Joe Maddon

I mean, there's quality control and there's quality assurance.

Quality control meaning that you can react to a negative moment and try to fix it.

Quality assurance, you try to stay ahead of your problems.

I think, again, our coaches do a great job of stepping in front of our players and trying to avoid that.

And I'm not saying we're perfect.

We're going to make mistakes.

We're going to have different things pop up at different moments.

But you want to put out the fire as quickly as possible.

You confront it head on.

You don't let it fester.

Don't ever let anything fester, man.

Once you start doing that, it really can get ugly.

But the point is to try to stay ahead of your problems or your mistakes.

Well, you know, just you look at certain players that we've had this year, and UNL Escobar came into our camp as an example with a lot of different thoughts from the general public and people that had him before.

So for me, it was very important to get ahead of all of that conversationally, dealing with common friends that I have and that maybe UNL had.

And beyond that,

setting kind of a philosophy among the group in regards to how we're going to deal with and cohabitate with UNL on a daily basis.

So you don't necessarily listen to what everybody else says.

You have to make up your own opinion.

And you have to fit them into your culture the way you see is the right way to do it.