What's your Harper Hunch?

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https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/03/01/bryce ... cott-boras
“A third of a billion dollars for one player is unbelievable,” said one GM. “You have to start there. The other thing that stands out is that Harper didn’t have preferences. What if he had a preferred destination? Would he have taken less money? Or was it about ego and the record? It seemed all he cared about was breaking the record.

Thirteen years is giving your whole career over to a place where rumor has it he didn’t like. But maybe Scott was good at creating all kinds of those narratives to get to the number.”

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Someone needs to update the title of this thread or I'm going to lose it.

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CardsofSTL wrote:Someone needs to update the title of this thread or I'm going to lose it.
Also: who won with their pick?

A year free of GRB Gold Membership is on the line, here.
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I'll be 41 when the contract is done. I started at this forum when I was 16. Weird...

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I'll turn 53 early in the final year of Harper's contract. Man, 13 years is a looooong time.

Edit to add: I just realized that May 21, 2019 will be my 10 year anniversary since joining this board. I didn't even remember my password or check the site for a few years after joining. Back in 2011 I was at a bar a couple of blocks from home (which is how I remember the year since it closed a couple of months later) and I was talking baseball with some random people there. One of them turned out to be a member here who mentioned this place and I realized that I already had an account and started paying more attention to the forum eventually.

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TGantz wrote:I'll be 41 when the contract is done. I started at this forum when I was 16. Weird...
You'll probably be the GRB proprietor by then

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Cronos wrote:
CardsofSTL wrote:Someone needs to update the title of this thread or I'm going to lose it.
Also: who won with their pick?

A year free of GRB Gold Membership is on the line, here.
I think Hoot was tasked with tracking that but he's slipping.

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I'll be 49 when that contract ends. Boy howdy.

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I'll be old enough to know better but still too young to care

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The World will have ended before this contract does, so it was a good signing by the Phillies.

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