Forget Moneyball: Surging Rays Use Maddonball To Put Heat On Imploding Red Sox
http://tinyurl.com/3jok26t
這篇文章描述了光芒教頭Joe Maddon如何帶領光芒在最後一個月衝擊外卡
靠的就是Maddonball的管理哲學
擷取裡面一段文章：
Let's go back a month. The Rays manager makes a decision. Joe Maddon tells
his team to stop coming to the ballpark so early. Stop taking extra batting
practice. That cherished notion of being the first to the stadium every day?
Rubbish. Take your girlfriend to a movie instead.
回到一個月前，Joe Maddon決定告訴球員，不必那麼早到球場，不必做多餘的打擊練習
還抱有每天第一個到球場的念頭？別鬧了！帶女朋友去看場電影吧！
Crazy to an outsider, sure. But that's Maddonball, where the leader tries to
make the game as comfortable as possible for his players. That means theme
road trips – Dress like a hockey player! Dress like a grunge band! Dress in
all white! That means no dress code at all. That means no rules at all.
當然，外人聽起來很荒謬，不過，這就是Maddonball！這位教頭希望能讓球賽盡其所能讓
手下的球員感到舒適。不管你要穿的像打曲棍球的、玩Band的、全白的都沒關係，隨便你
怎麼穿，也就是完全沒有規定！
"He really doesn't have any rules for us," says team ace David Price. "He
treats us as grown men."
Price表示：他真的沒給我們任何限制，他把我們當成年人看待。
"Rules can't take the place of character," reads one sign in the Rays'
clubhouse.
"Discipline yourself so no one else has to," reads a second.
"Integrity has no need of rules," reads a third.
You get the idea.
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不管你贊不贊同這個作法，不過Maddon也真的成功把光芒帶進季後賽，現在就看Maddon
可以帶領光芒走到哪裡了！