Joe Maddon isn't going to get the special 280-character tweets at this rate.
“Social media doesn't count at all. Twitter doesn't count at all,” the Cubs manager said after he was prompted to respond to his second-guessers on social media on Monday. “The moment I start worrying about that, I really need to retire.”
But when it comes to questions about opting for John Lackey to face the top of the Dodgers' mighty batting order (which includes Justin Turner, who Maddon himself said “hits anybody”) with the game on the line, the criticism cannot be reduced to some small corner of Twitter randos, or Cubs Facebook page commenters, or even people who still send letters to Wrigley Field.