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stunning

Wow:

Theo Epstein stunned the Red Sox and the baseball world this afternoon by walking away from his job as general manager.
Just hours before his deal was set to expire at midnight, Epstein told his bosses and associates at the Red Sox’ Yawkey Way offices that he had decided not to accept a three-year deal worth $1.5 million a year, an extension for the contract he signed on Nov. 25, 2002. …

Epstein had come close to agreeing to a deal Saturday evening but had not officially conveyed acceptance of it. On Sunday, he began having serious misgivings about staying on. A leading contributing factor, according to sources close to the situation, was a column in Sunday’s Boston Globe in which too much inside information about the relationship between Epstein and his mentor, team president and CEO Larry Lucchino, was revealed — in a manner slanted too much in Lucchino’s favor. Epstein, according to these sources, had several reasons to believe Lucchino was a primary source behind the column and came to the realization that if this information were leaked hours before Epstein was going to agree to a new long-term deal, it signaled excessive bad faith between him and Lucchino.

Not quite sure what to say. Theo made some mistakes, to be sure. But wow, you gotta admire so much about what the Sox did, and the unsentimental way they went about doing it. Just wow.

3 comments to stunning

  • themofo

    Bah, the headline here is just ‘Sharp young hotshot spars with older, invested executive for power; loses.’ It happens in Corporate America every day. Zzzz….

  • I know what to say…..Buh Bye Theo!
    Thank You Mofo. wahh wahhh wahhh!
    TE is a made man because of LL, don’t start turning on him now.
    Honestly, 3 years was a good run. The team is falling apart and TE can’t keep it together.
    Perhaps TE can go to the Dodgers, make enough money to buy out LL, JH and TW and then he can make the decisions……until then stop crying.
    4.5 million……I’ll take it.

  • themofo

    Might I also say that if Theo bailed because Larry Lucchino meddled in his job… well, Lucchino meddled the right way; we won the series in 2004 and got to the playoffs in ’03 and ’05 with collections of nobodies and injured players.

    These guys are both very good, intelligent baseball people, and the younger one happened to hit some professional growing pains while he worked in the 617 area code. Someday he too will be a Larry Lucchino, and meanwhile the city will be fine.

    SoxFan, you should allow anonymous posts on your blog!!!

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