Joe Maddon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's not about when I did.
It's like when the guys know you're good.
Everybody was contributing.
Everybody.
But our defense got tight.
Our defense, I mean, with Addison there and Starling over there, everything changed defensively, which really was big at that point.
Yeah, I think for me, if I had a โ because I'm answering the question based on the fact that I remember driving a Clark.
That was the other Clark.
I remember, because we're talking right now, I'm sitting in that little manager's office and Starling's sitting right over there, right?
And I'm explaining things to him.
You know, I'm sure he hated it, right?
But he never was disrespectful.
He listened all the way through.
And this is really the best part about that for me as a manager because I think that's the way it should be.
It was just me.
It wasn't like a front office dude with me or anything like that.
It wasn't like I wasn't being supported or the conversation didn't include other voices.
It was just me and him.
That's valuable.
As it should be.