Lucchino to leave the Sox?

Published Aug 12 2008, 11:37 AM by Ian Donnis

Phoenix alum Seth Mnookin did a great job in documenting the inner workings (and inner tensions) of the Sox in Feeding the Monster.

Now Jon Heyman at SI.com dangles a look forward at a piece of the same pie.

One big part of the Red Sox championship teams has already moved from Boston to the Dodgers. Could another be on the way?

People in high places in baseball are starting to speculate about whether this could be the last season together for the highly successful yet increasingly uncomfortable front-office tandem of GM Theo Epstein and president/CEO Larry Lucchino, and one logical ending would have Lucchino joining Manny Ramirez in Los Angeles. It's all speculation now, but it's not all that farfetched.

Despite the well-documented difficulties and differences of Epstein and Lucchino -- Lucchino is said by people familiar with the just-departed Ramirez soap opera to have been much more committed to keeping Ramirez, no matter how badly the man-child superstar behaved and how much he risked undermining the clubhouse -- the two innovative Yalies have engineered this Red Sox renaissance and combined to bring two World Series titles to the previously star-crossed and storied organization. Yet there is burgeoning talk among baseball's elite that the end of their baseball relationship could be at hand.

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