Bill Simmons has the inside baseball on the way Red Sox G.M. Theo Epstein parted company with the team. He says it took a lot of guts for Epstein to walk away from his "dream job", even after winning a ring. And Simmons is all over the major Boston media and the Red Sox ownership...oops, same people.
As for the Red Sox, they have shamed themselves beyond belief, with the Shaughnessy column being the final straw. The same guys who brought Boston a World Series also formed an Orwellian media conglomerate in which they control all the information in the city's most important newspaper, as well as the TV and radio stations that carry the games. Just about every Red Sox-related scoop is directed to one of those three outlets, with Boston Herald writers repeatedly complaining about the unfairness of it all. In particular, the Epstein coverage was appallingly one-sided from the Globe's side -- culminating in Shaughnessy's incredible column, to the point that Red Sox fans have to question the credibility of anything they read in what used to be a sports section that meant something. It was telling that, on the same day that Theo announced his resignation, Monday's Globe contained a story reporting that he had signed for three years.
(via Eric at Off Wing Opinion)
Posted by dan at November 8, 2005 1:36 AM