Maddux, Dodgers in talks

[Laura]

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Hall of Fame lock Greg Maddux and the Dodgers are discussing a return, with the team suggesting a one-year deal and Maddux, who has 333 career wins, looking for a two-year contract. Maddux, 40, was the player that helped put the Dodgers into the playoffs when he was acquired from the Cubs at the trade deadline, and he loved it there. So the guess here is that they work it out, one way or the other. Friends thought Maddux was miserable enough with the Cubs that he might call it quits after 2006. That's obviously changed.

[Outshined_One]

Ouch.

[RichHillIsABeast]

Winners don't like losing.

 

We're talking about the guy who'd set up batters for later in the season by giving up home runs in blowout games. The "W" is the most important stat for Maddux.

 

Seeing a team full of crappy defenders blow winnable games, a manager making horrible strategic decisions, and one injury after another shouldn't make a guy excited about playing in Chicago.

 

Miserable is right. That anyone on that team was having fun blows my mind. Only losers have fun losing.

[Balsa]

Doesn't help with an unmotivated team and every time he makes a mistake it goes flying out....Sorry Maddog. Maybe you had more to do with being traded than we thought you did.

[Warpticon]

I suspect that his misery was this year and not so much the previous years. If it had been that bad, he could have called it quits before this season.

[Soriano12]

Gotta say I take a little offense to Maddux being so "miserable" as a Cub.

 

Mainly because we continued to hold the guy in such reverence(me included, I love to watch him pitch, even when his stuff declined, his mental approach was amazing).

 

How about his last home game with the Cubs with the standing ovation?

 

Such misery..sheesh.

[nilodnayr]

Gotta say I take a little offense to Maddux being so "miserable" as a Cub.

 

Mainly because we continued to hold the guy in such reverence(me included, I love to watch him pitch, even when his stuff declined, his mental approach was amazing).

 

How about his last home game with the Cubs with the standing ovation?

 

Such misery..sheesh.

 

He probably didnt mean the fans. He was the consumate professional and even until the end (and after it) he publically spoke quite fondly of Chicago and his time here. But for a guy who is so used to winning and being in an optimistic environment, being on the cubs in 2005 and 2006 couldn't have NOT been misearable. In fact, if anyone really wasn't miserable those two years I would being to question their passion and desire for the game.

[treebird]

miserable? sounds like a clubhouse cancer to me

[A New Era]

You guys got to remember, this is just a magazine quote. And as well, the writers own opinion. It also says only: His FRIENDS thought he was miserable with the Cubs. I read that as: His friends could tell he was unhappy, because he wanted to WIN with the Cubs. And we had a horrible season. Hell I'd be miserable too. We were ALL miserable. So wouldn't we take that as a compliment? He was miserable because he cared. That's how I take it. .

[Laura]

His own performance after the 5-0 start probably played into it. It's not surprising; he's not exactly known for taking bats to water coolers.

 

LA was a good landing spot for him and I wish him the best. He was a class act here. And I don't think he'd ever agree to come back and try again.

[Abe Frohman]

I don't blame Maddux if he was miserable playing for the Cubs in 06 - I was miserable watching the Cubs in 06. He came here to win, and his addition gave the Cubs the best pitching staff ON PAPER that I have ever seen.

 

Maddux came to Chicago to win a championship with a good team, not for the fans. I would think players don't go to teams because of the fans, they go to teams for the fit. Maddux didn't slight the fans, and if the 2006 Cubs didn't make us miserable - we need to check our pulses.

[goonys evil twin]

Maddux really was miserable for the Cubs this year. He was mediocre the past two.

[OBPMatters]

miserable? sounds like a clubhouse cancer to me

 

Yeah, but he does hustle. :lol:

[goonys evil twin]

miserable? sounds like a clubhouse cancer to me

 

Yeah, but he does hustle. :lol:

 

Seriously, he rarely throws as hard as he can. Bum!

[Laura]

Because it's Maddux's fault that Chicago media slams Aramis for not hustling.

 

HE PLANTED THE STORIES!