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Twitter After Dark: Joe Maddon Trending With No Love In Sight

Twitter After Dark: Joe Maddon Trending With No Love In Sight

Departing the Windy City for the land where “COVID-19 is a hoax” known as Orange County, Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim skipper Joe Maddon evidently hasn’t the faintest clue as to making executive decisions that pave an eventual path to a World Series, let alone winning one.

Or, furthermore, perhaps in the minds of those who have superpowers of profound ignorance to begin with, Maddon may not have won a World Series ever.


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It turns out that in the seventh inning of the Mariners/Angels game on Wednesday night in Anaheim, Joe Maddon made a coaching boo-boo and decided to grant his heat-dealing starter in Andrew Heaney a few added innings of rest during a shortened season where attrition is going to be as hindering as COVID-19 postponements (or at least close enough, depending on the player in question).


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But in that process he surrendered four game-altering runs to the Mariners, which were the deciding factor in the Angels 10-7 loss on late Wednesday.

While I fully comprehend what it’s like to be a fan of a team whose manager is incompetent on the big stage time and again (I’m a Dodgers fan for God’s sake), the key words there are “on the big stage”, which the sixth game of a 60-game season is not exactly, despite the condensed regular season at hand.

Outside of the given stratosphere, a dimension where face-coverings during a pandemic are shamed and a pro championship hasn’t been achieved in 13 years (2007 Ducks), Joe Maddon is recognized as the manager who pulled the Lovable Losers out of the echelon of mediocrity by guiding the Cubs to their first World Series title after a 108-year deficit.

Yes, as if moving to Orange County leading up to a widespread pandemic wasn’t taking enough of an ‘L’, Maddon has wood-chipped his misfortunes across the baseball diamond and must have gone completely insane by making a crippling roster maneuver yet to be made by any other clubhouse leader during the first week of a regular season.