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Bruce writes up the losers in the disappearance of Theo Epstein - pretty much everyone involved except for Theo and the Herald - and the unfortunate Globe beat reporters left to clean up after the Curly-Haired Boyfriend's mess:

... Good reporters such as Gordon Edes and Chris Snow are put in an impossible situation, and I don't judge them as harshly as the management of the Globe and ones like Shaughnessy who have disgraced themselves and the reputation of the largest newspaper in the region by abandoning any semblance of integrity by eagerly snapping up the scraps of whatever information that Red Sox management will feed them and serving as their virtual mouthpiece. ...

Feline Anarchy reports she got nauseous moments before somebody e-mailed her the news:

...I IM Annette demanding details. What! The hell! I'm all the way out here in the midwest, and the hall around me is entirely way too calm for this BURGEONING CRISIS.

Immediately I get an IM from my mother, who is understandably REALLY FUCKING UPSET. ...

More reaction:

Soxaholix: I feel like I have nothing to say today.

David looks at the politics of Theogate:

... And how about our own Dick Cheney, Shaughnasty, the only guy who goes from "irrelevant" to "Category 4" in about three-point-eight-seconds. Like Cheney, Danny Boy had lost a lot of the spotlight since last September. Every now and then Cheney would go for a heart test, and every now and then DB would make a little noise like when he proclaimed the Sox had clinched somewhere near Patriots' Day. But neither figured to ever be front-page worthy again.

Yet, here we are: Danny Boy and Dicky Boy - together in scandal of varying degrees. ...

Johnny doesn't think much of CHB - or for that matter, Tony Massarotti, whom he says was sucking up to his sources as much as Shaughnessy was to his:

... Maybe this will lead to an investigation and rolling curly-haired heads. That would be fun. If only Tony Mazz could also somehow lose his job...

Firestarter: Will the Sox survive? Of course.

But as far as success, I expect that they'll take a couple giants steps backward. It's going to be a long winter...

Beth imagines Red Sox Nation as Scarlett and Theo as Rhett.

Rebecca: Is This Some Freakish Nightmare?

SoxFan: Was the Globe was relying on "Official A" for their story, for f**k's sake?

Steve: This is not my best Halloween ever.

My standard newspaper disclosure.

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Who or what is "C.H.B" ?

I know I'll kick myself once I know but if I don't ask I'll be SOL.

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CHB = "Curly Haired Boyfriend." Origins of the phrase.

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Eh, I'm already over it B)

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