推 catsondbs:Schillin下毒這手段也是跟Dummies書裡學來的嗎 XD 02/02 23:18
推 Monoson:拿$20鋪地板有點誇張 原文是說拿了一堆$20當清潔工小費 02/03 15:39
Old foes Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein catch up in Connecticut
By 'Duk | Big League Stew – Wed, Feb 1, 2012 7:50 AM EST
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/
old-foes-brian-cashman-theo-epstein-catch-connecticut-125059856.html
老對頭終於可以坐下來談交易了！
一篇蠻有趣的報導。兩人也回顧了當年為了爭奪 Jose Contreras
的趣事：紅襪把整個旅館房間都包下來，迫使洋基的人員住到
對街，Theo還和Contreras喝到早上四點多。但最後人還是被
洋基搶走了──誰能拒絕多1000萬美金的誘惑？幾年後Theo
遇上Contreras，忍不住問他到底是怎樣？Contreras回說：
我不知道啦！
紅襪簽席林姐前，Theo的助理總經理吃了席林嫂的料理中毒，
把旅館房間吐得滿地都是，Theo只好把吐過的地方都用20塊美金
鋪好.... 簽定席林後，他發現席林桌上擺著一本書：
Negotiating For Dummies....
Editors note: The following post is a midwinter dispatch from Dylan
Stableford of Yahoo! News
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — "I never wanted to be the general manager of the New York
Yankees," Brian Cashman said. "I still don't."
You would think he was joking, but he said it twice.
Cashman and Theo Epstein, his former Red Sox rival-cum-Cubs president, took
part in a wide-ranging, surprisingly candid discussion with ESPN's Steve
Berthiaume on the campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut
on Tuesday.
Theo and Cash, as they call each other now, have not seen Moneyball.
"We live it," Epstein said.
But they have enough stories for a sequel.
Cashman recounted his contentious relationship with George Steinbrenner. "We
had some legendary fights," Cashman recalled, calling the late Yankees owner
"intense" and "the boss of all bosses."
"Forget the game, every inning was Armageddon," Cashman said. "It was very
tough to operate like that in a game of chance like baseball."
The Yankees GMs that had preceded him— including Bob Watson and Bob Quinn —
were worried about their health. And he understood why: "The jubilation from
the winning was, 'Thank God we didn't lose.'"
The most striking example of that dynamic came during the 2000 Subway Series
against the Mets, when Steinbrenner was concerned that the Yankees'
television contract with MSG hinged on the outcome. "It felt like if we lost,
we'd lose the city," Cashman said. "The entire corporate business plan was on
the line."
At one point during a Q+A with the audience, a brash youngster asked Cashman
bluntly, "Do you feel comfortable with A.J. Burnett in the starting rotation?"
"You sound like George," Cashman quipped.
Losing was not tolerated off the field, either — especially when it came to
free agents coveted by Epstein, like, say, Jose Contreras.
In 2002, Boston's Latin American scout was the first to arrive at a
Nicaraguan hotel where Contreras — who had defected from the Cuban national
team--was staying, and booked the room next to the right-hander.
"He called me up and said, 'All the other teams are on their way down here,
what do you want me to do?' I said, 'Buy all the rooms,'" Epstein recalled.
He did, and Yankees executives were forced to stay down the road. "We were
smoking cigars and drinking rum [with Contreras] at four in the morning."
"The boss was not happy," Cashman recalled of Epstein's stunt. "He would not
be denied."
The next day, Epstein said, the Yankees offered him $10 million more.
"That was it," Epstein said, adding that he confronted Contreras in the
tunnel at Yankees Stadium years later. "I said, 'What happened?' He said, 'I
don't know.'"
Another pitcher both executives coveted was Curt Schilling. In Nov. 2003,
Epstein flew to Arizona to negotiate a contract with Schilling, spending
Thanksgiving with the family. Schilling's wife cooked her first Thanksgiving
turkey. Jed Hoyer, Epstein's assistant GM, got food poisoning.
"He was vomiting all over the place," Epstein said. "I was throwing $20 bills
all over the hotel room for the maid because I felt so bad."
When Epstein finally reached a deal with Schilling, he said he walked into
Schilling's home office to type up the contract. Sitting on the desk, a copy
of "Negotiating For Dummies."
"He had been using it the whole time," Epstein said.
The new Cubs president bemoaned the rise of Moneyball-style management,
because until the book became a New York Times bestseller, only a handful of
teams were able to truly assess the market.
"Owner of baseball teams have a lot of leisure time because they're really
rich," Epstein said. "So they're on their yachts, reading 'Moneyball,'
saying, 'Hey, why aren't we doing this?'"
The unlikely chummy GMs revealed only once did they even discuss a trade,
when Epstein, then in his first year in Boston, offered Shea Hillenbrand for
Nick Johnson.
"Cash laughed at me," Epstein said.
Dylan Stableford works for Yahoo! News. Find more of his work here or follow
him on Twitter — @stableford.
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