By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer
October 31, 2005
BOSTON (AP) -- At 31, boy wonder Theo Epstein was ready to step out on his own.

The Red Sox general manager walked away from his hometown team on Monday, stunning Boston and the baseball world just one year after helping the franchise win its first World Series championship since 1918.

``I gave my entire heart and soul to the organization,'' Epstein said in a statement. ``During the process leading up to today's decision, I came to the conclusion that I can no longer do so. In the end, my choice is the right one not only for me but for the Red Sox.''

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Epstein will continue working for a few days to assist in the transition and prepare for the offseason. The Boston Herald, which first reported the news on its Web site, said the Yale graduate has told associates that he might leave baseball, or at least take a year off.

The Dodgers, Phillies and Devil Rays have GM openings, but none has a $120 million payroll to match the one Epstein was given in Boston.

Once the youngest GM in baseball history and still the youngest to assemble a World Series champion, Epstein was reportedly offered about $1.5 million a year for a three-year extension. That was quadruple his previous salary but still short of the $2.5 million the Red Sox offered Oakland's Billy Beane in 2002 before hiring Epstein.

But even after the money was settled, the negotiations turned into a fierce and Freudian standoff between the boy GM and the mentor who nurtured him from an intern to a World Series champion. By leaving, Epstein breaks a longtime link with Red Sox president Larry Lucchino, who hired him as a Baltimore Orioles intern and brought him to San Diego and then Boston.

The Herald said Epstein went through ``agonizing soul-searching'' over office politics and his relationship with his boss. Published reports that contained inside information about their relationship, ``slanted too much in Lucchino's favor,'' helped convince Epstein there had been a breach of trust, the Herald said.

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling told The Associated Press he was disappointed in the news but had seen indications that it might be coming.


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What can I say?

You guys can bitch about how evil the yanks are, but its obvious NO ONE IN BOSTON WANTS TO PLAY THERE OR FOR THAT KKK CITY.

Fuck them, first pedro bad mouths them scrubs, and then manny wants a trade, and wells wants a trade, now epstien resigns?

Haha too good to be true.

bitch ass red sox

not 2 mention manny wants out again now... something under the sheetz is happenin in boston...what the fuck is goin on???? alll i have 2 say is dude needs 2 come 2 L.A. and help them dodgers

I always wondered why Pedro left them after they won the World Series.

^^its quite obvious, the red sox nation(the fans) have a beef with minority players who cant perform, if manny slacks off one day, he gets blasted in their front page, if kevin millar fucks up, its nothing big, if pokey reese a black player makes an error, they blame him, call him nigger and all that, but graffinino essentially lost the series for them against the sox and he barely gets any criticism from the fans

they are on big papi's dick because that dude is the reason they made the wild card this yr, and a major reason to why they won the title last yr, once dude starts fading or has a bad season he will be booed out of boston. Its funny tho, boston has like 2 players that are non white, and the rest are white.

but see, the yanks dont have a racial problem, the yanks whole outfield(black hispanic, asian) is of different ethnicities, they have an interaccial player in jeter, a hispanic at third, second and catcher, a white dude at first, and their starting pitching multi ethnic too, THAT IS WHY MY FRIENDS, the yankees have a strong fan base, because people of different ethnicities can identify with us, new yorkers arent racist like those bostonian bitches.


and lastly, cashman and torre are BOTH staying, whereas Epstien leaves, do the math muthafuckas, the red sox are way more dysfunctional than the yanks WAY MORE. The red sox president Larry Luchino(the same faggot who started the evil empire bullshit), is the reason epstien left, and the media is quick to point out that the yanks are in disarray?
FUCK OUTTA HERE.


Go to boston as a black dude, lets see how much love yall get over there.

Boston=KKK central

The Big Apple, fuck Bean Town!