The State of Sports Nov. 3rd

Baseball

-The Theo Situation
In reviewing everything that has been said about the resignation, I have ultimately come to the conclusion that the sox front office is going to have a difficult time finding a replacement. Gammons has said, (and I quote from insider because it cant be linked):

"Towers has worked for Lucchino. Hunsicker is one of the game's best general managers. So is Milwaukee's Melvin, who worked for Lucchino in Baltimore. If the Red Sox decide they want a pure talent man -- and with the Yankees adding the revenue from their new ballpark,
talent evaluation is the way the Red Sox have to beat the Yankees in the future -- the name of LaCava (Toronto's director of player development) will be at the forefront. And if they want an organizational baseball mind with a huge reputation in the business, they will interview
White Sox assistant GM Rick Hahn.

The fans really care, and so does Henry; you have a chance to win the World Series; and
Lucchino was willing to pay Epstein $1.5 million a year. Theo needs his space -- he might go to South Africa with Pearl Jam and do social work -- and the Red Sox will find someone who wants to accomplish what he accomplished."

My view on this thing? I think that the media should be ashamed of themselves. Over the last week I read more articles that said that it was a power sharing issue than I did the new appointee for the supreme court. You can blame the Globe staff for hyping up the whole thing and really botching up coverage like this. It wasnt Shaughnessy's sunday article. Now you see reporters going along with what Theo said in his press conference. The last post i saw from Sean McAdam on ESPN was the last one before the press conference. And then the WEEI transcript with Callahan and Shaughnessy. Shamless. I am real disappointed at the people I look up to when I write my articles in "The Comment (BSC's newspaper)".

What is Boston going to do now? I think they will go out and find the best possible candidate. Fact is, they did not see this coming, contrary to what I said originally. Lucchino has done a heck of a job (with Epstien) to get the best possible front office, and I think they will do that. Problem is it has come at the wrong time. Winter meetings begin in the next two weeks. I am not worried because of the weak class of free agents. Once again I point to Sean McAdam's ESPN article. Sox wont be at a disadvange either because Epstein will stick around for a little while. I said spring training; maybe it will be a little more like a month. They want to sign Konerko right. Epstein sticks around to help with that.

More on free agents within the month.