🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Theo Epstein steps down as Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operation Theo Epstein has officially stepped down today after nine seasons with the club. Under his guidance the Cubs won its first World Series in 108 years in 2016. So what is next for Theo Epstein? Well, there is a team in New York that has a new billionaire owner that promised his fans that they'd win a World Series in the next 3-5 years. What's next for the Chicago Cubs? #waittosee -------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There you go, there you go.
0:07.2	Bonus word of the day, we got a bonus pod.
0:11.5	It's Bulldog.
0:13.6	Theo Epstein is a Yale alumni, he's Bulldog.
0:16.7	Theo Epstein is leaving the Chicago Cubs in a move that was widely expected by everyone
0:24.2	who knew anything has come as a huge surprise to those who didn't realize that now is exactly
0:33.3	the time that Theo was going to leave.
0:36.4	Let me explain.
0:37.4	Theo Epstein has been working with Jed Hoyer for many, many years.
0:41.5	Jed Hoyer is the GM of the Cubs.
0:43.8	Theo Epstein is the President-Based Operations of the Cubs.
0:47.1	The transition plan was always going to be, Theo would move on, and Jed would be promoted
0:53.3	and become the President-Based Operations.
0:56.9	Theo has $10 million left on his contract one more year.
1:02.0	Theo was not happy to run the Cubs any longer, not because of what happened in Boston when
1:08.3	he got tired of working with Larry Latino, and therefore left the Red Sox, remember in
1:12.8	that gorilla suit?
1:14.8	It's not that Theo was tired of working with the Ricketts family.
1:18.8	Theo wanted something that the Ricketts family was not willing to do.
1:24.0	Say it with me.
1:26.0	Oh no, shit.
1:28.0	It's the new thing.
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