Whatever.

I don’t blame Epstein for leaving that nightmare AT ALL. The Cubs lose 100 and the fans still love and support you. Boston wins 100 and all fans do is ask…is that more than the Yankees? I

The Sox have the clout and the money to find someone who can sort this mess out.

What, you don’t think they’ll attract top-of-the-line talent with a marquee team name and billions of dollars? C’mon, get serious, Matt…

Theo had much less to do with the huge deals made in the off season than anyone will admit. I think when a deal(s) looks that big, there was a message made to the GM from up top to get ________ at any cost. Or Get a ____________ and pick up _____________, Get it done. Don’t think for a second that Theo didn’t have more than one person over him telling him what to get done, and maybe even how to do it. Another thing. I think the upper management was screwing with not only Theo and what he was doing, but also with Francona. How does a guy like Francona lose his team?

I’m not too sure that the whole “betrayal” angle in regards to Theo is misplaced, but I’m pretty sure it is.

The Red Sox are nothing approaching a mess, to say so is to divorce yourself from reality to play knee-jerk reactionary…..if you didn’t think the Red Sox Roster was a mess in August, then you shouldn’t think it now…because it is not.

The Red Sox organization is not a dictatorship at any level, all decisions are made after getting many opinions and coming to a consensus decision….there are a LOT of people heavily involved in the decision making process, which is one reason the RS won’t be to bothered if Theo leaves….they know he’s just one part of the process.

High-minded moral judgements? Where are the baseless steroid accusations, the grit-and-hustle articles about white people, and the pieces that ignore a player’s career and focus on a tiny sample size in order to create a narrative the writer has always felt is true?

If you’re going to Murray Chass us, just go all the way, you know?

I’m more intrigued that the Cubs are tripping all over themselves to get a guy who essentially had an unlimited payroll and is coming off two staight third place finishes and the biggest choke job in baseball history. The cherry on top will be when Theo hires Francona to be the manager.

Maybe he can trade Soriano for Lackey……..

He’s been there a long time and is being offered a new challenge with greater responsibilities. The Red Sox could have refused permission for him to talk to the Cubs but they didn’t which tells it’s own story.

Employees in professional sports are mercenaries whose employers treat them as such. Like any job, there are tradeoffs — massive salary and coveted, fun position for unrealistic expectations and a public/ownership who will likely be irrational in their evaluation of your performance.

To pretend it’s okay to make moral judgements in either direction about a man’s decisions in his livelihood is moronic and anyone who engages in such nonsense should be treated with the scorn their actions invite.

What I wonder is, why does Pat Gillick seem to get a lifetime pass for his transgressions? It seems like he always leaves on what is an identifiable “almost” season for whatever team, and then they collapse, predictably, thereafter.