So John Henry Walks Into a Radio Station… 1 Comment
Apparently the Boston radio duo of Felger and Massarotti were doing their show on 98.5 FM when they got word that Boston owner, John Henry had come into the station and wanted to come ...
Compensation for Theo Epstein 133 Comments
Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe wrote that the compensation talks between the Red Sox and Cubs were set to begin soon. Apparently Ben Cherington has already been told he will be the ...
Cubs next manager 299 Comments
The day we learned Jim Hendry was fired, I talked about how listing general manager candidates would be lazy. The reality at that time was that there wasn’t a general manager ...
In Theo We Trusty (or something) 210 Comments
The Cubs signing of Theo Epstein is all but officially official. The Cubs have a penchant for blowing things that seem certainties, so until this is finally final and Theo is ...
Theo close to signing with Cubs 225 Comments
So says the Boston Herald.
Two baseball sources have confirmed that Theo Epstein is on the cusp of leaving his job as general manager of the Red Sox to accept a position with the Chicago ...
Tom Calls Theo 221 Comments
The Red Sox have apparently granted the Cubs permission to speak with Theo Epstein about their vacant general manager position. Paul Sullivan has reported that his best friend’s ...
Chicago Tribune is now accepting hearsay from random people 212 Comments
Per NDB Paul Sullivan, some dude wearing a purple tshirt thinks he saw Theo Epstein at a Chicago Starbucks. True to form, he managed to work in a completely unrelated dig on Zambrano. ...
Cubs GM Search Update: Day 77, Still No Update 112 Comments
Holy mother of God, would something just happen? The way things are going, I assume man will be living on Mars before the Cubs have a new GM.
They have been without one now for almost ...
On Theo 261 Comments
The following comment by Smokestack Lightning was such a good one that it deserves to be highlighted on the front page.
Quoting dylanj:
Friedman is my first choice simply because I ...
Cubs ask Red Sox for permission to talk to Theo 296 Comments
I don’t have anything to add, but figured since we knew this was coming it may as well be a post of its own.
Globe colleague Dan Shaughnessy has learned from a team source that ...
Terry Francona to leave Boston? 41 Comments
Terry Francona may be out as manager of the Red Sox as early as today so reports a lot of people with sources. I for one would be very happy if the Cubs targeted him as their manager. ...
The hunt for a new GM 152 Comments
Shortly after Jim Hendry was fired I wrote about why every big name GM, current or not, is a candidate for the Cubs job. If they are, so is everybody else. The reason I wrote that is ...
GM Candidates 48 Comments
It would be easy, and even lazy to put together a post with names most of you have never heard about and talk about why they may be a candidate to replace Jim Hendry. I seem to remember ...
