CHICAGO -- A day after Cubs manager Joe Maddon delivered an impassioned monologue in which he described the Cardinals as a "vigilante group," implied that their manager was akin to TV mobster Tony Soprano and declared that his club won't "start stuff but will stop stuff," Mike Matheny added no fuel to whatever embers may have been remaining.
"I really don't," Matheny said, when asked if he had a reaction to Maddon's comments. "I get it, that it's a hot topic of conversation. But for us, we realize that almost every day we have somebody saying something about us, and that's just part of the business.