So sports fans, in case you haven't heard the big news:
Theo Epstein stunned the Red Sox and the baseball world this afternoon by walking away from his job as general manager.
Just hours before his deal was set to expire at midnight, Epstein told his bosses and associates at the Red Sox' Yawkey Way offices that he had decided not to accept a three-year deal worth $1.5 million a year, an extension for the contract he signed on Nov. 25, 2002.
Epstein had done some agonizing soul-searching the past few days, torn between staying at the job he had always coveted since his childhood days in Brookline and leaving because of intra-organizational politics and power struggles that he ultimately decided he could not live with any longer.
Money and length of the contract were not issues in the past few days for Epstein, who had lobbied hard for an annual salary of more than $1 million a year.
Well, good for Theo, I say. He won it all, had a great ride--but shouldn't talent like his really be put to some greater public use? Which raises the questions I explore on the flip ...
So if he leaves baseball--and I think he will--it seems like only a matter of time before young Theo runs for public office. The question is, where, and what?
Obviously he's from Boston, but could win anywhere in New England. And on a national ticket, I even think he'd still take New York ;)