Red Sox Shocker

This really going to hurt the BoSox. Damon, Manny, and now Epstien. Stienbrenner is smiling.

What a bunch of "idiots"!

There's always last year.

Dad04, That's a great line. LMAO.

Apparently they wouldn't pay Epstein what he was worth. He was getting I think $400K. He wanted to be paid like he deserved, and I guess the Bosox said no.

I think it's stupid to let him go. He's not worth a 240 hitting 2nd baseman?

Curt Schilling said it had nothing to do with money. Hopefully Epstein will go to the Phillies.

KREMER

It had nothing to do with money--he walked from 4.5 million for three years

In my mind it is the fact the the owners are not baseball people, they are business men first and they have huge egos themselves--- call it power struggle-- Theo never got full credit and always full blame for a wrong deals--the boss wanted to be in full control

say what you want about Stienbrenner he would never let this happen to the Yankees. He's a business man and a baseball man. Maybe Stienbrenner will hire Eptein to be the Yankees assistant GM for 1M a year. LOL GO YANKS!!!

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Originally posted by TRhit:
KREMER

It had nothing to do with money--he walked from 4.5 million for three years

In my mind it is the fact the the owners are not baseball people, they are business men first and they have huge egos themselves--- call it power struggle-- Theo never got full credit and always full blame for a wrong deals--the boss wanted to be in full control

Hope everyone is sitting down...

I agree with TRHit on this one.

My prediction,

The Mets will hire Epstein.
On his first day of work - he will accidently bang his head on the door overhang.

He will then proceed to make three deals.

He will coax Mo Vaughn out of retirement - 3 year deal at $45 million.
He will resign Jose Offerman - 5 year deal - $11 million per year.
He will extend Trachsel's contract for another 20 years - at $6.5 million per year.

The Mets will then proceed to lose 103 games in 2006.

Lets Go Mets!!!

If you want to point fingers please point to none other than........


Larry Lucchino! That dodger job opening up all of a sudden looks promising as well. Theo with the Dodgers would actually be a good fit.

itsinthegame:

Amazing post!

Ya Gotta Believe.

(In something).

Dad04:

Yes ...there's always last year!

That's a good one!

mtownfan:

What's a 'sone-cutter'?

itsinthegame:

Yeah...I hear ya'.

Ya' gotta believe...in something. Death and taxes doesn't cut it all of the time!

IMO - You can be optimistic or pessimistic.

I think it is better to be optimistic.
It is more fun.

The way I see it - 103 losses are better than 104 losses.

Lets Go Mets!

ITS

There would a load of Mets fans very happy-- there was a lot of fan unrest with Minaya

TR,

Its a business as you know very well.

Minaya - goodbye-ah

i'd like to see theo go to the phils as well, but it looks like their gonna sign pat gillick today or tomorrow since LA is chasing after him. However, they might back out and go after theo now. I read something on ESPN that theo may be interested in LA's job anyway. I thought philly was gonna grab hunsicker, but apparently after interviewing the 5 candidates they liked gillick the best. But on theo epstein, he deserves to be paid what hes worth. I mean afterall he was a huge part in reversing the curse.