Joe Girardi might not be the considered by most as the favorite to land the Cubs manager job, but the former Yankees manager is the early leader in sheer interview time spent with team officials – if not the leader in time management.
Girardi, the former Cubs catcher and Northwestern star, took Wednesday’s off day in his Rays-Astros division series broadcast schedule to fly into Chicago and head straight from the airport to the Cubs offices, where he spent the next eight hours.
Rushing to a waiting SUV after leaving team president Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer in the lobby, Girardi paused for just a moment when asked how he thought the interview went.