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Correction: president of baseball operations. Call them what you will, but for all practical purposes, Theo will be GM and Hoyer will be Assistant GM. Bingo.

Yes. And Hoyer would likely bring Jason McLeod(Theo's best friend) with him. They've all worked together much.

That's odd. Why would Hoyer make that lateral move? And if he's under contract, the Cubs would have to give compensation there as well. He is. Signed through 2013 with a club option for 2014. He worked alongside Theo for a few years in Boston, and there's been some talk that he's not all that happy in San Diego these days. So his interest wouldn't shock me. The Cubs going through another compensatory situation for a front office guy would surprise me though.

I agree. It's really well done site. Very simple and clean. Never heard of hybrid blog software before, but I really like the look of it. When did you start the site? I see you're ranking 156,000.. Do you tweet all your blogs? If not you should that number would decrease greatly in no at time at all. Thanks - BN started in December 2008, and I started working on it full-time in May of this year. I do indeed tweet all my posts ( ), and I put them up on Facebook as well (http://www.facebook.com/bleachernation). I do other stuff on Facebook and Twitter, also - just to keep them a little different/interesting. Not that I'm shamelessly self-promoting BN's Twitter and Facebook page, but since you asked... I think the hardest thing for BN to overcome is its name--and the potential connection with (and resultant connotation of) Bleacher Report. I would guess that it is something you probably already thought of, though. I retweeted Ace the other day and somebody got mad at me for using Bleacher Report(so they thought) as a source. Pretty sad people can't read two words.

I agree. It's really well done site. Very simple and clean. Never heard of hybrid blog software before, but I really like the look of it. When did you start the site? I see you're ranking 156,000.. Do you tweet all your blogs? If not you should that number would decrease greatly in no at time at all. Thanks - BN started in December 2008, and I started working on it full-time in May of this year. I do indeed tweet all my posts ( ), and I put them up on Facebook as well (http://www.facebook.com/bleachernation). I do other stuff on Facebook and Twitter, also - just to keep them a little different/interesting. Not that I'm shamelessly self-promoting BN's Twitter and Facebook page, but since you asked...Yeah, Ace does a very good job using social media for BN.

She is much better than some. Pathetic that she still has to put up with comments like this. I don't mind her at all. And she's the beat writer for the official team website so it's difficult for her to give us much extra news/analysis on the website or Twitter. She has to just report the news and it's difficult to seem like anything more than a robot when you do that. I wish Sullivan and Wittenmyer would do that more instead of adding in asshatted comments.

That was my very first reaction to that article as well.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2011/10/source_talks_pr.html

Yep. Tuesday's been the day I've been expecting all along. That's why we might as well use all the time until then to try to get Boston to lower their demands.

Both sides come out uncomfortable but not destroyed by backing out now. The whole "One side or the other has all the leverage" stuff is just coming from meathead fanbois. Yeah, both sides have something to lose and little to gain if this falls apart. It is in the interests of both parties that this work out. And it needs to work itself out soon, I'm sick of being held hostage by my computer. Just give them two of JJax/Vitters/Castillo/Flaherty/Lake/McNutt and let's call it a day already. No reason to give into anything for a couple days. See if the Red Sox cave, and if they don't, then finally settle on a couple of those guys. Drag this on as long as possible though and do everything you can to not lose a top 10-20 prospect.

Yeah, Javier Baez would be a great trade target for the Red Sox... if he were eligible to be traded yet. Derp. PTBNL! Woot! Can't even do that yet. I believe there's a six month window on naming PTBNL's. Really? Somehow I wasn't aware of that, but would make sense.

Yeah, Javier Baez would be a great trade target for the Red Sox... if he were eligible to be traded yet. Derp. PTBNL! Woot! That he could be. But it would be much, much later. Whatever the case, he's going nowhere.

Yeah, Javier Baez would be a great trade target for the Red Sox... if he were eligible to be traded yet. Derp.

That's just not at all accurate. Lucchino is his mentor and the one who actually brought him to Boston in the first place. John Henry gave him his first GM job for his hometown team. Not only that, but he's been given complete control over Boston's baseball operations. Also, I still fail to see how the Cubs going with an interim general manager makes any sense. Here's this from SOSH: That's what awaits if the Cubs don't play ball. It's like the part in Moneyball where Beane is trying to convince Omar Minaya to add Youkilis into the Cliff Floyd trade. He tells him something to the effect of: "I can see the Boston papers now: 'Larry Lucchino misses out on Cliff Floyd to keep fat third baseman in Double A'" The Cubs knew that Theo would come at a price, that he'd require a fair amount of compensation and now they're getting sticker shock. You can't just have one of the elite general managers in all of baseball when he's under contract. A price has to be paid. Holding out hope that the Red Sox will "blink first" is amateurish. Missing out on getting him would be a disaster. This is a totally unrealistic outcome. If the Red Sox are so unreasonable that a deal can't get done, Ricketts will simply move on to the next candidate. Epstein is the top choice, but he's not the only choice, and there's no way Ricketts wastes a year hoping for Epstein to come. If this deal doesn't get done, it's undeniable that both teams will take a negative PR hit; nobody wins. The Cubs will be viewed by some as cheap and blowing a huge opportunity in typical Cubs fashion. The Red Sox will come across as petty and unreasonable, and will now be viewed as a divided organization with a man in charge of baseball operations that doesn't really want to be there. Coupled with your late season collapse and the with the way your owners threw Terry Francona under the bus in such despicable fashion, it would really cap a horrendous offseason. Bingo.

http://www.csnchicago.com/baseball-chicago-cubs/news/Red-Sox-playing-hardball-with-Cubs?blockID=577760&feedID=661 This is exactly what I heard yesterday from somebody who knows somebody.

There's no chance in hell we'd go after Cherington if this Theo situation somehow fell through. Just saying.

Nick Cafardo (Boston Globe). And from a PSD poster (not the slamdunk insider who knows all...but a well respected poster): http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/showthread.php?t=659906&page=83 He lost me at "varify".

"We're removing you from a game where you're playing for your country to let you know you'll be playing for this MLB team in April." He hurt his foot, that's why he was pulled.

Winner.

Does he start getting his eyebrows waxed? Hmm... Yeah I could see it.

It's absolutely unbelievable how secretly Ricketts & the Cubs have gone about their GM search. Pretty impressive.

No way would the Reds even think about dealing him within the division.

I suppose if you go by significance of the person at the time, yea, although Nomar and Aramis are pretty close. Otherwise I imagine that'd be getting Sammy from the Sox. I'd say that Ryne Sandberg trade turned out okay for the Cubs.

Heyman to me: "speculation is allowed on twitter, as far as i know." :roll:

Yep.