Thursday, January 3, 2019

Breaking News, or Not


Bryce Harper updates are God’s way of telling you to get a life.  A friend told me yesterday that he saw on a local sports’ website that the White Sox were willing to offer free agent Harper a ten-year deal.  By the time I checked out the story, another one, filed four hours later, cited “high ranking industry sources” who said the Sox would go no more than seven years.

 

Today, just for fun and possibly because I don’t have the necessary life, I checked the site again to find that the seven-year length could be—as opposed to “is”—a compromise between ten years and early opt-outs.  Another story pointed to free-agent outfielder A.J. Pollock as a consolation prize if the Sox strike out on Harper and/or Manny Machado.  It appears that anything baseball from ESPN does not require much if any sourcing.  If ESPN says so, it must be true enough.  Or not, because none of the writers look willing to let a lack of facts get in the way of some fun speculation.

 

I have got to get a life.

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