crazy thinking we were going for both. His answer means nothing to me.

Also don't think he's Steve because of this exchange.

Is Jason Coyle not the CEO of Stadium?

Also that quote is by McCann, not Alonso

Exactly. I'm seeing a lot of "he's a senior ESPN reporter, he has tons of connections" online, but his recent actions make him more of a Bruce Levine than a Ken Rosenthal.

Get ready

Their boards aren't nearly as active as ours. Their most active one has an offseason catch-all thread (that includes all Manny talk) and this thread alone has 4x as many posts

Have any congressional representatives confirmed? Or supreme court justices? If not, then I don't buy it

He's really good but the bullpen is the least of my concerns right now

According to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, #WhiteSox have signed both Manny Machado and Bryce Harper.

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The Hahn presser is routine and happens every year on Day 1 of Spring Training. That’s why I’m losing faith in Hector, who seems to be implying that he’s gonna drop some news during it. I’m sure it’ll be typical Hahnspeak that will make 50% of the board extremely pessimistic and 50% of the board extremely optimistic.

Carson Fulmer?

Given where the rest of our roster will be with arbitration, and that the whales probably won't both be here for the 8 or whatever years, it isn't as risky as it sounds

Good to know that this will be the agenda for the next 3-8 years.

Thank you for at least being an improvement over the "get ready... just get ready" guy

Well I stand corrected, but am still skeptical

Reading his replies, he seems to be "hearing" it from the glove tweet and the GRF security for tomorrow (which is for the fan contest)

There will be 100-400 (depending on how many guests they bring) random fans in the stadium tomorrow. They definitely would need security for it.

It's not a real account bro