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Bo Sox's GM Theo Epstein resigns
Red Sox surprise; GM Epstein leaves team
BOSTON -- Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein resigned Monday, a stunning move that surprised the baseball world one year after he helped build Boston's first World Series championship team since 1918.
The 31-year-old Epstein was reportedly offered about $4.5 million for a three-year extension - quadruple his previous salary. But it was still short of the $2.5 million a year the Red Sox offered Oakland's Billy Beane in 2002 before making Epstein the youngest GM in baseball history.
"He did resign," Red Sox spokesman Charles Steinberg said.
According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the news on its website, Epstein went through "agonizing soul-searching" as he considered whether to continue working for team president Larry Lucchino, whom he followed from Baltimore to San Diego to Boston.
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http://cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/9015254
This could do some serious damage to the Red Sox off season.
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10-31-2005, 07:16 PM
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isnt his contract up tom?
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10-31-2005, 07:17 PM
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Looks like all is not well in the Red Sox nation. First the "gangsta" announces for the 49th time that he wants to be traded, now this.
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10-31-2005, 07:20 PM
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Epstein Quits Sox - Leaves $1.5 Million on Table
Theo Epstein just resigned as General Manager of The Red Sox.
This is a huge shock as only as recently as this morning the Boston Globe was reporting the deal was done on a $1.5 Million per year contract that would have kept Theo with the Red Sox for at least 3 more years.
Widely hailed as the architect of the squad of "idiots" that finally broke the Red Sox curse, Epstein was previously paid $350,000 per annum. He had been seeking compensation more in line with league leading GM Cashman of the Yankees, the Sox ancient nemesis.
Precise reasons behind Epstein's resignation presently remain unclear, though one The Boston herlad indicates that personality conflicts with Larry Lucchino may be the root of the undoing of what looked like a sealed deal as of this morning. From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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GM Theo Epstein walks away from Red Sox
By JIMMY GOLEN
AP SPORTS WRITER
<!--BEGIN ARTICLE--> <!--IMAGE--> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="230"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="10"> </td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td width="10"> </td><td>Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein speaks at a news conference in Boston in this June 3, 2003 file photo. Epstein resigned Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, a stunning move that surprised the baseball world one year after he helped build Boston's first World Series championship team since 1918. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) </td></tr></tbody> </table> <!--END IMAGE--> BOSTON -- Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein resigned Monday, a stunning move that surprised the baseball world one year after he helped build Boston's first World Series championship team since 1918.
The 31-year-old Epstein was reportedly offered about $4.5 million for a three-year extension - quadruple his previous salary. But it was still short of the $2.5 million a year the Red Sox offered Oakland's Billy Beane in 2002 before making Epstein the youngest GM in baseball history.
"He did resign," Red Sox spokesman Charles Steinberg said.
According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the news on its Web site, Epstein went through "agonizing soul-searching" as he considered whether to continue working for team president Larry Lucchino, whom he followed from Baltimore to San Diego to Boston.
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From the Boston Channel
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Epstein Resigns As Sox GM
Epstein's Contract Expires At Midnight Monday
POSTED: 5:41 pm EST October 31, 2005
UPDATED: 6:14 pm EST October 31, 2005
<!--startindex-->BOSTON -- Theo Epstein resigned as general manager of the Boston Red Sox Monday after failing to agree on a new contract with ball club.Epstein's contract, signed in 2002, expires at midnight on Oct. 31. He resigned from his post late Monday afternoon. The team released a statement that said Epstein, 31, will continue to work with the team for the next few days to "assist in an orderly transition" with off-season activities and to prepare for upcoming general manager meetings.A report in the Boston Herald said that Epstein was concerned about his relationship with the team's owners. The article said that Epstein was upset about a column in the Boston Sunday Globe about his relationship with team president Larry Lucchino, and thought that the column signaled bad faith from the ownership group.Epstein and Lucchino had several negotiating sessions during the past week trying to come to an agreement on a new deal.Reports from most major media sources earlier in the day indicated that Epstein was close to signing the new deal worth about $1.5 million a year for three years.There are general manager vacancies several major league teams, including the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.In 2004, Epstein became the youngest general manager to win the World Series. He also signed slugger David Ortiz for just more than $1 million after Ortiz was released by the Minnesota Twins.Epstein was the league's youngest general manager in history when he was appointed at age 28. He described the position as his dream job, having grown up in Brookline, Mass., just down the street from Fenway Park.Epstein is expected to make a statement on his decision Monday night.
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From what Im reading over on a Baseball forum, they are saying the reason is because he wanted his privacy back.
I'm sure everywhere he went, he would get hounded with people looking for autographs or trade ideas.
Although....I dont feel sorry for him. Id kill to be in his position. 
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10-31-2005, 08:08 PM
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The following is the text of the Boston Globe article (sub required) cited as a straw that broke the camel's back.
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DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Let's iron out some of this dirty laundry
By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist | October 30, 2005
The news conference should be at Fenway tomorrow afternoon. Halloween. No tricks. No boos. Look for the traditional handshake and jack-o-lantern smiles from Theo Epstein and Larry Lucchino. They'll say they look forward to many more years working together to bring championship baseball to Boston.
It's too bad it went this far. Too bad it took this long. Theo's old contract expires at midnight tomorrow, and there were a few hours last week when it felt like he might actually leave the Sox.
Now it looks as though Theo's new deal will be announced tomorrow and life will return to normal on Yawkey Way. Theo can get back to business, trying to trade Manny Ramirez and figuring out what to do about center field, first base, third base, and the pitching staff for 2006.
The unfortunate part of the entire episode is that a lot of inside stuff went public. The father-son dynamic of Lucchino and Epstein has been unveiled before all of Red Sox Nation. The family linen was aired publicly and now every move will be examined for fingerprints: Theo or Larry? Did they agree? Did Theo have to talk Larry into it? Or was this some bigfoot move by Lucchino?
Theo Epstein is a truly remarkable young man from a truly remarkable family. He would be a success in any field of his choice and Boston is fortunate that he set out to have a career in baseball. He got to the mountaintop faster than anyone in the history of the game and deserves to be paid accordingly. But he did not get there alone. And that's why he's not signed yet. That's why this has taken so long.
The Theo-Larry story is as old as the Bible. Mentor meets protege. Mentor teaches young person all he knows. Eventually, the prodigy is ready to make it on his own and no longer feels he needs the old man. That's what we've seen unfold on Yawkey Way, and that's why the Theo deal is not done yet.
Larry taught Theo too well and now he is looking in the mirror as he tries to hammer out a deal with the GM he made in his own image. Both are merely doing what they are trained to do. In Theo's case, he's doing what Larry trained him to do.
What is alarming -- for the future of the Sox franchise -- is Theo's sudden need to distance himself from those who helped him rise to his position of power. Lucchino and Dr. Charles Steinberg are a pair of Red Sox executives who ''discovered" Theo when he was a student at Yale. They picked him out of thousands of wannabe interns. They hired him in Baltimore and then took him to San Diego with them. They held his hand and drove him places during his Wonder Years. They urged him to get his law degree. And when they set up stakes at Fenway Park, they fought vigorously to bring him home. A year later, when Billy Beane got cold feet, Lucchino turned to 28-year-old Theo and made him the (then) youngest GM in the history of baseball.
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