Oh, look, it’s Joe Maddon giving a press conference.
Joe Maddon has a new, lived-in look ... and we need to roast it
The Cubs’ manager showed off his travel day attire, and the best part is imagining Bruce Bochy wearing the same thing.
Nothing unusual about that. Just a manager giving a press conference. Thanks for visiting SB Nation.
I mean, I suppose if you look at that picture closely, Joe Maddon looks like...
- Drew Carey if he grew up in Santa Monica.
- A divorced dad showing up to his ex-wife’s house to pick up his kids for the first time.
- A theater professor who wouldn’t get high with his students, but wouldn’t say anything when they smelled a little festive.
- Someone who saw American Beauty twice in the theaters.
- A guy who’s been to eight different SXSW, but is thinking about skipping the next one because, eh, you know.
- That guy who spoke in front of the whole school at your assembly about the mistakes he used to make.
- An elite Yelper who gets more “cool” votes for his reviews than “useful,” though it’s pretty close.
- The dean of Springfield University when Homer goes back to college.
- The guy sighing loudly behind me as I flip through records at a garage sale.
- The CEO of the company that created the Whosit app, which allows real-time virtual conversations between people in your selected buddy cloud.
- Your friend’s dad, who used to smoke a pack a day and quit in 1991, but wouldn’t mind bumming one right now, as long as you’re all bullshitting.
- Dale. From across the street. Hey, what’s up, Dale.*
* Note: Dale kind of bugs you
- The main character from Up if he were also Bono’s uncle.
- The old guy at the club.
Note that the Bono one was my favorite, but I stole it from Whitney McIntosh in Slack. There are more comparisons out there:
Joe Maddon looks like a lot of things. A baseball manager isn’t one of them. But the good news is he gives us fodder. I love fodder.
