Continuing our 600th podcast celebration, Brett Ballantini had the Sharing Sox duo of Leigh and Will Allan on, for the very first time together, the mothership. We attempted to make zero references to the 2025 White Sox, but failed. Still, this is mostly contemporary White Sox-free:

• Revisiting the first episode, Sept. 9, 2020, and acknowledging that the first on our Megaphone player is No. 8, that October. The first seven Sharing Sox podcasts were with Sports Illustrated and not (yet) on our player


• The first "true" podcast, then, No. 8, was on Oct. 14, 2020, and it concerned ... the managerial search (that ended with the hiring of Tony La Russa). The duo was shocked and horrified in remembrance of that time, and that innocence


• Does the duo regret landing on the White Sox as their team to root for?


• What drove the father-son duo to start the podcast in the first place?


• Favorite guests on the show


• How hard is it to continue doing this, both 143 programs and yes, still covering a team with narrow hopes of something better any time soon?


• The highlights of being able to do this podcast with a family member

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