In late 2005, a year after delivering the first world championship since 1918, Theo Epstein briefly retired and snuck out of Fenway in a gorilla suit.



Six years and another World Series title later, after Terry Francona was fired because of a September collapse — although he was never actually told by ownership — Epstein quit again and was on his way to Chicago to launch an attack on 1908.



He was replaced by Ben Cherington, and in 2013 the Red Sox won their third world championship in 10 seasons.



Less than two years after that title, Cherington was ousted in favor of Dave Dombrowski, who had a longtime relationship with owner John Henry. Just more than three years later, with three major trades and/or signings and the best positional team in the American League signed, drafted and developed and raised by the previous regimes, they won another world championship.



And five minutes into Sept. 9, 2019, Dombrowski was dismissed. Which means...