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• Dangerous Dodgers – just another house of Cards like Mets early 2023 or a force to be reckoned with
• Shohei Ohtani – 2-way player – 2 Tommy John’s – 10-year contract – how will he compare to Aaron Judge results with the Yankees
• Ohtani Confidence – compared to Tiger Woods
• RaysUp – “St. Pete Rays” – and the new “Trop” in St. Petersburg not in Tampa with Bucs & Lightning
• Will Rays fans return with the new stadium design, surrounded by night life and appeal to youth
• 2024 Rays changes
• Evan Longoria, Kevin Kiermaier decisions
• Every other front office would Love to have the Ray’s front office/analytics & Neander
• The Rays team refuses to tank
• 99 games won season and Rays fans still disappointed after 13 game winning streak
• Dodgers spent $200 million more than the Tampa Bay Rays and won 1 more game in the 2023 season
• Luke Raley v Pallacios
• Rays fans need a World Series Championship title to satisfy Tampa Bay fans  
• Fans of the past look back to Carl Crawford, Ben Zobrist, David Price  & What If’s
• Charlie Morton (Ground Chuck) & d’Arnaud loss made a difference in success of team
• The gain of Ryan Pepiot definitely outweighs the loss of Tyler Glasnow. Tyler may have difficulty with change-up
• Rays Pitching potential rotation looking good with 4 strong pitchers Jeffrey Springs returns with Shane Baz, Zach Eflin and the new addition of Ryan Pepiot
• Drew Rasmussen is a special talent who may pitch less innings 
• Look for a stronger 2024 for Taj Bradley. Taj is not afraid to pitch inside
• Mark’s fascination with Pete Fairbanks as he leaps at Rays Fan Fest
• Addition of strong bat with Johnny DeLuca will compensate for loss of Manuel Margot & Luke Raley
• Alex Verdugo challenging team mate similar to Wander Franco for team spirit
• Mat wants better Rays Catching – let’s bring in a mature catcher again – one that will win the World Series a Jonah Heim or better yet – William Contreras
• William Contreras, catcher from the Milwaukee Brewers could be the missing element that could bring the Rays to a World Series championship
• Contreras would be a daring move that would elevate the 2024 
• Mat Germain’s proposed 2024 lineup
• Rays Shortstops? – Junior Caminero, Carson Williams, 
• Taylor Walls, shortstop – Hip issue that pulled his defensive ability down
• 2024 Rays fans should feel great about the roster changes 
• Keep up to date with Mat’s tweets on X.com @Mat_Germain_

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Thanksgiving Day Parade with Tommy & Jimmy
Icons of the game get their just due as Brandon  & Mark award the 5th annual Goofy Gobbler awards.
Baseball and Sports Idols beware
History of the Goofy Gobbler @SportsBlitzPod
2 ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Men bring the Awards

Grandpa Politics - Colin Cowherd (Casual Fan)
o Cowherd felt the Angels could get “five first-round picks, your best
prospect, your third-best prospect and two solid starters.”
o “3 best prospects, three No. 1 picks. Would you move him?” That was
suitable for McIntyre. And as he began to explain that he would take that deal,
Cowherd got a notice.
o “It says here you can’t trade draft picks,” Cowherd said.
o To be fair to him, he did say after he is a casual baseball fan

Druncle Award- The Herd: with Colin Cowherd
o Bears are out of the running?

You Brought Them to Dinner? Award  - Travis Kelce / Taylor Swift
o An unexpected guest brought to the dinner I don’t need to see her after every catch Travis Kelce has
o I love love, but I don’t care who you’re with
o Rays should provide Travis Kelce Sky Box to increase attendance

All American - Matthew Perry
o Best known for Chandler from Friends
o Invested in the Field of Dreams site to help them
build youth fields by the movie site in the corn field
o Battled addiction and transformed his home into a rehab facility many years ago

Dry Turkey Award - Tampa Bay Rays
o Christmas Vacation - Steaming Dry Bird
o Face Plant in the Playoffs
o 33 inning scoreless streak - 2nd longest in post-season history
o "UnCool" New Stadium built in the Tropicana Parking Lot
o Northern transplants to Florida already have a team

Deflated Souffle Dessert Award - Yankees or Mets
o Airy Dessert falls with a bit of disturbance
o Yankees expectatins abysmal season
o Aaron Judge injury halted his season & drew energy away
o Met's payroll compared to results
o What can a $343,000,000 payroll buy, Mr. Cohen?

