Theo Speak

[Ding Dong Johnson]

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/219356840/rewriting-history-just-part-of-epsteins-story/

 

Five years later, Theo and his 8-year-old son Jack watched the Cubs win their first World Series in 108 years.

"I mean, he's kind of talking me through what he thinks our chances are," Epstein says of his son. "He's talking me through every hitter. It's hard not to just relish every single second of that."

[David]

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/219356840/rewriting-history-just-part-of-epsteins-story/

 

Five years later, Theo and his 8-year-old son Jack watched the Cubs win their first World Series in 108 years.

"I mean, he's kind of talking me through what he thinks our chances are," Epstein says of his son. "He's talking me through every hitter. It's hard not to just relish every single second of that."

I was a bit of a late bloomer with my sports interest, but 12 was definitely when it really took hold, like he said.

 

I was just bored by them before that. 8 year old me had no interest, even when my dad and my brothers all watched sports. It all just clicked at once for me when Jordan came back and I became an obsessed freak about the Bulls, then the Cubs, then the Bears.

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

I now imagine Theo's pride in his son talking about baseball is like when Homer realizes Lisa is good at hockey.

 

[davell]

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2 spots ahead of the Pope lol

 

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Theo's response.....

[CubmanPi]

Cubs President Theo Epstein on being picked as the No. 1 World Leader by Fortune: "Um, I can't even get my dog to stop peeing in the house, " he wrote in a text. "That is ridiculous. The whole thing is patently ridiculous. It's baseball--a pastime involving a lot of chance. If Zobrist's ball is three inches farther off the line, I'm on the hot seat for a failed five-year plan. And I'm not even the best leader in our organization; our players are."

A hallmark of effective leadership is owning the organization's failures at the top but passing credit for its successes downward. In his dismissal, he's underscoring its accuracy. Just sayin.

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[Banedon]

Strong argument well written....

 

http://deadspin.com/is-theo-epstein-the-worlds-greatest-leader-1793564083

[Sammy Sofa]

Outside of #1, that list makes not a lick of [expletive] sense.

[Banedon]

Outside of #1, that list makes not a lick of [expletive] sense.

 

Yep. Total nonsense.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

How difficult, exactly, would it be to change Thomas Jefferson's face into Theo's on Mount Rushmore?

[David]

How difficult, exactly, would it be to change Thomas Jefferson's face into Theo's on Mount Rushmore?

 

replace the whole horsefeathering thing

[Brian]

How difficult, exactly, would it be to change Thomas Jefferson's face into Theo's on Mount Rushmore?

 

replace the whole horsefeathering thing

 

Also change the Crazy Horse monument that's near Mt. Rushmore they've been trying to finish forever into Theo

 

http://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero_image/public/photos/parks-monuments/crazy-horse2.jpg?itok=seTSV9UF&timestamp=1429220105

[davell]

 

Great article from Mooney. Theo is just the horsefeathering man. I think we may have actually underestimated his actual awesomeness back when we got him.

[David]

 

Great article from Mooney. Theo is just the horsefeathering man. I think we may have actually underestimated his actual awesomeness back when we got him.

 

I never did. But I'm a Theo sycophant.

 

I remember some people saying the league had caught up and Theo was basically a replacement level or a little above executive (not really in a derogatory way, mind you...).

 

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/252/262/89e.gif

[Gmoney08]

 

Great article from Mooney. Theo is just the horsefeathering man. I think we may have actually underestimated his actual awesomeness back when we got him.

 

I never did. But I'm a Theo sycophant.

 

I remember some people saying the league had caught up and Theo was basically a replacement level or a little above executive (not really in a derogatory way, mind you...).

 

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/252/262/89e.gif

 

I remember that writer in Peoria that was hoping Russell would fail because Theo trade Shark calling everyone Theophiles.

 

LOL I think he started to admit he was wrong after the World Series.

[Sammy Sofa]

Not sure if this counts as Theo-speak; if so, it was probably pretty slurred:

 

http://deadspin.com/report-cubs-world-series-trophy-damaged-at-theo-epstei-1794860667

 

Theo Epstein and his brother Paul run the charity Foundation To Be Named Later, and every year, they host a benefit concert called Hot Stove Cool Music. Since Epstein’s Cubs came to Boston last week to play the Red Sox, the brothers hosted a show headlined by Eddie Vedder, and Theo brought both the Sox’s 2004 World Series trophy and the Cubs’ 2016 trophy for some reason. The trophies were reportedly backstage, but as Vedder was playing the finale, they somehow got passed around the crowd.

 

According to a report from the Boston Globe’s Mark Shanahan, the fragile trophy lost a few flags while getting drunkenly passed around:

 

Problem is, the Commissioner’s Trophy, as MLB’s ultimate prize is called, is fragile. It weighs 30 pounds, but it features 30 little gold-plated flags — one for each MLB team — that apparently can break very easily. We’re told that at least a few of the flags on the Cubs trophy snapped off while it was making its way through the crowd.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTf9-DPlC8J/

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/20140208/4974153/costanza-trophy-o.gif

[Bull]

Not sure if this counts as Theo-speak; if so, it was probably pretty slurred:

 

 

because drunk or because on a sea led Anna porsche ladder sad, Anna sad Iona sea uh a gam?

[David]

This horsefeathering guy is so horsefeathering eloquent

 

https://theathletic.com/61845/2017/05/21/transcript-cubs-president-theo-epstein-tells-yale-graduates-to-keep-their-heads-up-and-rally-together/

[Transmogrified Tiger]

If you made a movie about the world series and made Theo's kid annoy him with win probability updates I'd roll my eyes at how on the nose it was. Truth is stranger than fiction, etc

[Sammy Sofa]

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[Aaron_Kennelly]

Over the break, Theo is going to build this machine for the guy that they force to eat bread:

 

[Gmoney08]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/07/19/theo-epstein-cubs-farm-system-response-criticism/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

Theo is such a badass. The whole article is great with quotes about how the farm is static and will be replenished. He brought up just because you trade a good prospect doesnt mean you wont ever have a good prospect again. You keep developing.

 

Favorite part is this Mic Drop Quote "but the best part of our farm system right now is at the lower levels, where the talent is emerging, and at the big leagues, where they’re all wearing rings.”

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Favorite part is this Mic Drop Quote "but the best part of our farm system right now is at the lower levels, where the talent is emerging, and at the big leagues, where they’re all wearing rings.”

 

I retroactively renounce every criticism and replace it with sobbing prostrate at his feet.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

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