Month: October 2019

From the Box Seats, Darkly (Knowledge Part 3)

It is mid-July 2016. You are Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. You took the job after a similar position with the Boston Red Sox, who, under your leadership, broke an 86-year championship drought known as “The Curse of the Bambino.”[1] Now you have been hired to break an even longer drought, the 108-year old “Curse of the Billy Goat.”[2] … Read More From the Box Seats, Darkly (Knowledge Part 3)