Joe Maddon
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In the back of a van.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting, man, because that all happened.
That started in the winter meetings after the 2015 season.
It might have been in San Diego.
I'm not sure where the winter meetings were at the time.
However, you remember the manager gaggle.
Everybody gets in front of the manager, and they start firing questions.
Now, we have not won anything since 1908.
And all of a sudden, now you're being picked to win the World Series, right?
How does that happen?
So I remember we're there, and I'm getting all this stuff fired at me, and I did not ruminate.
I didn't think about this at all.
But all of a sudden, I just said, we just need to embrace the target.
That's how it came out.
I was being pressed against the wall.
Hey, we just got to embrace the target.
And then from that, all this other stuff flowed out of that.
That's exactly what happened.
But I've always had the...
Mindset.