Joe Maddon

Another pioneer.

Whatever it took, man.

I'm trying to think of the first time, the celebration.

I was at the Rays, and I can't remember the genesis of it, but I do remember the genesis of the disco ball.

I told Westy, he was the clubhouse guy, I said, Westy, we need some disco balls in here.

So like the game would be over, we'd walk and we'd win, and all of a sudden you'd be like a nightclub.

It was like the warm-up lounge in Hazelden.

That's what I wanted it to look like.

So we walk in there, and all this stuff's going on.

We had Chris Rock one night at the head of the line.

We won, we won.

He's yelling as we walk in the locker room with the disco balls going.

so that was the first thing and then it just worked from there it morphed into a saint paulie girl sign it morphed into instruments loni brought in like a saxophone that he was horrible at playing but it was great and it just kept evolving james loni james yeah and then we turned ours into yeah then we took it to another level we had an actual celebration yeah we had like she walked up off the dugout but it never got it never got no it doesn't get old celebrating achievement never gets old that's right winning that's and the best part about that is

That was the problem I had with the Angels in the middle to late 90s.

Remember, we lost a huge lead to the Mariners in 96.

We were up by 13 or 14 games.

I was five or six.

Like August 6th or 7th.

I went in the bus five or six.

You were born on August 8th or 9th.