CSNChicago story with Theo Epstein has this revealing quote at the end:
“‘We don’t know (bleep)’ is a way to remind yourself – and remind
everyone around you – that there is way more we don’t know about the
game than what we do know about the game,” Epstein said. “All you can
really do is set a vision, hire great people, make sure your processes
are really sound and keep trying to get better each day and let things
fall where they may. That’s as true now as it was then.”
This is not what you want your team president or general manager barking to the media.
We were told that Epstein was a baseball boy genius; the architect of two World Series championships. He was the savior of the doomed Cub franchise. He was a turnaround artist. He had a plan.
This quote basically says:
a) have a plan;
b) hire good people; and
c) let the chips fall where they may.
That is not a plan but the mental state of a losing shooter at the craps table.
The Cubs chips have fallen and broken into thousands of pieces (as much as the no-shows at Wrigley Field).
