Theo to Chicago Cubs

[HollywoodLeo]

So, what you're saying is, Selig would need to give the de facto approval?

[Tobywan]

Source -- Chicago Cubs may announce Theo Epstein hire during World Series - ESPN Chicago

Hoyer would be the de facto hierarchy of baseball operations.

Hello? This link was posted on page 4 at around 2:30 this afternoon.

[love_that_reefer]

Hello!

[HollywoodLeo]

LTR posted the de facto re-post

[Tobywan]

Maybe if you guys would de facto read instead of de facto fight???

[Providence A's]

haha ok even though I thought we were booking 2-3 top tier prospects.

lol. Exactly. Whatever ends up happening, CJ will say it's what they wanted all the long and might even take credit for it, too.

[realmofotalk]

I understand the part where you are dead wrong and reaching. No, he is not the head of all baseball operations as GM. Being the President of Baseball Operations and being the GM/VP are not the same thing!! What part of that don't you fucking understand???

Head/Director/President of Baseball Operations...GM/VP...it's the same shit. He's been the top baseball operations exec for the Red Sox.

[love_that_reefer]

Head/Director/President of Baseball Operations...GM/VP...it's the same shit.

No it isn't

[realmofotalk]

No it isn't

Your argumentative skills impress me once again.

[Trendy Bastard]

at what I missed.

All signs point to this being done very soon. Take this worth a grain of salt, because David Kaplan is a jackass, but he says the deal is basically done. There should be some sort of leak tomorrow that says the deal is done, with an announcement coming Friday(with Selig's approval).

I've been expecting Theo to come in and be president of baseball operations since I found out that he agreed to come here. He's going to have the final say in what happens here, and he'll bring in his own guy to be the "GM", who will handle day to day moves. I'm actually quite happy that it turned out this way. Theo won't have to answer to anyone, besides Ricketts, which is a different situation than what he was in, in Boston.

I'm pumped and nervous at the same time. Hopefully logic and I are right when I said that no top prospects will be headed to Boston.

[love_that_reefer]

Your argumentative skills impress me once again.

Better than completely making shit up and being wrong at every turn. How do you argue with someone who contradicts themselves in the same sentence?

[realmofotalk]

I've been expecting Theo to come in and be president of baseball operations since I found out that he agreed to come here. He's going to have the final say in what happens here, and he'll bring in his own guy to be the "GM", who will handle day to day moves.

Translation: Theo will be the "real" GM and his appointee will be the GM-in-name-only.

[HollywoodLeo]

We should make this the de facto World Series thread since it received more attention during Game 1 than the actual gameday thread.

[Trendy Bastard]

Translation: Theo will be the "real" GM and his appointee will be the GM-in-name-only.

I mean, if you want to put it as blindly as that.

The new GM will be doing all of the FA signings, the trading, and the movement in the minor league levels. The things every other GM in baseball does. Theo will just be the one with the final say, which is what every "President of Baseball Operations" does.

[love_that_reefer]

Trendy, you dumbass. GM's and Presidents are the exact same thing!!!