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Devil’s advocate: If the Cubs brass didn’t want to get leveraged into the greatest bidding war in sports history, what type of approach would they have toward Harper this offseason?

 

Would they...Check in early and say keep us in the loop before accepting any offers? Would they publicly cry poor to keep Boras at bay? Now take it from another angle...Would the Cubs be dumb enough to want the negative publicity that would instantly liken them to the MacPhail era team by saying we don’t have any money? On the heels of signing the vaunted television network deal that was supposed to be their cash cow to set record payrolls...on the heels of the shitty press from their racist patriarch? (Unless they knew it would come out later they were in on him all along)

 

It seems at least remotely possible that the Cubs are attempting to pull off the greatest baseball Keyser Soze in order to get the guy that has been rumored to be fawning over playing at Wrigley for years. For the Cubs to not even be on record as having *mild interest at the right price* is almost a tell in itself that they’re in full bluff mode and sticking to it. If you were going to play it cool and try to not pit yourself into a $400MM bidding war...this is exactly how you would do it.

 

If this was the Hendry Cubs with Ricketts money, Harper would have been signed in the Winter Meetings for a 12- Year, $480MM deal with a full no trade clause and no opt-outs.

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Devil’s advocate: If the Cubs brass didn’t want to get leveraged into the greatest bidding war in sports history, what type of approach would they have toward Harper this offseason?

 

Would they...Check in early and say keep us in the loop before accepting any offers? Would they publicly cry poor to keep Boras at bay? Now take it from another angle...Would the Cubs be dumb enough to want the negative publicity that would instantly liken them to the MacPhail era team by saying we don’t have any money? On the heels of signing the vaunted television network deal that was supposed to be their cash cow to set record payrolls...on the heels of the horsefeathers press from their racist patriarch? (Unless they knew it would come out later they were in on him all along)

 

It seems at least remotely possible that the Cubs are attempting to pull off the greatest baseball Keyser Soze in order to get the guy that has been rumored to be fawning over playing at Wrigley for years. For the Cubs to not even be on record as having *mild interest at the right price* is almost a tell in itself that they’re in full bluff mode and sticking to it. If you were going to play it cool and try to not pit yourself into a $400MM bidding war...this is exactly how you would do it.

 

If this was the Hendry Cubs with Ricketts money, Harper would have been signed in the Winter Meetings for a 12- Year, $480MM deal with a full no trade clause and no opt-outs.

I'm sure you aren't alone in thinking/hoping this (I'm included in that group), but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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I've been quietly confident that Bryce is gonna be a Cub come the 2019 season the whole time.

 

Fretting about it won't change anything, and if he goes to some other team, oh well I still get to watch Javy and Bryant duel for NL MVP this year.

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this is so horsefeathering annoying. it seems like he badly wants to play for the cubs and we just refuse to take him.

 

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