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Last reply Nov 4, 2011 · posted in The Sports Section

As expected, Cubs beat the White Sox to the punch to talk to Theo Epstein

I had already heard rumors that the White Sox were interested in Theo. But as soon as that was public, I knew the Cubs were not too far behind.

Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein has been the sizzling hot stove candidate for a GM opening with the Chicago Cubs, and the Cubs made the next step in pursuing him Tuesday night, asking the Red Sox for permission to talk with Epstein, according to the Boston Globe.

Meetings to discuss the Cubs' request took place Tuesday at Fenway Park, the Globe reports.

Epstein is still under contract with the Red Sox, which means the club can refuse the request, or allow it with the condition that they receive some sort of compensation in return.

Contacted by phone Tuesday night by ESPNBoston.com, Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino refused comment.

A Red Sox official, asked about the likelihood of Epstein leaving, told ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes: "All I can tell you is (Epstein) is working with the same vigor and passion to make the Red Sox better. I realize that sounds like a company line, but it is the truth.''

Asked about the report, a Cubs spokesman declined to comment.

Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts was asked by Fox Business Network on Monday if Epstein would be coming to Chicago.

"I don't know; there's a lot of good candidates out there," he said. "We're going to talk to a handful of them and I'm sure we'll come up with the right fit for the team. Ultimately it will be the decision of myself and my family. Obviously we didn't get it done on the field this year. It was a disappointing season for everyone, but, we're going to get some new leadership."

Epstein, who has won two World Series with the Red Sox, has one year remaining on his contract and the team has not said that he will get an extension. In fact, a major league source told Edes that it's 50-50 that Epstein would leave for the right situation.

A source close to Epstein told ESPN MLB analyst Jim Bowden that Epstein was open to the possibility of taking over the Angels or Cubs if "president" were added to his GM title.

Chicago Cubs ask Boston Red Sox for permission to talk to Theo Epstein, report says - ESPN Chicago

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salsadancer7

Nov 3, 2011

televisionarchives said:
Theo is going to have a tough time in Chicago but I wish him luck.

Why do you think that?

televisionarchives

Nov 3, 2011

salsadancer7 said:
Why do you think that?

Theo didn't really do all the work in Boston. He was just a part of what helped the Red Sox win a World Series. And now that he's in Chicago you well see how overrated he was. He made many mistakes. The last one was Carl Crawford. John Henry didn't want him. The Cubs need a new Stadium. Wrigley is a mess.

salsadancer7

Nov 3, 2011

televisionarchives said:
Fenway was a mess. It's not anymore. I was at Wrigley 3 years ago. Television shows the good side of Wrigley. But the owner of the Cubs won't spend the money, that's the problem. Theo had the luxury of being with a team that had an owner that spent money . John Henry didn't have the final say on Carl Crawford. He left that to Theo.

How can you say he does not have the final say so when he is the owner? His final say so was to leave it up to Theo. That is on John. Believe me, we had our issues down here with Mr. Henry and his sometimes wishy-washy way of how to handle local goverment when he tried to get a stadium for the Marlins.

Jimbo

Nov 3, 2011

televisionarchives said:
Theo didn't really do all the work in Boston. He was just a part of what helped the Red Sox win a World Series. And now that he's in Chicago you well see how overrated he was. He made many mistakes. The last one was Carl Crawford. John Henry didn't want him. The Cubs need a new Stadium. Wrigley is a mess.

Do the Yankees think Granderson was a mistake ?
No, but the year he came over, he was terrible.

Crawford will bounce back next year.

televisionarchives

Nov 3, 2011

We shall see . The Cubs will need many years and luck to win.

Sent from the Planet Earth

AntAltMike

Nov 4, 2011

I still can't believe John Henry could publicly dump on Crawford when he is on the hook for about another $120 million to him and can't get rid of him without eating half of that.

