The Chicago Cubs have embarked on what might be their most important offseason in franchise history, one that will start the team’s transformation from lovable loser to perennial World Series threat.
It starts now, and Theo Epstein will drive the push.
Epstein was hired as the team’s president three years ago. He had already broken the "Curse of the Bambino" in Boston, and the Cubs charged him with shattering their own "Curse of the Billy Goat." Having not won a World Series since 1908 or a National League pennant since 1945, the franchise is in Epstein’s hands, and he is now ready ...
If anyone is in need of a seminar on how to absolutely nail the handling of expectations and pressure, see Joe Maddon.
The Chicago Cubs’ newly minted skipper was officially introduced Monday, and all of the franchise lore, suffering and newfound promise was dumped on his silver-haired head in one sitting. And as Joe Maddon has come to do, he handled it with spectacular perfection.
If there was any doubt regarding how Maddon’s loose, seemingly carefree attitude would play in a city where Cubs misery is matched only by Chicago's desperation for a winner, Maddon demolished it with a cracked smile and ...
There was no way the Theo Epstein regime was going to sit on its hands with bait in its pockets and a big fish in the water.
Joe Maddon—that big fish—will be announced as the Cubs' new manager at a 2 p.m. press conference scheduled for Monday.
Maddon, a two-time AL Manager of the Year, was too tempting not to go after. Epstein even said as much on Friday to Bob Nightengale of USA Today:
The #Cubs offered Renteria another job in the organization, and he declined. Theo Epstein said they decided Maddon was too good to pass up.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October ...
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