{"id":48764,"date":"2022-06-13T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/joe-maddon-got-a-mohawk-before-los-angeles-angels-firing\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:55:59","slug":"joe-maddon-got-a-mohawk-before-los-angeles-angels-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/joe-maddon-got-a-mohawk-before-los-angeles-angels-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Maddon got a mohawk before Los Angeles Angels firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Maddon hoped to reinvigorate his struggling Los Angeles Angels team by debuting a wild new look &#8211; only to be fired before any of his players could see it. <\/p>\n<p>Maddon, who was axed as the Angels&#8217; manager last week amid a 12-game losing streak, dealt with the hairy situation by shaving off some of his own locks for a mohawk, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjzero\/status\/1536130359020212224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1536130359020212224%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_1_10%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fmlb%2Fnews%2Fjoe-maddon-reportedly-got-a-mohawk-to-awaken-the-team-right-before-the-angels-fired-him%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESPN&#8217;s Tim Kurkijan<\/a>.  The 68-year-old skipper opted for the new &#8216;do in an effort to bring smiles to the down-trodden clubhouse and &#8220;awaken the team.&#8221;  Unfortunately for Maddon, he was terminated before he could test the style out.<\/p>\n<p>Maddon&#8217;s new look was just one of the few experiments the Angels resorted to in hopes of breaking a franchise-worst 14-game skid.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Maddon reportedly got a mohawk before he was fired as the Angels&#8217; general manager.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/joe-maddon-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Joe Maddon was axed as the Angels' manager in June 2022 amid the team's 12-game losing streak.\" class=\"wp-image-22633439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/joe-maddon-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/joe-maddon-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/joe-maddon-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Joe Maddon was axed as the Angels&#8217; manager in June 2022 amid the team&#8217;s 12-game losing streak.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During Wednesday&#8217;s home game versus the Boston Red Sox, Angels hitters changed their walk-up songs to a collection of hits from Nickelback, of all bands.  The valiant effort produced little success, however, as Los Angeles lost, 1-0. <\/p>\n<p>The Angels <em>did<\/em> snap their losing streak Thursday with a 5-2 win over the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Maddon hoped to reinvigorate his struggling Los Angeles Angels team by debuting a wild new look &#8211; only to be fired before any of his players could see it. Maddon, who was axed as the Angels&#8217; manager last week amid a 12-game losing streak, dealt with the hairy situation by shaving off some of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/joe-maddon-got-a-mohawk-before-los-angeles-angels-firing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Maddon got a mohawk before Los Angeles Angels firing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,18525,3186,236,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/joe-maddon.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}