SHANK SHANKS SELF

In a column dated Tuesday the 1st of November, Dan Shaughnessey said:

One of the brightest minds ever to grace the Red Sox front office is gone. Theo Epstein was instrumental in delivering Boston's first baseball championship in 86 years

Woah! I thought he was merely a product of Larry Luchino's guidance. I'm sure that Larry will be able to produce such a baseball genious again in no time. He probably already has a few candidates lined up. What a Shank, a hypocrite, a bad writer, an opportunist, a scavenger, and a piece of crap.

Anyway, the Red Sox remain totally screwed and it's their own fault. They could have come out and offered Theo the $1.5M a year deal instead of waiting until November to do so. This would have given them ample time to find a suitable replacement from within or outside of the organisation. Instead, the tried saving a few hundred thousand dollars. That's alot of money to most people, but a few hundred thousand dollars is peanuts to a company like the Boston Red Sox. And it wasn't as if what Theo was asking for was unprecedented. Alot of big market GMs that have had success in the past make alot of money. It isn't that rare.

Theo isn't completely blameless in this whole thing, either. Even if Shaugnessey's leak assissted column was the straw that broke the camel's back, Theo could have been a bit more forthright with the team and the fans. A few days ago, he could have easily said that it wasn't about the money. Instead, he made it seem like it was. Usually it's the oppositte. So the team kept offering something that Theo really didn't care much about. Then the deadline came and Theo said "see ya." Maybe it was an intentional "FU" to the Red Sox or maybe Theo was just being a bit absent-minded. Whatever or why ever, or how ever it happened, we are screwed.

But hey, at least Jason Varitek won a Gold Glove, and a Silver Slugger Award for best hitting catcher.