Joe Maddon

It's a real blue-collar group, man.

That's not gone away.

They just need one of those good runs, and they're going to have it.

I don't want to use the word worried.

But I think they want to see a little bit more consistency in regards to the victories, et cetera.

We used to get in a hole like that.

You know whether we have that run in us or not just by how well we're playing, how the guys look, what their attitude is when they come to the clubhouse.

Is that in there or is it not in there?

I believe with them it is.

Coming off the season they did last year, I've had teams that sometimes it takes a while to get rolling the next year.

It just does, especially with that group that has really not happened to them before like it did last year.

So I'm not giving up on them.

Too much going on there in a good way.

But they're probably going to have like a 12 out of 15 or a 16 out of 20 run in them coming up at some point.

I think it can.

I mean, was Anthony Rizzo a superstar?

Did you consider him when he was with the Cubs?

In the playoffs, he was.

Yeah.

Anthony really used to help us out by hitting leadoff once in a while, really got us going.