Rarely will you find a man in professional sports more honest than Joe Maddon. And I don’t mean in the cathartic post-game-rant sense either. Plenty of coaches and managers have taken the podium after a particularly cringe-worth performance and told the world how bad their team was. But when things are going great? That’s when they fall back on tired axioms and boring tropes, content to conceal much of the trust lest it somehow reveal their weakness.
That’s not something you worry about much with Maddon, who is already discussing the Cubs’ status as the “It” team for 2016.