Turkey of the year - The Oakland?  A’s
o Disrespect your fans
o Trade top players
o Reverse Boycott
o Golden Knights comparisons
o Tropicana Casino their new home?
o Sorry Fans, You don't own the team
o Welfare for Owners - they are not being good stewards
o Comparison to Rays - Erik Neander, Chaim Bloom & Kim Ng
o David Knight story - give them the keys to the car

Brandon Noe & Mark wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving

Special Thanks to Brandon Noe @SportsBlitzPod for bringing us the 2023 Goofy Gobbler Awards
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Erin Carlson spins Baseball Women stories from the movie of "A League of Their Own". How Penny Marshall earned the respect of the AAGPBL, Stories of the All-American Players

• Tomboy & Director Penny Marshall moves from dancer to performing arts to Laverne & Shirley
• Transition from Laverne to director
• From BIG to Baseball 
• Tom Hanks interprets Penny’s Bronx to the cast
• Baseball Drill for 6 weeks with coaches in LA
• Actresses who brought Athletic Talent to the field – Rosie O’Donnel, Lori Petty & Freddie Simpson
• All The Way Mae - Madonna could not hit, throw but was trainable per Joe Russo
• Debra Winger, originally cast as Dottie, leaves the team with $3 million
• Enter Geena Davis – untapped athletic ability & a steely game face
• 14:4 – Loop?
• Lori Petty & Kit brings it to the field but was concerned when Winger left
• Lori Petty & Geena Davis chemistry was strong on
• AAGPBL story is resurrected through the son of Helen Callaghan Candaele , the Ted Williams of Baseball
• Cooperstown 1988 - The players were suspicious of what others may do with their story
• Penny Marshall was kicked out of a AAGPBL banquet
• Fortuitous Steakhouse dinner with AAGPBL players, Fort Wayne Daisies, Faye Dancer & Pepper Paire Davis
• Mandel & Ganz – 2 great writers selected for the film
• Giant Rolodex, Birthday parties with Carrie Fisher and “Bobby D” De Niro 
• Marge & Helen – sisters from Vancouver leave the factories behind in 1944 and joined the Minneapolis Millerettes, later with the Daisies– template for Dottie and Kit
• Helen was the “Ted Williams of Women’s Baseball”  Marge had to struggle to keep up with Helen
• Kelly Candaele’s documentary on mother Helen & Aunt Marge
• Penny Marshall & David Anspaugh 
• Casting, location selection & costume design put together by David Anspaugh
• Anspaugh, Hoosiers director, had a different sense of funny 
• Studio replaces Anspaugh – heartbroken he had been a fan of the Fort Worth Daisies as a young man.
• Jimmie Foxx – Lois Youngens & other AAGPBL players had a different view of him than Tom Hanks portrayal of Jimmie Doogan.
• Marshall honored AAGPBL wishes to stop a Doogan & Dottie intimacy scene
• Geena Davis leveling the playing field with Institute on Gender Media https://seejane.org/ 
• Davis found her athletic muscle playing Dottie
• “A Little League of Their Own”
• Penny Marshall - plan to develop a biopic on Effa Manley
• Health issues kept Penny from doing more
• Whatever happened to the “Pitch” series
• Who would you cast today in A League of Their Own today
• Gal Gadot as Dottie – the new Geena Davis
• Taylor Swift as Kit or Dottie – Travis Kelcie as an extra

Erin Carlson’s book – No Crying in Baseball click here can be found on Amazon 

American Women’s Baseball Classic – members of the original AAGPBL teams will be there along with 60 of the top female baseball players in the world.

