I know you want to turn the page on 2022 personally and team-wise, but I do want to delve into this

because, and we've talked about it throughout the year, that you guys were a huge favorite to repeat

as division champs. And I know there were injuries, but there were injuries the season before

and you won the division by 11 games. So as White Sox fans are listening to this, can you put your finger on the biggest

reason it went so south for you guys this year? We sucked. That's it. Welcome to episode

number 159 of the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of John Boy Media and presented to you by our friends over at Seat Geek, and we would like to welcome in one of our regulars around here, Lucas Gialito, the Chicago White Sox, who I believe just got done with his first off-season workout. Is that accurate?

That is accurate. Yes, sir.

Okay. So what we do in the end of October to get

ourselves ready for February of 23? I took a little bit of time off, a little decompression time after the

season. But oddly enough, despite the fact that I had a very poor year, I thought coming into the off season, I would like want nothing to do with baseball and like I wouldn't watch any playoffs and like I would take as much time as humanly possible before I really had to get back in the gym. But it didn't turn out that way.

I've watched like damn near every playoff game.

Wow.

And yeah, I just started today down at my new spot.

Shout out to Ryan Chapman.

Yeah, it's called Chapman Compound Chapman baseball compound or Chapman pitching compound.

I don't remember exactly what the name is.

But it's a great facility.

It's down in Irvine.

So, yeah, it's a little bit of a drive, but I get out there.

We set up, I actually, like right at the beginning of the offseason,

did some biomechanical stuff through some pitches, like with my shirt off, they got to get the readings, kind of see, like, you know, how everything's flowing. And now we have a very

comprehensive plan in place to, you know, get me back in the right

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