ESPN.com: Page 2 : Prodigal son, departs

my first thought on hearing of Theo Epstein's divorce from the Red Sox was to check the blogs. Sure enough, baseball primer pointed to this excellent Bill Simmons column from ESPN.
ESPN.com: Page 2 : Prodigal son, departs: "Call me crazy, but I believe this is a bigger story than Theo Epstein leaving the Red Sox -- an unprecedented situation where a sports franchise controls the local coverage of itself, to some degree, in every possible medium."