He wants players who play hard, he was disappointed to go to Wrigley and hear boos lately, Boston didn't hire the best guy they went with some local unknown so maybe the Cubs should too, trying to buy the best has failed for the Cubs before.
Ouch! But the way the Red Sox treat their employees, including blocking Epstein's promotion, will in no way effect their ability to attract employees in the future :)
Just completely and wildly reading between the lines, I think Crane Kenney was both Levine and Kaplan's source yesterday and they got burned. The way the media is about to turn on him, Kenney will be lucky to survive the year. And I'm not sure if I mean that literally or figuratively.
Um, what's the other 13%? Theo dies of a brain aneurysm. It seems high, but actuarial science is still in its infancy, and you have to account for the genetic background of his father, Peter Gammons.
18 hours since @thekapman has had anything to say on this. His last being throwing another writer under the bus for something that writer didn't really say.
I don't think it was Murton. There was something in the trade that one of the GMs didn't realize he was agreeing to, and Hendry had to send him something later to make up for him not vetoing it at the deadline.
It's almost 9 a.m. Chicago time. Does no one want to be the first reporter to come out with a report that begins the endless circle of contradiction for the day?
Coming from the guy who threatened to fire bomb Australia. Come to think of it, I havn't seen Truffle around here since that threat. What did you do Kyle?
So to end the day, the Theo Epstein compensation deal is done pending medicals/not done at all/close/not close/waiting for Selig to step in. The Cubs will give up cash/prospects/top prospects/McNutt/not McNutt/some low minor leaguers. The press conference will be Friday/A few days from now/nobody really knows. Fun day! Let's do it again tomorrow.
Hard to revell in the misery of the Padres fans. It's like laughing at a crippled orphan whose dog just got run over. All misery porn is good misery porn. Plus, 1984. were you even alive? Yes.
Hard to revell in the misery of the Padres fans. It's like laughing at a crippled orphan whose dog just got run over. All misery porn is good misery porn. Plus, 1984.
Quick, someone come argue with everyone for 20 pages about how the Padres are fools for not demanding Andrew Cashner in return. Two weeks ago, I so would have taken you up on that.
Ask him if he thinks Theo will pass his physical. Tell him Brandon wants to know. Throwing another reporter under the bus for something that reporter didn't really say? What a jackass.
What has he been doing? Running up Boston's phone bill making calls to all his old buddies and putting our new brain trust together. I hope it was expensive.
I already apologized. It's in the past. Let it go, man. This will haunt you forever. That's not fair. It's only going to stick to me because Brandon's already got the Dusty Baker fetish as his "thing."