Mike Burke Cumberland Times-News When Joe Maddon first came onto the scene in November 2005, after spending three decades scouting, coaching and managing in the minor leagues, the unconventional manager of the team then known as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, reminded me of Drew Carey — pudgy-faced with red hair, an off-the-wall number on his jersey for a big-league manager, 70, and, of course, what is now his trademark horn-rimmed glasses. Three years later, at the helm of a young, talented athletic team that was built through its farm system and has put together the second-best regular-season record in baseball in 2008, Maddon has taken on more of a sage air. Winning will do that for you, and Maddon’s appearance now strikes less the pudgy comic Carey, but more the dignified yet crusty newspaper publisher Matt Drayton, the...
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