YouCanPutItOnTheBoardYES!

I bet this exact situation will happen with Arenado or Rendon next offseason. Hahn will convince everyone that they have a shot only to fall apart at the last second yet again.

God I can't believe this fucking bullshit. What the fuck

I have a small sliver of hope that the Sox will go all-in on Harper to save face from this disaster but that probably won't happen with the buffoons running things for the Sox.

I just cannot believe how incompetent this organization is. It's astonishing really.

I was kidding.

On the bright side, no lines and cheap tickets! Woo!

I really hope Sox fans aren't going to go after Hector Gomez. He seems like a really nice guy, just didn't have the right info. Not his fault

I missed like 30 pages and I'm not going to go back and read them, but do you guys think the Sox have any shot at Harper? Getting him is the only way I would feel better.

They're not going to get Harper either. We're fucked. What a disgrace.

While this is true, wouldn't it make more sense for them to keep Pederson and use Verdugo as the centerpiece in a trade for a guy like Kluber?

I remember thinking Josh Fields was going to be great after that season he had in 07.

Hector is legit I think, but 99% of the random tweets that are posted in this thread are a load of crap written by people looking for their 15 minutes of fame if they somehow get it right.

All the random Twitter "insiders" that have emerged this offseason amuse me. Everyone and their mother claims to have a source now.

Have a link to their forum?

I'm ready.

How many hours do you guys think you've spent on SoxTalk since this offseason began? It's probably in the hundreds for me, which is both impressive and sad. Lol.

This guy is the White Sox version of Charles The Cat...

I find it interesting how Rosenthal mentions nothing about the Sox ownership in that tweet. Maybe Jerry really is prepared to pay what it will take to get him.

I would take Machado at SS over not having him at all, but him at 3B would be optimal. I really do not like the idea of shuffling Anderson and Moncada around to different positions.

We should start a GoFundMe

Well they developed 4 home grown stars in Altuve, Bregman, Correa, and Springer. I don't see the Sox being able to develop hitting talent that efficiently so they have to go to free agency to make up for it. If the Sox don't convert now when the situation couldn't have developed any more perfectly, I just don't think they ever will.

Exactly. I'm going to wait until this plays out to reserve judgment, but I'll lose pretty much all faith in this team winning anything in the near future if they don't get one of these guys. There's just no way to build a championship contender in this day in age without using free agency as a tool to add impact talent.

If they're not going to sign a high dollar guy now when the conditions are perfect, they never will. They would be relying almost entirely on developing talent from within which won't work.

The stadium is going to be a ghosttown if they come up empty. Probably even lower attendance totals than last year.

That's a nice 67 win lineup right there.