Joe Maddon speaks with fans at Long Beach hospital

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Buster Olney of ESPN and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic/FOX reported earlier today that Maddon has accepted an invitation to interview for the Angels’ gig. He graduated from Le Moyne College in 1976 with a degree in physical education. After college, he began his managerial career with the Cleveland Indians, where he managed for three years before being hired by the Chicago Cubs in 1998. He led the Cubs to the National League Central title in his first year as manager but was dismissed at the end of the following season after failing to bring home a World Series title. He also wanted to be closer to his children's schools and their sports activities.

The team flies up north to play Sonoma State and rents vans to get to the game. They stop in Oakland to get some food and their vans are broken into and their valuables and team gear are stolen. Undeterred by the lack of police support, the team continued on to Sonoma State and wins their first regional title in the school’s history. This should have been a front page story in the sports section (if not the newspaper's front page) because of the resilience of the CSDH women in the face of adversity. I call on the Angels and the Dodgers to donate $25,000 each to help replace the team’s lost valuables and equipment. Maddon agreed to a three-year deal to become the Los Angeles Angels’ manager on Wednesday, reuniting the World Series-winning former manager of the Cubs with the organization where he spent the first three decades of his baseball career.

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It was an interesting week for the Bulls as reports of dysfunction started spreading like wildfire. A halftime locker-room incident was confirmed, but it was also downplayed by the “Big Three” of Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic. Now it’s about picking up the pieces and getting back to winning. The Angels also interviewed veteran managers John Farrell and Buck Showalter and Padres hitting coach Johnny Washington for the job, but Maddon was the choice. Maddon was expected to be a valued candidate for other managerial openings around the majors, but he was clearly eager for a reunion.

However, they were eliminated by the San Francisco Giants in five games. The journey back here began right before the end of 2019, when Joe and Jaye loaded up the RV and left his hometown of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. They celebrated New Year's Eve at a bed and breakfast in Roanoke, Virginia, then spent the next five days driving to Arizona, where the RV would sit idly until pitchers and catchers reported. From there, Maddon flew to Florida to host a charity event at his Tampa home, then flew to Southern California to begin preparing for the job that awaits. Maddon quickly garnered interest on the open market, just as Epstein predicted. The New York Mets, the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Diego Padres all checked in.

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But he also quickly came to admire Eppler for his drive and his transparency. He liked that he had an analytical mind but came up under the tutelage of respected scouts such as Gene Michael and Bill Livesey. Maddon sat alongside Eppler in Orange County to recruit Gerrit Cole and in Atlanta to recruit Zack Wheeler. Instead, the Angels signed Anthony Rendon, the best position player on the free-agent market, and tried to address a needy rotation on the margins, adding Julio Teheran and Dylan Bundy.

Mostly out of sensitivity to Anderson, who, understandably, didn't want to be in a public position where he was up for a job and wasn't chosen, given all he had done in his career. The Angels at the time were owned by the Walt Disney Co., and Tavares was head of Disney Sports Enterprises. Not only was he responsible for the ballclub, but Tavares had a corporate image to manage. Meanwhile, a year earlier, a future Hall of Fame manager named Sparky Anderson had just ended a 17-year run with the Detroit Tigers. Sparky was a fixture at Angel Stadium, then called Anaheim Stadium, and a local. His home in Thousand Oaks, California, was just 65 or so miles from Anaheim.

No-burn order extended through Tuesday for parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties

Yes, that sounds strange in the throes of a 12-game losing streak, one which dropped the Angels from the AL West lead to 8½ games out of first and 1½ games out of a wild card spot going into Tuesday night. And evidently, Manager Joe Maddon wasn’t expecting the news Tuesday morning when Minasian showed up at his doorstep to fire him. In the week ending Thursday, July 23, monitoring testing resulted in six positive tests for COVID-19, in numbers released by MLB and MLBPA. Joe Maddon’s managerial legacy is about as secure as they come. He’s the only person alive who managed the Cubs to a World Series win.

She is one of six children born to Eileen and Ted Sousoures, also parents of Jaye’s siblings, Louise, Christopher, Steven, Philip, and Theresa. Joe was still married when he met the woman who then became his second wife. Jaye Sousoures was 29, an accountant and mother of two sons, who was also married when she met Joe in 1995. They started dating until 2000, a year after his divorce from Betty Maddon. Betty Maddon born Betty Louise Stanton on January 1, 1953, in Quincy, California, where she attended Quincy High School; she later worked for Donna Tash, CNM; Betty resides in Mesa, Arizona. After two children together and 18 years of marriage, Joe and Betty Maddon, also known as Bette Maddon, got a divorce.

As previously mentioned, Joe Maddon has been married twice, before his 2008 nuptial with Jaye Sousoures, now Jye Maddon, Joe married Betty Maddon, mother of his two children Sarah and Joey. Joe’s two siblings are Carmine Irene Maddon, born on May 23, 1955, and Mark Anthony, born on September 21, 1958; they reside in Pennsylvania and St. Augustine, Florida, respectively. Mark is a commercial and industrial sales representative at Coast Pump Water Technologies. After four years of playing and almost forty years of coaching, Joe Maddon is a free agent. He loves to talk about the latest trends in tennis, golf, and basketball.

The event, which is usually held inside the stadium, was changed to a drive-through outside the ballpark due to the pandemic. But 250 local youth attended the event and received Angels memorabilia and holiday gifts courtesy of Magical Builders, a local charity for at-risk children. Maybe the tone in the clubhouse and dugout is about to get a little louder and more intense.

Albina Maddon was born in 1933, back in April 2015; while her son coached the Chicago Cubs, Mrs. Madden was invited to throw the first pitch before the game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Maddon & Sons Plumbing and Heating, conveniently located below his apartment on 11th Street, where his wife, two sons Joe, Mark, and daughter Carmine also lived. While Joe chose a career in sports, his brother Mark took over their father’s business; his sister Carmine Parlatore became a nurse, she worked as a nurse for over two decades before she decided to quit and opened an antique store on Broad Street.

Kevin also has a soft spot for football, especially the German Bundesliga. Joseph John Maddon Jr. is the manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Major League Baseball . He previously worked as a manager for the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago Cubs. He had beers with old scouts and shared dinner with old coaches, usually in places that still felt so familiar. He drove past old neighborhoods and made several stops at the old ballpark and felt wistful through most of it. "There was just, you can say, philosophical differences," Maddon continued, referencing his relationship with Epstein.

But first, Maddon needed to see whether a return to the Angels made sense. He dined at Mastro's in Newport Beach with team owner Arte Moreno, president John Carpino and Eppler days after the Angels had fired manager Brad Ausmus, then signed a three-year, $12 million contract shortly thereafter. But it was talking to patients and their families from MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach via Zoom on Friday that meant the most to him. Maddon, speaking from his home in Pennsylvania with a 1978 Angels pennant and cutouts of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe behind him, spent about 30 minutes answering questions and playing fun games with patients.

A federal investigation is ongoing; the Skaggs family has threatened litigation; and a dark cloud continues to hover over the franchise. We’ll get to the question of whether this was a hasty decision in a bit. But there seems to have been a difference of opinion in how heavily to lean into analytics, and if this sounds familiar in Anaheim it should.

Her hubby is the Los Angeles Angels manager; he previously was a manager for the Chicago Cubs and the Tampa Bay Rays. The problems didn’t deter Maddon from reuniting with the Angels, where he inherits a roster with Trout as its centerpiece. The probable three-time AL MVP is signed to a 12-year, $426.5 million contract that should keep him in Anaheim for the bulk of his career.