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There are good and valid reasons to believe that Theo Epstein would not leave the Boston Red Sox to go the Chicago Cubs. The primary reason would be his public track record with the only franchise he's worked for as a general manager. Whenever the Cubs have a highly visible job opening, big names in the biz are mentioned as potential candidates to fill the void. This is a matter of course, even free football games though it may be utter nonsense. So when Jim Hendry is canned as general manager on the North Side, you get the usual rumors involving the biggest possible names. This is in a way a tribute to Epstein. As executive vice-president/general manager of the Red Sox, Epstein has won two World Series championships for a franchise that had gone 86 years without one of those. Last year, when the Cubs ha free football games d a managerial vacancy, the rampant rumor was that Joe Girardi of the New York Yankees was going to come home to Illinois and manage the Cubs. This was never going to happen. The Cubs went in Mike Quade's direction for this job, but the idea that Girardi would trade the Yankees managing job for the Cubs managing job was truly a work of fiction, of fancy, of hallucination. The Yankees job and the free football games Cubs job exist on the same continent, and yet, they are not in the same galaxy. Which club would you rather manage, Girardi's current group in first place in the AL East with the league's best record, or Quade's, fifth in the NL Central, after 142 games played, with the second-worst record in the league? A rational human being would not even pause in making this decision. The same sort of situat free football games ion would hold true for an individual trying to decide whether to be the general manager of the Red Sox or the Cubs. There is always the ego issue, the man who has enjoyed success elsewhere and who thus believes that he and only he could be the one person on Planet Earth who could bring a championship to the Cubs. That's happened with some big-name managerial talent. But their stays in Chicago ha free football games ve not ended happily. It is true that a new manager or a new GM would not be responsible for the 103 years without a championship. But this new manager or GM would inherit that futility. It is the dead weight of history and by now it is a burden that is placed on every new Cub from front-office executives to utility infielders. It is completely unjust. And it is wholly inescapable. You know the free football games next argument. The Cubs would attract Epstein by offering him a promotion and a great big title. He could be, for instance, team president. I don't care if they named him team president, commander in chief, or morale officer to Carlos Zambrano, a shift from the Red Sox to the Cubs cannot be a step upward. It cannot even be a lateral transfer. Look at these two rosters. Certainly the Red Sox hav free football games e spent heavily to bring in talent from the outside. But look, for instance, at the splendid homegrown pitching that they have. Look at the Cubs. They don't have that and therein are the seeds of their continuing shortcomings. Epstein has whiffed on a few free agents, but he has a completely enviable organizational situation -- a franchise with both financial resources and a top-shelf farm system free football games . That is a tough combination to beat. The Cubs have spent big money on the wrong people and they have not built the fundamental foundation that could get them from here to there. Would Theo Epstein, who has built this perennial contender in Boston, want to start from scratch in Chicago? "I try to avoid commenting on things so speculative," Epstein said when recently asked about the Cubs job. " free football games I can say I'm completely focused on the Red Sox, the 2011 Red Sox first and foremost, and what potentially lies ahead for this club. I'm really focused on trying to get to the postseason and win another World Series. I spend all my time working with my staff, making this organization what we want it to be, building for the future. That's where my focus is. Something like that [an offer from the Cu free football games bs], I can't even contemplate it long enough to comment on it.' "I'm really happy to be with the Red Sox. I'm really happy to be able to come to work at a place like this."To turn failure into success, the next Cubs general manager is going to have to begin at square one, examine every single aspect of the baseball operation, find where the multitude of mistakes have been made and determine where free football games the path out of the 103-year wilderness lies. He'd have to be granted a completely free hand from ownership and that's far from a given. He'd need a long, long, long contract, the patience of a saint, thick skin and a bulletproof vest. You do not generally get the Theo Epsteins of this world for this sort of work. free football games
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