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• 2 Wild Card Teams, Rangers & Diamondbacks, in World Series
• Recalling childhood of sneaking in a transistor radio into the classroom to listen to the game
• Robin throws his hat into the ring for RedSox GM
• Teams that will not build their payroll including Miami – Kim Ng & Derek Jeter departures
• Could Kim Ng displace Brian Cashman at the Yankees
• Baseball grind taking its toll on Max Scherzer
• Do Bye teams lose some momentum?
• Young guys that figure it out are coming up in the World Series, Brandon Pfaadt
• Diamondbacks & Rangers pitchers
• When and who you put on the mound
• Analytics can only carry a team so far
• Kirby ready to come out after 6 innings
• Robin Fuson's Spitball
• Learning how to let hitters get themselves out 
• Movement, Location & Variety – each pitch should have 2 different things
• Greg Maddux – the template for pitching
• Throwing hard & avoiding snap back to avoid injuries
• Rays a farm team for the rest of the league
• The eyes of Nate Eovaldi & Pete Fairbanks
• Rehabbing Matt Young, Jim Corsi, Guillermo Willie Hernandez in Oakland
• Getting a pitcher’s mindset ready and facing the fear of injury
• Joe McIlvaine, Scout & later GM, gave Robin an objective view on his pitching with tape on his sleeve 
• Watching Tanyon Sturtze develop with a “I will fight you every step of the way attitude”
• World Series projections from beginning of regular season
• National Media did not see the Diamondbacks coming. – just ask Torey Lovullo
• Motivation between Rangers & Astros after Hit By Pitch with Anoldis Garcia
• Was the hit intentional – What would Dusty say – with “money on the table”
• Pitcher sometimes have to brush back and/or hit a player to send a message
• Robin hits Brooks Jacoby and gets $200 league fine as benches empty 
• Chattanooga fans passed the hat & pay for Robin’s fine
• Anoldis Garcia - would never see Nolan Ryan or Tom Seaver flip a bat
• Should we let baseball players have a scrum like hockey players 
•  Mexican League, Dominican Republic, Venezuelan & Caracas Winter League 
• Caribbean World Series – MLB players were there for their countryman, Dave Concepcion, Tony Pena, Howard Johnson
• World Baseball Classic – Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout
• Pitch Clock – baseball was not meant to be a game to be rushed. The joy of taking a moment to relish each play.
• Double plays – Ground balls & Charlie Morton 
• Off-speed sliders are a wonderful thing
• Manager moves – Dusty Baker, Bob Melvin & more. Will we see Joe Maddon or Buck Showalter pop up
• MLB Winter Meetings – informal conversations & making deals. Meeting friends like Tommy Lasorda, Chito Rodriguez
• Decision time - work for free as an intern or become a judge
•  United Baseball draft – Another league like LIV is for golf – “Money Talks”
•   Tommy Lasorda story 
• Lovin the 7 game ALCS & NLCS Series
• More tales from Robin on Twitter @slider_sinker

 All-American Women’s Baseball Tournament link

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Sue (Parsons) Zipay of Rockford Peaches & Lois Youngens – Fort Wayne Daisies & South Bend Blue Sox share their stories from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

• The “League of their Own based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• 25% Hollywood Hyperbole
• Risqué "League of Their Own"
• Jimmy Foxx, managed the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952, never missed a game, never drank on the bus, always tipped his hat, a true gentleman 
• No Crying in Baseball
• Right Field or Catching – Smarter than the Boys
• 110 games a season – sometimes 7 days a week with a couple of double headers
• AAGPBL pitchers often pitched 9 innings a game and sometimes pitched 2 days back to back
• Sue talks about pitching and 2nd base and how AAGPBL was like a family
• Fans – Daisy Fan Club – provided a picnic for players once a year
• After the game the long ride home & then rise early the next morning for practice
• Young, Healthy & Loved the Game
• Long 1 piece dress uniform made it difficult to catch grounder
• Strawberries from June to Thanksgiving – sliding in feet first
• Madonna slides into first with her Material Girl’s bosom first 
• Fort Wayne Daisies tryouts in Spring Training & $20 check
• Senior Prom, Graduation & became a Fort Wayne Daisy all in 1 week
• AAGPBL Scouts & Tryouts
• Serendipity with a visit to a cousin in Fort Wayne
• Dating Farmer Boy fans & have a good cookout
• Dottie Greene former player becomes a scout & chaperone
• Chaperones found host families for lodging at private homes
• Rivalry continues between Lois & Sue
• Shu-Shu Senaida Wirth – Tampa Ybor native with the South Bend Blue Sox
• Canada, Cuba & Japan have professional women’s baseball teams
  • 1948 AAGPBL Spring Training in Cuba
  • Dodgers – dem bums had to fend for themselves in Cuba
  • 4 or 5 Cuban women came on board with the AAGPBL
  • Isabel Alvarez & Mickey Perez pitchers from Cuba
• Jimmie Foxx’s daughter was a Bat Girl for the Fort Wayne 
• Lois synergy with Jean Faut the G.O.A.T. had great control most of the time
• Lois traded to South Bend
• Baseball math – field dimensions & ball measurements
• Faut had a good sequence of pitches that gave her the perfect game
• The Weavers - Jean & Jo were 2 of the best batters in the League 
• Life after the League – other sports the players performed - Professional bowlers &  tennis players
• , Sue now owns & runs Englewood Tennis Club
• “League of Their Own” Penny Marshall & Sue’s knee injury
• Canada is number 1 in Girl’s / Women’s Baseball
• Why is it that there has not been a Professional Women’s Baseball League
• More than half of the USA Team Championship members will be at the tournament.
• Women's Baseball can begin with a new league 
• Building a new “League of Their Own” now in Sarasota

