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It's jerry reinsdorf's birthday today Wonder what sox fans would like to say to jerry on his 83rd birthday

Might as well be negative, then

lol

https://theloopsports.com/2019/02/25/white-sox-crucifiction-is-warranted/ @Y2Jimmy0 does a fantastic job of providing tweets/quotes from white sox fans/journalists/employees of water carrying

It's wide open jerry.

@macsandz please sir, may we have some updates about harper?

I think that if this machado saga happened earlier in the year, we'd have a shot at harper. But I think it might be too late

No problem. Local Philadelphia journos are insinuating it as well

So maybe Jerry was eventually ok to go to 300 million but our front office's inability to navigate through bullshit hurt us?

Everything went perfectly terrible for the front office in those couple days haha

Wow. I am shocked. What a screw job by Lazano

Buster, Nightengale, now this guy (I know)

All I know is a lot of journalists are seemingly saying this gets done within a couple of days. Harper will be a Phillie

The tweet @iamshack is mentioning

Why the fuck wouldn't lazano give the white sox a chance and have an opportunity for a little bidding war? Weird move by him.. and a stupid one

I think people can see that we are going in a "good" direction, but the ceiling of this rebuild keeps getting lower and lower..

Next year's free agency class looks very bleak though. Tbh there's not a lot of premium free agents on the market, so who are they even going to spend their money on? Anything can happen too, all of the only premium free agents are more likely to resign than this year. I trust the money will be spent, but this offseason was perfect and they didn't spend

It's understandable, because at the end of those type of deals it looks bad. But, if you want a premium free agent, you're gonna have to deal with those ~2 bad years for the 8-9 good years they give you. Unfortunately, Jerry is a little short sighted

Yeah those vesting options were such bullshit. Jerry knew it would be nearly impossible for him to achieve those. Those options were there to make the deal look better

Well, here's to hoping they are motivated to not lose out on both

I appreciate the optimism, but they were never gonna get both. It was clear machado was their guy, and there's no way around it. I think harper was their guy at first but then jerry realized how expensive he was gonna be

Do you think they won't miss on harper?

I'm guessing the outrage will be the same, but the ramifications longer term won't hurt as much for the Phillies. They've already spent money in free agency with arrieta, and have made their team A LOT better through trade

Going back to this, it does seem as though raBBit thinks boras is using the Phillies

That's what I thought was the most logical