MESA, Ariz. – Lots of people feel entitled to their own truth these days, even when their version’s relationship to the facts is a strained one.
Take Joe Maddon, who continues to peddle the idea that it was as much his decision to cut ties with the Cubs after last season as it was theirs. That’s like a man who, after getting hit by a falling piano, uses his last few breaths to say it was his decision to die.
Maddon took it a step further in an interview with ESPN.com, which reported Tuesday that he “had come to the realization that he didn’t want to return to Chicago (in 2020) while the 2019 season was still ongoing, regardless of the outcome.