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Mat & Mark look at the PostSeason to see who is advancing. Did the byes make teams rusty,  Carlos Correa's Journey,Women in Sports, the AWB & All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

• Wild Card – all 4-game series completed in 2 games
• The Orioles, Dodgers & Atlanta Braves – these 3 teams with byes were defeated in their first divisional series. Only Astros won their first game
• Diamondbacks handled Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw, in 1 inning this ace gave up 6 hits, 1 walk, 4 Extra Base Hits & 6 Runs
• Dodgers now have lost first 2 games of the series as the competition will continue at the Diamondbacks home
• Team issues with Roster depth 
• D-backs - forgotten in the west, very strong outfield
• Phillies are a tough team – Braves will be missing Charlie Morton
• Similarities between D-backs & Rangers. 
• Baseball is a long series game to see the true talent of the team
• Need less games in regular season -  MLB should expand teams in postseason games
• Minnesota Carlos Correa versus Astros - who would you pull for
• Carlos long journey from leaving Twins, signing with Mets & Giants, Padres were interested and then Carlos returns to the Twins. 
• Pablo Lopez trade to Twins is making a critical difference
• Lou Schiff questions postseason value of Arraez when considering the Lopez trade
• Ridiculous nature of Tampa Bay Rays postseason strategies, 2 innings Pete Fairbanks & sitting Josh Lowe
• Yankees in the past would burn through relievers
• Brandon Hyde & Torey Lovullo our choices for Manager of the Year
• Lou Piniella – Winning is everything
• Postseason does not mean a vacation not a time to relax and awaiting “participation trophies”
• Drawing a player performance competitive line in the sand for the team roster
• PostSeason Announcing – it’s disrespectful to the game with national broadcasters who don’t know the teams or the facts
• Mark gets out of postseason funk working with the AAGPBL
• Celebrating “A League of Their Own” Baseball Classic with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League tournament in Sarasota
• Canadian Women Baseball has been growing in popularity
• In Western Province of Nova Scotia & the popularity of women’s baseball and soccer continue to grow
• Opportunity to play both softball & baseball in mixed leagues has made for a better athlete
• Movement to make women’s professional leagues supported like men’s league
• Women are fighting hard for equal pay for their work & revenue that their sport is generating
• Martine Sinclair’s impact on soccer revenue
• Multi-purpose stadium should be the wave of including multiple men’s & women’s sports
• Mat to the rescue – what will Rays be doing in the offseason
• Would Shohei Ohtani take a short-term deal with the Tampa Bay Rays to rebuild his value as arm heals
• Optimism with Arizona Fall League ,Perth Heat in the ABL & Dominican Republic Winter League
• Mat is getting ready to reshape the Rays roster

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If the season ended today . . . and it did

