The Leahy Lounge

In a shatteringly ignorant display of heavy handed cockknockery, Larry Lucchino and the Red Sox brass have orchestrated the resignation of Theo Epstein, the only general manager in the last 87 years to bring a world series championship to the city.

Utilizing yellow journalist Dan Shaughnessy, Lucchino employed a vicious smear campaign designed to put the upstart Epstein in his place. Epstein responded by telling the Red Sox to shit in a hat, and, in the process, turned down a $4.5 million contract.

Some tidbits (emphasis added):

"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.

Epstein had come close to agreeing to a deal Saturday evening but had not officially conveyed acceptance of it. On Sunday, he began having serious misgivings about staying on. A leading contributing factor, according to sources close to the situation, was a column in Sunday’s Boston Globe in which too much inside information about the relationship between Epstein and his mentor, team president and CEO Larry Lucchino, was revealed -- in a manner slanted too much in Lucchino’s favor. Epstein, according to these sources, had several reasons to believe Lucchino was a primary source behind the column and came to the realization that if this information were leaked hours before Epstein was going to agree to a new long-term deal, it signaled excessive bad faith between him and Lucchino."

Thank you, Larry Lucchino, for sabotaging the franchise because Theo has a bigger wang and gets more tail than you.