PSUsarge wrote:JOHNNY AIRPORT https://twitter.com/JClarkNBCS/status/1 ... 3839324162

I wonder if Clark has ever gotten a job offer from TMZ.

Very funny how Middleton was going around before the game autographing balls for fans. Guy is in the flipping zone.

mtcal wrote:

MoBettle wrote:It's crazy how Hoskins is only 5 months younger than Harper.

ike and marks went in a bit on Bryce personally yesterday, i had never followed him all that close. apparently a country music fan so he can go to concerts with jimmy butler together and whatnot. apparently got his GED with a 4.0 gpa after like 10th grade or some crazy like that.

It's worth remembering that he got his GED so that he could spend a season at a JuCo and enter the draft a year early. If he doesn't do that, it's unlikely we get him this off-season/spring training.

702 wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:JOHNNY AIRPORT https://twitter.com/JClarkNBCS/status/1 ... 3839324162

Rando, Dad, Mom, Kayla, Bryce, Boras, Rando. In order.

I read that as rondo haha

Harper about 15-20mins from landing, Johnny Airport needs to be ready.

etched Chaos wrote:Harper about 15-20mins from landing, Johnny Airport needs to be ready.

Hopefully someone warned Harper that Clark is going to bumrush him at the airport.

etched Chaos wrote:Harper about 15-20mins from landing, Johnny Airport needs to be ready.

how is Johnny Airport getting footage from departure and landing? He's multiplying..

etched Chaos wrote:Harper about 15-20mins from landing, Johnny Airport needs to be ready.

JC and his camera man outside clearwater airport

It's a neutral-site airport chasing, I wonder how that will impact John's game?

Reports are he landed.

Steaks says how he heard it went down.

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/ ... yce-harper

So how did they close the gap? How did they go from the frustration, disappointment and doubt of Wednesday to maternity-ward euphoria of Friday?

According to people on both sides, length of contract was a huge talking point in the negotiations.

Harper, 26, wanted a record amount of money — that was a given — but he also wanted a deal that would take him to the age of 40.

The Phillies were in favor of a lengthy deal because they wanted to spread out the average annual value of the contract. The team wanted to do that so it could maintain the financial flexibility needed to retain players such as Rhys Hoskins and J.T. Realmuto, and be active in future free-agent markets.

According to sources, the Phillies tried to address both sides’ concerns with a 15-year contract offer that carried a guarantee of more than $325 million, matching the record amount of Giancarlo Stanton’s deal.

That wasn’t getting it done for Boras. The years were good. The average annual value (AAV) was not.

The two sides kept talking.

Then anxiety grew in Phillies camp as the Dodgers and Giants got into the mix.

The Dodgers tried a different route, a short-term deal with a high AAV — $43-45 million, according to reports.

The Phillies reached out to Boras and started talking about a three-year deal with an AAV of $40 million.

The Giants started to get serious.

OK. The Phillies reached out to Boras and started talking about a six- or seven-year deal at $35 million per year.

Word that the Giants were willing to go to 10 years and more than $300 million began to circulate.

The Phillies had already been willing to go into that territory, but Boras was not happy with their offer because the AAV was too low. The two sides established $330 million as the guaranteed number but that would not work over a 15-year spread.

How about 14 years?

Nope.

Frustration mounted.

It was Wednesday afternoon and the Phillies sensed no framework for a deal. There was disappointment and pessimism. They thought they were done.

But nothing is ever done with Boras. He is like a racecar driver maneuvering through traffic at 100 mph. As long as he sees daylight in front of him, he keeps pushing the pedal. In that $330 million figure, he saw daylight in Philadelphia. Now, if he could only get the AAV up. He called the Phillies back on Thursday morning to talk about the AAV. The Phillies decided to make one final alternation and shortened the term to 13 years. That’s an AAV of $25.3 million, not a record, but more than the AAV of Stanton’s deal, and symbolically more than that nice round number of $25 million.

What would Boras say to that?

Well, by now, you know what he said.

Done deal.

Steaks describes it much differently than Samson (From Shadows Post)

David Samson gave his breakdown on how the deal got done. He said it basically when down(mostly) like we all were figuring on here. They would not accept anything under Stanton's deal, they told every team that, that's all they ever asked for, no team was offering that, Harper started to get antsy, Boras told him not to panic he's gonna get you the deal. He gets the Dodgers and Giants involved, Middleton gets nervous and flies out to Vegas. When there tells him they aren't going to surpass Stanton yet among the things they discussed, Boras goes back to the Dodgers, to try to get them to go long-term, but they wouldn't, so he goes back to the Giants. Then Middleton gets nervous, Klentak and MacPhail implore him not to up his offer, but Middleton ignores it and says oh #$!&@ we can't let the fans down we gotta get this guy, ups the offer to beat Stanton and Boras says thanks that's all we wanted. Done deal.

Glorious

Man, Bryce Harper is on my favorite baseball team. Still can't believe it.

CalvinBall wrote:Man, Bryce Harper is on my favorite baseball team. Still can't believe it.

Symbolically, the culture and iconography of the city is going to change. Surreal

Can we make this official so we can get MERCH

YOU CAN ALREADY BUY SUITE TICKETS WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

Eem wrote:Can we make this official so we can get MERCH

I know. I am dying to get a jersey!