• Fan Exhaustion 
• Marlins did not return to NY 
• Gabe Kaplan – too rough for San Francisco Giants  - perfect fit for the Angels
• Steve Cohen, Mets, says goodbye to Buck Showalter
• Dusty Baker was able to meld a fractured Astros team
• Tony Francona strength - listens & cares for his players
• Big Papi meets Tony Francona
• Miguel Cabrera retirement – would Miggy have continued his career in Miami sans Loria
• Joey Votto ejection statement
• World Series walk begins with Wild Card best 2 out of 3
• 3 game competition gives a better sense of a teams’ measure
• Mat would like a postseason without byes for any teams 
• Tampa Bay Rays, Never know what you are going to have at the end of the series
• Rays will face weaker pitching with Rangers & Orioles
• Yandy Diaz wins batting average title
• No local Bally Sports in postseason
• Difficulty with national broadcasters doing such a poor job on the Rays – John Smoltz
• MLB beats their chest on increased viewership, however continue blackouts
• MLB building revenue base through Repetition, Frequency, Gambling
• Entertainment shows for Baseball in 7th inning stretch?
• Tyler Glasnow & Taylor Swift arm in arm promo for the Rays?
• Cardinals, Adam Wainwright concerts
• Saint of Second Chances – Mike Veeck – Disco Demo in Chicago & fireworks in the Trop
• PostSeason Rays, Tapia, Aranda, Basabe & Junior Caminero
• Rays Roster Luke Raley & Jose Siri may return.  Who will leave
• Junior Caminero AA rookie with veteran performance 
• Basabe will probably not make it to postseason
• Mat measures the impact of not facing Blue Jays, righties Kevin Gausman, Jose Berrios & Chris Bassitt 
• Junior Caminero will bring a lot to the plate facing Rangers lefties
• Kevin Cash & Wild Card roster
• Marlins – how will they fare against the Phillies
• Lou Schiff’s @BaseballandLaw, Marlins team is building a lot of experience
• Kudos to Kim Ng for her constructive calls for the Marlins
• Mat & Mark face off on National League champion choices Atlanta Braves or Milwaukee Brewers
• 3 PM First Pitch starts to Wild Card games 
• MLB should consider NFL model of broadcasting most games simultaneously? 
• How many viewers does MLB lose while fans are at work during broadcast?
• Mark reminiscences about days of old with newspaper box scores & radio as the only source to track the game
• Mat likes Balanced schedule but needs consideration of extending playoffs & possibly cutting regular season by 3 games. Also scheduling should consider varying local weather impact throughout the season.
• Mat’s proposed New MLB format would include:
• MLB with 32 teams & 5 game playoff & cut regular season to 159 teams
• What does a 32-team format look like
• Create 4 regional divisions to 8 teams per region
• Set number of teams to 2 top per region that enter into the playoffs
• Junior Caminero from AA skips AAA leaps to Major League Tampa Bay Rays
• Caminero is mature & methodical with a veteran attitude
• Rays Bullpen pitching plan, Taj Bradley – a strategy reflects Dodger method with Julio Urias
• Taj is a cool & fierce competitor

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• Roller Coaster Road of a ride for the Blue Jays this season
• Wild Card in reach
• Toronto took 2 of 3 against Tampa Bay Rays in St. Pete
• Alek Manoah – what gives – shut down for the year with arm injury
• Manoah and minor-league drama – arrogance & confidence
• Rays & Jays 3 game review – tied with 5 wins each for the season
• New Format – Divisional Rivals face one another only 13 games a year
• Enjoy facing all 29 other teams each year
• Red Sox & Yankees rivalry – sitting at positions 4 & 5 in the AL East
• George Springer – in-park home run with 2 men on base
• Springer’s defense in Right Field has been effective and defeats ageism naysayers
• How do Blue Jay fans like Kevin Kiermaier & his card “theft” with Alejandro Kirk
• Brett bought into Kiermaier early when he saw him jump about 8 feet up by the outfield wall to catch an out
• Blue Haired Old Ladies & their Kiermaier fantasy
• Bo Bichette & Vladimer Guerrero Junior
• Brandon Belt
• Yankees will have to eat some Cash(man) until they can release some of the older players with large contracts
• What will 2024 look like for the Yanks
• Baltimore is not going away – can’t wait for Jackson Holliday to come up
• Aaron Boone Ejection – is this his last season
• Orioles future is bright
• Brett Gard on The Cardy Show talks baseball & hockey 

