Best White Sox story from last night.
Brooks Boyer stopped by our table at dinner. I teased him about how bad Rikuu again.
He told me that last week at the owners meetings in NYC Rob Manfred approached him about how exciting the Sox are playing.
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Manfred asked Boyer if he could bring a few players by the league office next week when we are in NYC. He would love to meet them.
Boyer laughed and told him that he might regret that request. That our team was more of a Frat House than a team and if one guy comes.
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Did anyone else watch the Carlos Rodriguez segment on all access?
Guys, we have a front office. Getz created culture at every level.
The whole ORGANIZATION are fans of each other.
Oh and they are great baseball players too.
We are in for a ride.
My wife and I had a lengthy conversation about great bass players.
We spent 30 minutes naming bassist after bassist.
Then googled the greats.
Paul McCartney never came up in our chat. So we are clearly idiots.
#whitesox
A scoop for all of you.
Justin Ishbia and his 3 kids are sitting in front of me. He went to the store and bought them ALL Murakami jersey’s.
So I asked him if Mune was staying.
Response?
“Not leaving on my watch”.
I will tell you what analytics did to baseball.
The desire for power hitters erased decades of 3-1 contact hits in pursuit of a .300 average. Someone taught them that mathematically that a HR every 12 ABs is more certain to score a run than 4 singles.