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Joe Maddon: “Fortune Favors the Bald”

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Quality Inn Tampa Fairgrounds

The Tampa Bay Rays are away from their home, Tropicana Field as they will be starting a series against the Detroit Tigers tomorrow night. They look to stay hot as they have started their now traditional summer run and have won 7 of their last 8. Their attitude, upbeat and confident with belief that they can beat any team, any day, any place.
This attitude comes from their manager, their leader, Joe Maddon. Coach Maddon has been with the Tampa Bay Rays since 2006 and has been the life force of the culture of Tampa Bay baseball. In 2008 Joe Maddon lead Tampa Bay to its first 90+ win season, in fact it was the first time Tampa Bay had finished the season with more than 70 wins. Joe Maddon had lead them not only to the franchise’s first playoff appearance but in doing so the Tampa Bay Rays won the very strong American League East, besting both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. The Rays lead the AL in wins with 97 and finished above .500 for the first time in franchise history. Joe Maddon then took this team that had a payroll of that was less than half of the average Major League Baseball payroll all the way to the World Series. Maddon won MLB Manager of the Year that year.

This past March Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon lead his team to battle, the battle to find a cure to childhood cancer by teaming up with the Pediatric Cancer Foundation and their ut for a Cure campaign

Joe Maddon is more than an amazing baseball coach though, he is an amazing person. Us here at the Quality Inn & Suites Tampa Fairgrounds have had the honor of being able to watch him and see what he puts back into the Tampa Bay area. He is active in the community and gives to those who need.

This past March Joe Maddon and the Tampa Bay Rays teamed up with the Pediatric Cancer Foundation to help raise money for research and treatment. Joe Maddon asked that all of his players participate in shaving their heads for charity. They did, all of them, and then the executive office did, and then to everyone’s surprise principal owner Stuart Sternberg shaved his head. They did this because they support their city but more than that it was because Coach Maddon had asked them to.

Fortune Favors the Bald

The Tampa Bay Rays have a Sign in the clubhouse that reads, “Fortune Favors the Bold”. This is a slogan Joe Maddon brought with him know that if the Tampa Bay Rays where ever going to be winner they would need to take chances no other team would, do things above and beyond, to give everything you have to achieve a goal. To further get the word out of why every Tampa Bay Ray had shaved their head the adapted that slogan to read, “Fortune Favors the BALD“.
Us here at the Quality Inn & Suites Tampa Fairgrounds certainly hope that is true.
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