i am pleased to have joe maddon at the table for the first time. thank you for coming. >> thank you for inviting me. i'm honored to be here, sir. i mean that sincerely. >> rose: thank you. so how is the team doing this year? >> opened an all. we have prolonged winning and losing streaks. we have been caught our stride yet but we will. coming off a world series in the last two years, the previous year we went to the nlc, lost to the mets and this year go to the world series, so it's been two long years, and i've really been conscious and aware of the mental state of our guys. the word "rest is important for me. it's important to reach our peak by august or september. it's not where reeled like to be now but not bad either. >> rose: what was your goal after coming off the world series when you had to face 2017. you knew you wanted to repeat andhead a core of a great team. >> to be uncomfortable. i did not want us to be complacent in any way. that was my first thought. i also wanted to play off the authentic component of our guys. authenticity. i thou

joe maddon: i want to defend the everyday major league player.e have to understand how hard it is to play 160 games annually with day games after night games, hot weather, cold weather, you are ill, something is hurting, that is not easy to do. when you are able to play and participate on this level and play well for a long span of time, i have so much respect for that person. the average player is 3-4 years, especially in the nfl with the injury rates. ♪ charlie: you don't know this about me, but i went to the red sox game for spring training. >> they are down in ft. myers now. charlie: i met ted williams and ted williams and i became friends. he was a minor league hitting coach and we had this meeting. he was a minor league hitting coach and i was doing a program that started at 2:00 that ended at 6:00 and he would get up to go fishing. i was his prime time and he knew that and he would invite me out. we would go fishing. it was amazing. he had this whole sense of how much he cared about the techniques of the game and he wrote a wonderful look

are in second place in the national league and i am pleased to have joe maddon at the table. to be here anded i mean that sincerely. doing?: how is the team >> on and off. we are in winning and losing streaks and we have not caught our stride, but we will. in the previous year, we went to the nlcs. long years and we have been conscious of the mental state of our guys. it is best to reach our peak by august or september. right now is not where we want to be, but it is not bad. coming off of the world series, you knew you wanted to repeat. >> i wanted to be uncomfortable. i did not want to be complacent and i wanted to play off of the authentic component of our guys. authenticity is a strong part of our players. fans are attracted to our players because of the authenticity and i really want to focus on defense. aerybody loves home runs, but big part of the success last year was defense. i am trying to attack these different concepts. complacent and rely on the authentic component of our nature. beyond that, it is about managing personalities and the human element. we had just p

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. >> that's -- >> joe maddon -- >> the poor cubs? in the 7th inning and he's talking to a starter and saying you got a couple more innings in you, and the starter says, yeah. it's getting good. he knows you're lying. and you can see that was madden. if madden could have taken -- >> that was spooky. >> if madden could have taken the ball away from trump right there, he would have. >> just give him the pat on the butt, send him back. >> call for pence. >> he had a hostage audience forced to smile. >> and also he said we're going to do great, great things in health care. >> he does this. he does. i'm surprised he didn't say big surprise coming in two weeks. >> it's the apprentice. >> welcome back to "morning joe." it's thursday, june 29th and that's your president. >> where america's the loser. >> we're on america's the biggest loser. that's not funny. >> we understand you don't think anything is funny these days? cht. >> i really don't. we totally disagree. you have hope. i think we're in big trouble. >> i don't punctuate the end of ev