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Some stories, you really just have to let speak for themselves. General manager Theo Epstein evading reporters on the day he resigned by wearing a gorilla costume? That would be one of them.
Theo reportedly spent some time monkeying around the baseball operations office in the monkey suit then left the building, right under the noses of the assembled media horde! "It was Halloween and no one thought anything of it," said Someone Who Was There. "He went right past the reporters, listened to what they were saying for a while, then jetted home."
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise us if Epstein disappears for three years, not a trace, and then comes back, Andy Kaufman-esque, telling tales of Atlantis.
By the way, two excellent resources for last words on the Epstein story:
• Boston Sports Media has a dialogue about Dan Shaughnessy that sums up everything you'd need to know.
• We might make fun of him a little here, but Our Boy Bill Simmons' column about this whole debacle is truly outstanding, touching on what happens, exactly, when someone reaches their dream too fast, too soon, too much.
Who Knew? Gorilla Was In Their Midst [Boston Herald] (via BenMaller.com)
Comments
I think I went to college with Someone Who Was There.
Wow. I thought Theo was a pretty bright guy after the Nomar trade, but the gorilla suit is pure genius....I think I might see if he's available to be my "GM" for a few weeks. Not that I own a professional sports team or anything, it just seems like he'd be a handy guy to have around for advice and stuff. My favorite quote from the Herald: "...in fact, a black Volvo similar to the one Theo drives, did leave the park near Gate D at about 9 p.m. on Halloween night with a gorilla reportedly at the wheel." I love everything about the phrase "with a gorilla reportedly at the wheel."
yes the gorilla suit was pure genius..now for his next act of pure genius spend a year or two in the mountains and then come back to the sox and reconstruct another world series title. p.s. the nation needs ya theo
Theo just confirmed during his press conference that he left in the gorilla suit on Monday. I'm not a Red Sox fan, but he's my new hero.
"with a gorilla reportedly at the wheel." Oh, isn't that cute. A baby driving a car. And look, there's a dog driving a bus! -- Clancy Wiggum
Come on, that gorilla suit is the oldest trick in the book. Doesn't anyone remember when Harry Hamlin got in a gorilla suit and convinced Susan Dey to leave her fiance at the altar on L.A. Law?
So when Brian Cashman finally snaps and leaves the Yankees, what will be his costume?
That Simmons column bothers me. "Theo Epstein was overrated." Suuure he was.
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