Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon commented that he wished the Cubs would have gone out for beers while out on the road or after their games, instead of sitting on their phones. Maddon was sensing that his unbreakable clan had broken up.
In his recent 80+ minute end-of-season presser, Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein talked about how a new manager is going to have to help the current team foster a new identity. Epstein’s idea of identity is turning the cast of current individual characters into ones that represent teamwork.