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Go to Shopify.com/MLB podcast to take your retail business to the next level today. Hey, it's Rob Bradford with Sabi Technologies, the world's hottest cloud storage provider recently asked themselves what good is storing data if you can't access what you need when you need it. Their answer? Wasabi Air is the first intelligent cloud storage with built-in AI auto-tagging capabilities. Now, everything you store with wasabi every game ever played, every movie ever produced can be served through quickly and easily. Go to wasabi.com to see how wasabi air can breathe new life into your content. To do what you guys do on a daily, when you have a team that is struck, it's easy to come to the ballpark when you're winning every night. You got nothing but glowing things to say, you can praise the team. But in your position now, you don't want to bury them too much because you know what they're going through. But at the same time, you need to be critical when you need to be critical or you'll lose the audience. So, I think probably the one good thing White Sox fans have to look forward to is you guys, the post game show, and you get to work with a guy by the name of Ozzie Guillen, who was a teammate of mine. He was your skipper when you won the World Series. He's almost like a Charles Barkley of the NBA. Give me a little insight. I played with him, you played for him, now you work with him on set. Two part question. How often do you guys reminisce about the 2005 season when you're going through something like this? And give me that what it's like with Ozzie on a daily basis. Yeah, Ozzie has definitely loosened the atmosphere up on the show. No question about it. Everybody who knows Ozzie, you know what you're going to get. He's going to speak his mind. He's going to tell you what he thinks. That's how he was as a manager. That's how he is now. You know where you stand. And you just don't know which direction he's going to go. You don't know what's going to come out of his mouth. But I'll tell you, Boonie, he's good TV. People tune in to see, to get his take, they respect his take, obviously, for what he accomplished in Chicago in '05. But it's been fun to get to know Ozzie. When I was playing for him back years ago, you know, I'm as a manager. You don't spend a lot of time around. And so, as I've gotten to know Ozzie, I've gained more of a respect for his baseball acumen. He has the ability to be telling some crazy story and you've heard him. He can be going on, but he has this uncanny ability to not miss anything that happens on the baseball field. He's incredibly bright when it comes to the game. I love hearing his takes. I love bouncing things off, going back and forth. But he's been around the game for so long that he's forgotten more than I've ever known about the game. So, it's been a pleasure going to the studio, talking ball with him, obviously reminiscing about what we accomplished in '05, hearing his take about this current team, what he would change, what he would do differently if he was managing this ball club. So, it's been a treat. I've enjoyed it. We do walk a fine line look. Rudy, I was no Hall of Famer. I know how hard the game is. It would be disingenuous for me to get in and bash anybody. I know the game's difficult. But you're right. We have a responsibility to give the fans what we believe, what we think. And I think that we've done a decent job in being fair and calling this white sock season how we have. It's not easy when this club is losing this amount of games. But to be honest with you, they give us so much to talk about. They make mistakes that we discuss and talk about on the post-game show. Sometimes those games are easier to do than a three-to-one loss to where they play a really clean ball game. But all in all, I'm grateful for the opportunity. I've had a lot of fun doing it. I enjoy showing up to the studio, getting into the city of Chicago. It keeps me around the game and still see fans talking about what we accomplished back in '05. So grateful for the opportunity. You're right. And Aussie, he's very astute when it comes to the X's and O's of baseball. Incredible. He shoots. He doesn't hold anything back, which a lot of guys and a lot of players appreciate that. And I'm talking on the field professional. It's not in an arrogant or flippant matter. It's as Aussie. And this is the way. And this is what he expects as a manager out of Magic playing for him. At the same time, getting to do what you do with him. He's kind of -- there's only a few people out there that kind of have that something about him, like I mentioned, Barkley. When Charles says something outrageous, and you know he's got to, the sentiment, the overwhelming sentiment amongst viewers is, "Ah, that's just Charles." You know, Aussie's kind of got that in fact. Where Aussie says something and you go, "Ah, that's Aussie being Aussie. It's Manny being Manny as a player. And if Scottie Post-Sednick says it, "It's wait a minute. What did you say?" We can't get away with that. We've got to shoot it a little more straight. And I'm not going to speak for Aussie. I'm not completely sure. I mean, I hear rumblings. You know, he'll tell me here or there if he wants to manage again. But I think baseball is missing a good character, a great baseball man. And I would love for him to be in the manager seat, heading some ball club. I'm interested to see how that old school way of thinking, how he could bridge the gap with this young generation and how the game has changed, really see if he can maneuver and lead a team to some wins. I don't know if that's going to happen. I'll let him answer that one, but it would be really, really fun to watch him at the helm again. Yeah. And I think it'd be great, you know, because I think what great managers do is they have the ability to adjust. And that doesn't mean to manage like in your generation. Oh, this is the way we did it. And it's my way or the highway. That's not how great managers do it. You have the ability to adjust. You have the ability to work with personalities, generations, because the kids today, they're different than we were coming up. Boonie, here's an example of that. 2004 was Aussie's first year managing the White Sox. That team led baseball in home runs, led all of baseball in home runs. He said, you know what, we've got a good offense. We've been matched to baseball out of the park. We've got good players, but we don't have a good team. So he went in this off season and said, Hey, I want to change what we do. They led the team in whole or led baseball in home runs. And he said, I want to change our offense. I want something a little different. They went out and brought some new pieces in. They brought me over from Milwaukee. He wanted some speed at the top of lineup. He wanted to kind of change things up. So went kind of completely blew up the team who led baseball in home runs that next year with this idea, Broaden, AJ Przezinski, Broaden, Tyrejito, Aguchi at second base, Broaden, Jermaine, Dye, into right field, mixed and matched. And then we look up, you know, and we're leading this central by a lot. So he understands the game and teams have to win in different ways. Again, like every, every team's different, where they're all going to do it in different ways, but he had this vision, looking at what he already had, he had an idea of we can bring in a couple of different pieces, maneuver a little bit, then I think we can be competitive. He was right.
