YES! BoSox curse-breaker Epstein will be the Cubs' new GM!

The Associated Press is reporting that Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, who built teams that won Boston two world championships in the last decade after it had gone since 1917 without one, will be named the Cubs' new GM within 48 hours.

His actual title will reportedly be President of Baseball Operations. The report says that he will sign a five-year contract worth more than $15 million.

He will be the first Cubs executive ever to have played with Pearl Jam.

Epstein, the architect of the demise of the Curse of the Bambino (allegedly wrought when Boston traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees), will now have a crack at the only longer drought in major league history. The Cubs have gone since 1908 without winning a world championship; the problem is allegedly  the Curse of the Billy Goat, supposedly initiated bythe refusal of Cubs' management to allow tavern owner Billy Sianis to bring his horned, bearded and smelly mascot into Wrigley Field for the 1945 World Series.

The Cubs lost the Series to the Detroit Tigers in six games, and despite what seemed like a sure thing in 1969 and close calls in 1984 and 2003 haven't been back to the Fall Classic since.