Yeah, I don’t know either!
Actually he’s the skipper of the Tampa Bay Rays!
The first place Rays that is.
55-32, 5 games up on the second place Bosox. The Rays are in the Boogie down this week for a series with the third place Yankees, who are 9 games back.
They are pulling a Boston Celtics thus far; meaning they had the worst record in the big leagues last year and now have the best.
Maddon is in his third year as head honcho in TB.
Usually at this time of year it’s the Red Sox or Yankees on top of the AL East.
Tampa Bay.com has a piece on the dude with the thick, Clark Kent-like glasses in the dugout, winning games!
Although Maddon majored in economics at Lafayette College, he’s big into chemistry. And players say his relaxed management style — for which he’d been criticized upon arrival in 2006 — is a big part of their success now, such as his 30-minute rule, the amount of time he allots after games to enjoy wins or bemoan losses.
“A lot of people said he never gets upset at anything,” Carl Crawford said, “but you look at the situation now and that’s really helped so that we know we could move on to the next day and not have to harp on the past.”
“That’s just the way it is here,” Troy Percival said. “It doesn’t matter how we win or how we lose, it’s exactly the same a half-hour after the game in here. It’s almost like guys are already starting to prepare for tomorrow. His demeanor has pretty much overflowed that into here. He doesn’t get too high with wins, doesn’t get too high with what we’ve done so far, it’s ‘come back tomorrow.’ “
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