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• MLB Rundown 
• Long stretch of games for O’s – facing Astros, Red Sox, Nationals & Guardians
• AL West strength who will prevail into Wild Card spot – Astros, Mariners & Rangers 
• NL East – Atlanta Braves rule across entire AL
• Compare Braves & Brewers  pretty evenly matched in starting pitching 
• BaseballBiz visit to Camden Yards – Avid & loud fans with a Sold Out crowd of 43,000 plus fans
• Mat’s visit to Camden Yards, sat in the vanishing left field seats w/Blue Jays fans
• Finding moments & milestones with Yandy Diaz
• Select a Rays jersey with player longevity with the Rays - Isaac Paredes 
• Yandy & Isaak quietly build a great body of baseball work
• Game 2 – Zach Eflin was on fire against the Orioles Eflin, the most important & steady confident player of the Rays. Cy Young award talk
• Game 3 with Orioles – Tyler’s pitching was off and Rays lost
• Grayson Rodriguez - pitched a career-high 8 scoreless innings on 7 strikeouts & 5 hits (O's Game Notes) ‘he fanned Curtis Mead on a 100.1 mph fastball in the 2nd inning, the 2nd fastest strikeout pitch by an O’s starter in the Statcast era …His 117 strikeouts this season are the 10th-most by an O’s rookie at 23 years old
• No Yankees & Red Sox this postseason 
• Grayson Rodriguez & Shane McClanahan comparisons on style and health
• Brandon Lowe – (O's Game Notes) slugged his 21st home run of the season in the first inning; marked the 105th homer of his career, surpassing Carl Crawford for sole possession of 6thplace on the Rays all-time home run list…Also marked his 202nd career extra-base hit, tying him w/Fred McGriff for eighth-most in team history
• Game 4 – 11 inning loss for the Rays 
•  Why did Kevin Cash use Pete Fairbanks for 2 innings 
• Rays face Angels next
• Shohei Ohtani 
• Ray Bourque & the Boston Bruins path could that be the same for Mike Trout
• Angels need an Alex Anthopoulos style GM to rebuild their organization – perhaps Chaim Bloom
• Pirates could be a model for a new Angels path
• Will Rays keep a .600 record for the remaining season?
• Teams with a Bye may go cold with time off at the beginning of postseason
• The Stadium of the Future – Virtual Ballpark – with live - on-field avatars
• AppleTV & MLB –  a camera shot from the seats with the Canadian broadcast 
• Rays’ Tristan Gray (O's Game Notes) Gray made his 1st MLB start, 1st career hit, and launched his first career home run in the 8th inning

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Nick Murawski of Good Guys Talk Back, GGTB takes a good look at the 
Chicago White Sox' tough Season & 2024 South Side expectations

• Off-Season Camelback Kool-Aid optimism - Different Management, Different Coaches, (Different Results?)
• Chicago White Sox – Opening Day lineup almost identical to current lineup, Luis Robert Jr, Tim Anderson, Andrew Benintendi, Eloy Jimenez, Yoan Moncado, Andrew Vaughn, Yasmani Grandal, Oscar Solas, Lenyn Sosa
• Luis Robert Jr is staying healthy and delivering great performances 
• Teams fight for good health – Aaron Judge w Yankees ,  Mike Trout w Angels
• ‘Good Enough’ Jerry Reinsdorf 
• Ticket Holders question whether to buy 2024 season tickets . 
• Corner Store, Mom & Pop shop mentality in the Front Office is disappointing
• Do White Sox have the right ingredients to bake a great cake?
• At 87 years of age it may be difficult to be open to new ideas. 
• New GM, Chris Getz lacks credentials & experience to be a GM in Majors
• Getz reaching out to other organizations for secrets of success
• Successor for the White Sox & Chicago Bulls 87-year-old owner, Jerry Reinsdorf?
• Heirs could potentially Keep the Bulls & Sell the White Sox
• First time manager, Pedro Grifol has been experiencing difficulty
• 20/20 hindsight on 2023 manager options: Bruce Bochy, Miguel Cairo, Tony La Russa, A. J. Pierzynski, Ozzie Guillén
• Bill Parcells managing philosophy should apply to White Sox manager – “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.”
• Getz instrumental in bringing Grifol to White Sox. Both had worked with Kansas City Royals
• New White Sox Consultant, Tony La Russa August meeting
• This White Sox team will NOT perform for Pedro Grifol 
• Where will Lucas Giolito be once his Free Agency begins
• Future potential from Astros’ Kendall Graveman & Lenyn Sosa – 2nd Baseman of the future
• Will White Sox be competitive in 2024
• Multi-generational fans look beyond the bad years
• Good Guys Talk Back podcast hosts, Nick & Pat Hester are also live each week on their GGTB YouTube channel 

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