Joe Maddon is doing everything he can to get the Cubs to a championship...including growing a beard.
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In Tuesday's Tampa Bay Times, beat writer Marc Topkin caught up with the former Rays manager and the story ended with this awesome quote from Maddon:
Which brings us back to the semblance of a beard.
Shortly into the season, Maddon said someone told him that all coaches and managers who won championships in Chicago, at least somewhat recently, had mustaches — Mike Ditka with the Bears, Phil Jackson with the Bulls, Ozzie Guillen with the White Sox and Joel Quenneville with the Blackhawks (over the Lightning).
"So since facial hair is the key, I thought I would take it the next level," Maddon said. "I'm trying. I've always been challenged. But I'm not giving up on it."
Hey, hard to argue with that.