PHOENIX — You don't walk away from a dream job without explaining why. If you're Theo Epstein, and the dream job involves leading the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series championship in way too many decades, you write a column in the Boston Globe explaining why.
Epstein invoked the name of a sporting legend — not a Red Sox legend, or even a baseball legend, but Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh. The theory Walsh espoused was that a coach or executive should move on after 10 years of running a team.
"The executive gets rebirth and the energy that comes with a new challenge; the organization gets a fresh perspective, and the chance for true change that comes with new leadership," Epstein wrote. "This idea resonated with me."
