Over at The Big Read, Joe Posnanski talks to Theo Epstein about The Cubs Way and how, once again, he is trying to save a franchise which is more famous for its futility than its glory.
There is a lot of good stuff in here, as it pretty much covers Epstein’s entire career. Just one of many interesting passages comes when he compared Boston and Chicago:
“Anyone who has spent time in both places will tell you that there’s more of an edge in Boston. Maybe it goes back to our puritanical roots, I don’t know. There’s just an innate cynicism. Even when things were going well, there was a sense of ‘when’s the other shoe going to drop?’ … In Chicago there seems to be a little more optimism. You see it at Wrigley Field. Even in a losing season, a player makes a nice catch and everyone is up, cheering and lifting their beers as if there’s no better place in the world at that moment. I just think there’s more optimism, more belief, less dread than in Boston.”
Block off a chunk of your morning and check it out.