ST. LOUIS — The most talked-about manager in baseball — for all the wrong reasons — walked down the steps into the visitors’ dugout Friday at Busch Stadium.
With a smile on his face and buoyancy in his voice, he regarded the far-larger-than-usual horde of reporters waiting for him — practically enough to fill an expanded September roster. A really, truly, comically terrible one.
They weren’t here to talk about the Cardinals’ attempt to close out an NL Central title.
They were here to close the book on the Cubs. More specifically, to close the book on Joe Maddon.