Joe Maddon

Enjoy.

Stay up there.

There were no players there.

Are you kidding me?

Thank you, Anthony.

And that was, I remember that so well, you know, just getting there in the first place.

I really didn't have any Cub tradition built into me.

I was an American leaguer.

You

Jed and Theo showed up down in your neck of the woods down near Tallahassee and Navarre Beach.

And I was in my RV at Navarre Beach and they come down there and they sit down.

We sit down in the back of my, behind my RV on this little, little beach back there and just start talking philosophically, right?

And when you had some history with them, I did with interviewing in Boston, right?

That was many years before that was 2004 when Tito got the job.

And I really wasn't ready for that job at that time.

I even told them afterwards, you guys made the right choice.

Tito was a much better choice for me than me at that particular juncture.

But I was the best choice at that particular juncture, I thought.

My time with the Rays really helped me with the planning component of that.

I knew what I wanted.