by Tony Lee on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:40AM   Theo Epstein and Terry Francona have been linked for eight years in the Red Sox organization. They've been lauded together as the central figures in the best decade in team history. This month, they were side-by-side as targets in a budding rumor that suggested the two were not seeing eye-to-eye. And on Wednesday night at Camden Yards, they were paired once more in a quest for answers. "This is one for the ages, isn't it?" Epstein said in the moments after a gut-wrenching loss teamed with a Tampa Bay Rays win to end Boston's season. "We played poorly in September. You can't sugarcoat this. This is awful. We did it to