Epstein made a lot of high stakes gambles. Sure, the J.D. Drew contract was a bad joke, but the rest were reasonable gambles for a big market team, some of which didn't pay off. As I pointed out in another thread, someone at ESPN.com had calculated the market value of first year performance of players who got blockbuster contracts, and Lackey's first season with the Red Sox was worth the $16 million he got paid that year, and the Red Sox can now still hope to get two plus more such years after he recovers from his surgery.

In fairness to Epstein, I thought Dunn was a better deal for the price than was Crawford, and not keeping Garciaparra was good business also.

televisionarchives

Nov 4, 2011

AntAltMike said:
I still can't believe John Henry could publicly dump on Crawford when he is on the hook for about another $120 million to him and can't get rid of him without eating half of that.

Epstein made a lot of high stakes gambles. Sure, the J.D. Drew contract was a bad joke, but the rest were reasonable gambles for a big market team, some of which didn't pay off. As I pointed out in another thread, someone at ESPN.com had calculated the market value of first year performance of players who got blockbuster contracts, and Lackey's first season with the Red Sox was worth the $16 million he got paid that year, and the Red Sox can now still hope to get two plus more such years after he recovers from his surgery.

In fairness to Epstein, I thought Dunn was a better deal for the price than was Crawford, and not keeping Garciaparra was good business also.

He was being honest but I don't remember if the the other owners were part of that interview . They always try to shut him up before he does that.

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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne

Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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JSheridan

Wednesday at 5:06 PM

AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

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EarDemon

Wednesday at 6:31 PM

JSheridan said:
AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

I did a 2500 mile round trip road trip a few weeks ago, there were a handful of places where Verizon had service and I had nothing on FirstNet. Most notably in the backwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee. Those same places I had no service on T-Mobile either. In populated areas, like the Lexington metro and Knoxville metro AT&T not only had great coverage, better than Verizon and T-Mobile generally, they have n77 everywhere. I hit 1.2 Gbps or higher pretty much everywhere, beating out the other two. That is the exact opposite here back in Western NY. Very little n77 on AT&T here and T-Mobile always rockets to 1.5 Gbps or higher.

As far as I know, there is no AT&T tower in my town. The tower I connect to when I'm outside, no service indoors, is one about 4.5 miles north of me in a different town, I can barley latch on to band 12, not 14. It's LTE only but when near that tower I exceed 200 Mbps which is phenomenal for low band LTE, but T-Mobile and Verizon have mid band on the same tower, and i'm well over a gig.

I'm looking forward to the n14 conversion and deployment of n79/4.9 GHz. Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

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JSheridan

Yesterday at 3:06 PM

EarDemon said:
... Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 5:42 PM

JSheridan said:
We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

The AT&T Internet that everyone has access to is AT&T WorldNet aka att.com which is the same backbone created in 1994 that is a joke. AT&T has 3 Internet tier 1 backbones. AT&T Global Network Services formerly IBM Global Network Services (prserv.net) and AT&T Emerging Network Services, formerly (CERFNet (California Educational and Research Foundation Network) that was part of NSFNet (National Science Foundation Network). AT&T WorldNet has always been a inferior and not the same quality as the other two which are highly respected.

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comfortably_numb

Yesterday at 7:58 PM

Almighty1 said:
The AT&T Internet that everyone has access to is AT&T WorldNet aka att.com which is the same backbone created in 1994 that is a joke

JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 9:18 PM

comfortably_numb said:
JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

I know, that still will use AT&T's 1996 created backbone better known as AS 7018 which is the lower end. The other two are higher end under AS2685 & AS2686 & AS1740 & AS1838.

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Juan

Yesterday at 10:10 PM

comfortably_numb said:
JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

Which connects to a backbone network

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Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Juan said:
Which connects to a backbone network

Fun fact.. the backhaul to the tower in Drexel, MO for both VZW and ATT is provided by CenturyLink

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There is a REASON trucks all have a very similar layout....it's what people want AND it serves the purposes those of us who have a truck needs.

As it is, most consumers buy trucks as comfortable transportation rather than commercial utility. The Cybertruck approach to that goal was way out in left field. It turned out to be more of an austere sedan with awful daily-driver attributes (visibility, parking). The expectations regarding truck durability were dashed early on.

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