Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. I'm Jerry Foley, senior editor of the Giant Insider

newspaper. And with me as always is my co-host and the beat writer for the Giant Insider, Chris

Bizzignano. Chris, the last podcast, we dissected the Jerry Reese, Mark Ross era. And, you you know things aren't going to get much better for

this one unfortunately we're we're going to give our midseason grades and based on how the season

has gone this far uh yeah a lot of it's not going to be too many a's given out but no i got

it's going to be a lot of Cs though i can envision can envision that coming up, but not a lot of A's.

Yeah, we'll go through most of the starters, and then we'll take your Twitter questions.

Again, thanks for sending them in, guys, all the Twitter followers.

And please continue to subscribe on iTunes and Google Play and Stitcher and Spotify,

whatever the hell other platform we're on.

And subscribe, and if you can, give us the good ratings. We really appreciate it.

We've got a lot of great feedback on this. So we'll continue to do it as long as

as long as you guys like it. So one of the criticisms we've been getting lately,

or me in particular, Chris, is, you

Yeah, we're, you know, they say I'm a little easy on ownership.

And let me just give you the backstory to that and kind of as to why.

And so real quick, back in 99, that wasn't the first to do this and I'm not going to be the

last, but I wrote a letter to Wellington

Mera about, you know, the season ticket list is 30 years long. What can you do? Is there anything you

can do? And lo and behold, you got a letter back saying, I'll see what I can do about your ticket

situation. And then before the, before the 2001 season started.

So it was actually, let me back up, it was actually at the beginning of the 2000 season.

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