Re: New GM/Cubs Future News Articles

[Brian]

A woman has been arrested in Chicago for allegedly stalking Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, according to a published report.

 

The Chicago Tribune reported Kathleen Kearney, 44, was arrested Monday evening near Epstein's five-bedroom home in the Lakeview neighborhood.

 

According to the report, Kearney told police she had been watching the home and she was "inviting Mr. Epstein to go to church."

 

Epstein identified Kearney as a person who had been warned about stalking near his home, the newspaper reported.

 

Kearney, who is from Canton, Mass., was charged with two counts of felony stalking, police said.

 

The newspaper also reported that Kearney had previously contacted Epstein when he was general manager of the Boston Red Sox and that Massachusetts authorities were called to investigate stalking concerns, but no charges were filed.

 

With the investigation that is probably going on into people unhealthily obsessed with Theo, I think we may want to have this thread expunged from the internet perhaps nuke the entire board.

[El Duderino]

@NotTomRicketts

 

Theo is perfectly safe and fine, everyone. He's going around today making jokes about crazy bitches being the new market inefficiency.

[pitchcs]

From Jon Greenberg:

 

Another scarier picture of Theo's stalker

 

 

http://www.theheckler.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2011-10-25-kaplan2.jpg

 

[Sammy Sofa]

That's not his hair; he cobbled it together from a drifter in the walk-in freezer in his basement.

[Pushfrog98]

At least she was good looking.

 

Also, maybe if he toned it down a notch or two, he wouldn't have so many stalkers.

[Guest]

At least she was good looking.

 

Also, maybe if he toned it down a notch or two, he wouldn't have so many stalkers.

 

wut?

 

 

http://www.trbimg.com/img-50054aaf/turbine/chi-woman-accused-of-stalking-cubs-boss-201207-001/600

 

[Sammy Sofa]

He has a type.

[treebird]

i wasn't sure where this should go, so i put it here. SCARY

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-woman-accused-of-stalking-cubs-boss-20120717,0,2295809.story

 

it would be a pretty classic cubs move if we went out and got theo epstein and then someone murdered him 9 months later.

[Guest]

He has a type.

 

I'm actually thinking I missed some obvious sarcasm.

 

Whoops.

[Theo]

fap, fap, fap.

[javy knows my name]

hahahaha

[Pushfrog98]

fap, fap, fap.

I lost it. Everyone at work is wondering why I'm laughing so hard.

[Guest]

More Theo-Speak

 

On the organizational need for pitching

"In certain deals, I think it is," Epstein said before Wednesday's game against Miami. "I think you can express a preference for pitching, but if you're dealing with a club that has better position player prospects and you feel the position players in a certain system are a safer bet or offer higher upside, I don't think it's right to pigeonhole yourself to one situation.

 

"As a whole, not specifically regarding these potential deals that are coming, we need to add a lot of pitching to the system. It's not enough to have a handful or two. You need waves and waves coming through your system, and we don't have that. We don't hardly even have one wave coming, so we need to rebuild a lot of pitching depth."

 

With the added wild card team, more teams are considered in contention, and the Cubs are one of the only teams that are publicly discussing full scale personnel changes. They are many more buyers than sellers, which puts the Cubs in a good position.

 

"The trade market is still developing," Epstein said.

 

Asked if the Cubs could be competitive by next year, Epstein said: "We're hoping we're very competitive very soon. But yet, wanting it to be so doesn't make it so. You have to build an organization."

 

On Free Agency

"It's a nice way to add talent to an organization without giving up talent," he said. "But you can not make an organization that way. We have a lot of steps ahead of us that we need to take care of before we're in position to add a finishing piece or two through free agency. We'll always look to free agency. We'll always be on every free agent and see if it's the right player or the right value, but if we sat around and drew up a plan and had free agency as the answer to most of our problems, we'd be on a fool's errand there."

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-epstein-cubs-need-waves-and-waves-of-pitching-prospects-20120718,0,658634.story

[El Duderino]

are there shortcuts, Theo?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Sounds like big free agents aren't in the cards for 2013. And if the biggest need is starting pitching, perhaps they should consider hanging onto Garza rather than trade him for few guys might be comparable to him 3-4 years down the line.

 

If we were to enter 2013 with our current rotation (trade Demp and bring him back on a hometown discount) plus a few offensive upgrades, would that not be good enough to contend?

[Sammy Sofa]

Sounds like big free agents aren't in the cards for 2013.

 

Oh, OK.

[Pushfrog98]

Sounds like big free agents aren't in the cards for 2013. And if the biggest need is starting pitching, perhaps they should consider hanging onto Garza rather than trade him for few guys might be comparable to him 3-4 years down the line.

 

If we were to enter 2013 with our current rotation (trade Demp and bring him back on a hometown discount) plus a few offensive upgrades, would that not be good enough to contend?

I think he's saying that you can't build an entire team on FA signings, and that you have to have a good core of homegrown talent. If there is a solid FA out there, I'm sure Theo/Hoyer are going to look at them.

[Banedon]

I wonder if Boston made him a little gunshy on big name FA's?

[Backtobanks]

Sounds like big free agents aren't in the cards for 2013. And if the biggest need is starting pitching, perhaps they should consider hanging onto Garza rather than trade him for few guys might be comparable to him 3-4 years down the line.

 

If we were to enter 2013 with our current rotation (trade Demp and bring him back on a hometown discount) plus a few offensive upgrades, would that not be good enough to contend?

 

That's what I've been thinking. Is there some reason we have to really be terrible and save money for the next year and a half while we rebuild?

[UMFan83]

^ high draft picks perhaps?

[davell]

And auditioning some younger guys to see if some of them have longterm futures with us.

[Guest]

Also, because he wants to make you angry.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

That's what I've been thinking. Is there some reason we have to really be terrible and save money for the next year and a half while we rebuild?

 

Pressure to win made Theo do dumb things in Boston and he wants a break.

[Fro]

The big thing is I don't think Theo is going to overpay for FA unless it's for the last couple pieces of the puzzle.

[Guest]

http://deadspin.com/5928921/?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

 

The Harvard-educated crazy lady who showed up in Chicago last week on Cubs GM Theo Epstein's doorstep can't sue us for calling her "crazy lady," it turns out. Kathleen Kearney was named a ward of the state of Massachusetts nine years ago because of mental illness, and she was released on bond in Illinois under the condition she check herself in to a mental hospital.

 

Kearney is the alleged stalker that keeps on giving. After her wonderful mug shot last week, she showed up to court Monday wearing a Red Sox t-shirt tucked into her skirt.

 

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