You have to wonder when it was that Chicago Cubs‘ owner Tom Ricketts decided Theo Epstein would be the man for the job. After watching him break the “Curse of the Bambino” when did Rickett’s start thinking about breaking the curse of that damn billy goat? Whenever he first thought about it, it was October 12, 2011, that they made it happen.
The Cubs, unlike the Boston Red Sox when he took them over, were not a winning team. And things got worse before they got better. But that was exactly what Epstein preached. Trust the plan.