{"id":150,"date":"2023-02-28T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/?p=150"},"modified":"2023-02-28T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:22:52","slug":"cubs-world-series-winning-manager-joe-maddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/cubs-world-series-winning-manager-joe-maddon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs World Series Winning Manager Joe Maddon Shoots Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you write a popular book about yourself but also critical of the game that fed you? <strong>Joe Maddon<\/strong> is finding out, while he was aware his book, \u201cThe Book of Joe: Try Not to Suck at Baseball &amp; Life\u201d could prevent him from managing again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to manage again but there\u2019s no reason to interview deceptively or put out a false method of what you think and how you think,&#8221; Maddon says on this week&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Joe being Joe&#8221; and it\u2019s led him to great success in the big leagues albeit it took him until age 51 to get a managerial job. Tampa hired him in 2006. Three seasons later he had them in the World Series and they won 90 or more games 5 times in his 9 seasons there. Then, a loophole in his contract allowed him to sign with the Cubs and in 2016, the unthinkable\u2026The Cubs won their first <strong>World Series<\/strong> title in 108 years!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou lay down on your pillow and wake up and say wow, we did this. Knowing the parade would ensue I really had no idea it was kind of that magnitude to it,&#8221; Maddon relates about the epic moment of winning it all.<\/p>\n<p>But, in 2019 Maddon and then team president Theo Epstien parted ways. \u201cIt was shocking. It didn\u2019t expect it to happen.\u201d But it did and it happened again in Anaheim where I\u2019m in 2022 he was fired after Angels lost 12 in a row.<\/p>\n<p>By then, Maddon was collaborating with Tom Verducci on his second book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cubs-world-series-winning-manager-joe-maddon-tell-me\/id1549396526?i=1000601983679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hear the full conversation<\/a> on this week&#8217;s &#8220;Tell me a story I don&#8217;t know&#8221; by clicking play below,<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cubs-world-series-winning-manager-joe-maddon-tell-me\/id1579428237?i=1000601984318\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While managing isn\u2019t out of question, joining a front office also would intrigue Maddon who\u2019s done just about everything else in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I have a lot to offer. It would have to be the right marriage so when that opportunity arises again which I think it will, there\u2019s a lot I can bring to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question now is will a team gamble on Maddon who turned 69 earlier this month? After being <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/06\/07\/joe-maddon-fire-angels\/\" target=\"_self\">fired by the LA Angels<\/a>, time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me a story I don\u2019t know\u201d is thrilled to be a partner with Last Word on Sports (@lastwordonsports) and is proudly sponsored by Mr. Duct, a top Chicago area business providing comprehensive air duct cleaning and maintenance for residential and businesses. (www.mrductcleaning.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you write a popular book about yourself but also critical of the game that fed you? Joe Maddon is finding out, while he was aware his book, \u201cThe Book of Joe: Try Not to Suck at Baseball &amp; Life\u201d could prevent him from managing again. \u201cI\u2019d like to manage again but there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4448,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49,48],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-anaheim-angels","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}