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Reddit mentions of The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
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| Release date | March 2017 |
You're getting downvoted, but Epstein suggested as much in Verducci's book. About his final year with Boston:
> We're the best team in baseball, we look really good, it's August of 2011, I'm thinking this would be really great if we can win a World Series and I can leave on topβa third World Series, they're set up for the future.
Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way 38.
With regard to Epstein's thoughts and leaving Boston:
> Several factors began to push [Epstein] further away emotionally from the Red Sox. Epstein read a book by Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh that summer in which Walsh wrote that the voice of a coach or executive turns stale after about a decade with one organization.
> "He talked about it as a sports executive, but it applied to almost any situation in a leadership role," Epstein said. "That it benefits not only the individual but also the institution to seek change every 10 years. And I've seen it, with managers or coaches in other sports, leaders.
> The same message or the same voice tends to get tuned out a little bit just by human nature. So it's impossible to have the same originality, same creativity, same freshness . . . it's impossible to look at things with an open lens. You start to close your lens based on your successes and failures a little bit."
Id. 37-38.
Assuming he still holds to that same philosophy (and there's no reason to think he doesn't) he may very well move on after his most recent extension, which coincidentally would be 10 years with the Cubs. If that's the case, hopefully they can win more than one more World Series in the next few years.