November 3, 200520 yr BROCKTON, Mass. ? (AP) ? It didn't take long for Theo Epstein to get another offer to be a baseball general manager ? if he doesn't mind cuts in his salary and the team payroll. The independent Brockton Rox, who play about 30 minutes south of Fenway Park, offered Epstein their GM job on Thursday. The team, which plays in the Canadian-American League, is restricted to a total player payroll of $87,500 ? far less than the major league minimum of $316,000 per player and far below Boston's $126.8 million payroll this year. ??Its assumed that Epstein is looking for a greater challenge,'' the team said in a statement, noting that Epstein could sweeten the pot for players with an $18 per diem and put them up with a host family. Current Rox GM Andy Crossley basically dared Epstein to replace him. ??If the Rox can get Theo Epstein to take this job, great. All I can say is, good luck signing Manny Ramirez on our budget,'' Crossley said. ??We signed Emmanuel Ramirez as a pitcher last season, but we paid him about $800 per month.'' Rox owners include comedian Bill Murray and Mike Veeck, son of former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck. The team has led the league in attendance in each of the past three seasons, and this year it gave 45-year-old former Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd a platform for his comeback. The team said Epstein could join Boyd for Thanksgiving dinner in the pitcher's hometown of Meridian, Miss., in an effort to get the deal done. Epstein used a similar tack to bring Curt Schilling to Boston. One warning for the 31-year-old baseball boy wonder, though: ??We don't actually have an office for Theo,'' Rox president Jim Lucas said. ??But we built two new cubicles this year and he'd have his own phone and access to the internet.'' that is some funny stuff...you can tell it is a team partly owned by a Veeck....obviously no shot of Theo going there but funny as hell...Theo is running out of places unless he wants to take the year off...
November 4, 200520 yr Theo is probably going to do social work for a year then explore his options. And why do you paste stories in such a narrow column?
November 4, 200520 yr And why do you paste stories in such a narrow column? And change quotation marks to "ii"?
November 4, 200520 yr I'd assume wherever he's copying it from must be in that format... Theo's dream job right there!
November 4, 200520 yr Author Admin is right where i copy the stories from that is the format and sometimes I don't have enough time to go through and switch it.
November 4, 200520 yr I sent my resume. You may laugh, but I was offered a front office job with the Met's high class A affiliate, the Capital City Bombers, when I was 18. Oh I just got this email back from the team president: Todd, Thanks for the email. If Theo turns us down we are going to keep our current GM Andy Crossley. That being said I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you regarding your interest in baseball as a career. My number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. Any time next week would be fine. Regards, Jim Awesome
November 5, 200520 yr I sent my resume. You may laugh, but I was offered a front office job with the Met's high class A affiliate, the Capital City Bombers, when I was 18. Oh I just got this email back from the team president: Todd, Thanks for the email. If Theo turns us down we are going to keep our current GM Andy Crossley. That being said I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you regarding your interest in baseball as a career. My number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. Any time next week would be fine. Regards, Jim Awesome If I was competing with you for a job I would just send them some of your posts on this board as a rebuttal.
November 5, 200520 yr I sent my resume. You may laugh, but I was offered a front office job with the Met's high class A affiliate, the Capital City Bombers, when I was 18. Oh I just got this email back from the team president: Todd, Thanks for the email. If Theo turns us down we are going to keep our current GM Andy Crossley. That being said I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you regarding your interest in baseball as a career. My number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. Any time next week would be fine. Regards, Jim Awesome If I was competing with you for a job I would just send them some of your posts on this board as a rebuttal. The resume is going to the Red Sox next boy...
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