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David Haugh: Joe Maddon is Chicago's most colorful and confident manager

Baseball history always will laud manager Joe Maddon for changing the culture with the Cubs.

Now Maddon supplies it.

Creating a bizarre backdrop for the start of spring training in Mesa, Ariz., Maddon revealed his theme for the 2018 season Wednesday by displaying two pieces of art he commissioned back home in Florida.

And you thought the Dodgers were the artful ones to watch in the National League.

While the rest of baseball debated Arrieta, Darvish or Cobb over the winter, Maddon apparently researched

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