Joe Maddon

And you know what the main theme of that is?

The more freedom given, the greater respect and discipline returned.

As a professional, I'm not going to do that with fifth graders.

OK, I'm not going to let a bunch of fifth graders run the asylum.

But if you're a professional, you're

you know, 20 plus year old, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, old enough to die in a war, right?

And I'm going to tell you everything, how to act on a daily basis.

No, the more freedom I give you, the greater respect I'm going to get coming back towards me.

And the more freedom I give you, the more you're going to actually listen to me.

We have three rules.

At least weigh what I have to say.

Sure.

Right?

Because I never, I never, I could almost use the word never, created like an edict

uh you got to do this we got to do that the closest i came to that you don't remember this was 2015. in uh we did cut off some relays yeah yeah i hated it and i stopped everything i loved it i remember starling castro i remember all the dudes i remember javi just going through the motions we started doing relay catches that's right you realize we didn't screw up a freaking way to put money on it relay cash that's right because you can't take it too serious we know how to do the fundamentals exactly you had three rules

Absolutely.

Choose right.

It's not hard.

I've been using that since like 19, whatever, when I managed...

The Idaho Falls Angels and the Salem Angels in 1981, 82, and 83.