Co What???

When the rumors were circulating that the Red Sox were going to name co-General Managers (or shouldn't it be Generals Manager) to replace Theo Epstein, I thought it was a joke. Theo was good and all, but two people to replace him? Come on.

Well, darned if they didn't do it. Today the Sox announced that Jed Hoyer and Ben Cherington will share the GM duties (and presumably all decision-making responsibility about trades, free agent signings, etc.). Sounds a bit suspect to me, but hey, Larry Lucchino had a straight face when he announced it, so why not give it a shot? Stranger things have happened.