Mike Maddux’s face features Chicago’s winning formula

November 9, 2011   ·   0 Comments

Mike Maddux’s face features Chicago’s winning formula

Texas Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux was at Wrigley Field on Wednesday to interview for the Chicago Cubs‘ open skipper job. He’s a good candidate, too, as he’s helped turn around an underachieving organization in Arlington, knows a thing or two about throwing a baseball and could put an end to the that annoying Friendly Confines sing-along after each win.

But perhaps most importantly, he shares an important quality with three of the past four coaches to win titles in Chicago. Run a comb through the photos below to find it:

Yup, that’s a championship-caliber ‘stache that Maddux wears and it’s easy to see him replacing Jim Essian as the Cubs rep on Chicago’s mustachioed Mount Rushmore.

We realize that there’s a few issues here, of course. Ozzie Guillen won the World Series with a full-on goatee. Dusty Baker also often wore a mustache in his times with the Cubs and it didn’t win him squat (though it’s worth noting that he was never 100 percent into the ‘stache and sometimes wandered in the world of the goatee — which, we might add, has the word ‘goat’ in it).

Regardless, if Theo, Jed and Co. can’t find a difference between Maddux and Pete Mackanin, Dale Sveum, Sandy Alomar Jr. and anyone else they interview, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go with what all the good Grabowskis are wearing as they watch from home.

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