Former Cubs manager Joe Maddon and his wife Jaye bought a full-page ad in the sports section of Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, thanking Cubs fans “for your passion, for your open hearts and minds, for forging everlasting relationships, and for sharing your beautiful city with Jaye and me.”
The ad includes several of Maddon’s famous sayings coined during his five years as Cubs manager, including “Never permitting the pressure to exceed the pleasure” and “Do simple better,” mantras that we hope Cubs players will remember for generations to come. That’s the legacy Maddon has left in Chicago, a complete change in clubhouse culture that helped the team throw off a century of failure and win the World Series.