Well, duh.
“Nothing related to losing ever gets easier,” Theo Epstein said to CSNChicago. “Losing
sucks. When losing stops sucking, you should probably find another
career.”
“We’re trying to build a really healthy organization,”
Epstein said. “There’s myriad challenges that present themselves daily
until you throw yourselves into those challenges and try to get better.”
“There’s 50 things a day
that can come up that provide an opportunity to get a little bit better
as an organization,” Epstein said. “That’s just one person. We have a
hundred people working on this thing. So (it’s not like): ‘Oh…the
losing. It doesn’t get any easier.’ It’s not like we spend a ton of time
sitting around stewing about that.
“You just try to throw
yourself into all the opportunities that present themselves to make us
better, so that we can win as quickly as possible and for as long as
possible.”
Epstein described a typical day: Visit Class-A Kane County. Watch draft video. Watch
minor-league video. Read scouting reports and player plans. Talk to
scouts and minor-league instructors.
But what Epstein has not said is how all the front office and staff work is changing the losing culture of the organization. If you have one hundred people working on winning, why aren't the Cubs winning? There continues to be no time table for the turnaround, i.e. winning, at the major league level. People are not quite sure the Cubs have not hit rock bottom yet. Constant losing creates rabid pessimists.
