The Good Man Show

Send us Fan Mail Father’s Day brings up the best memories and the sharpest grief, so we talk honestly about losing our dads and still feeling them in the way we coach and live. Baseball stays the thread through it all...

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<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>A random ballpark heckler can be funny, but youth baseball drama is not. We start with a White Sox Cubs weekend, field access, and what it’s like meeting names like Harold Baines, then we pivot...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We dedicate the show to Cookie and share why she meant so much to our baseball family, then we shift into the realities of coaching, competing, and growing through a long spring. We break down...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The fastest way to ruin a good team isn’t a bad swing, it’s a bad mindset. We start with a little real life color (blue jays, cardinals, and the kind of Monday mood that only baseball can...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Baseball doesn’t care about your lead, your label, or your ego and that’s why it’s such a good teacher. We start with some clubhouse-style banter (songs stuck in your head, Yankees rules, and...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>You can learn a lot about a team from what it does when the weather is awful and the calendar is messy. We start with pure life talk and food debates, then slide into the real question: why do...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Spring baseball brings cold weather, big emotions, and a fresh push to build better players inside the dome and outside in the elements. We talk youth development, new training tools, and the...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The best coaches talk about people before they talk about pitches. We sit down with Nazareth Academy legend and IHSA Hall of Famer Lee Milano alongside his son Dom Milano, the head baseball...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We sit down with IHSA Hall of Famer Don Erickson to trace a coaching life from a 23-year-old head coach to a field that now bears his name. Along the way we unpack culture, practice design...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We dig into how real team culture forms, why simple rules beat long manuals, and where leadership, assistants, and parent alignment make or break a season. A late drop-in from Ethan shows what...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We vent about rising prices from fruit to $40 cocktails, then get into coaching craft: how to handle umpires, when to take an ejection, and why culture and continuity beat raw talent. We close...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>A hungry cold open turns into one of our most grounded conversations about performance, pressure, and the habits that actually hold under stress. We welcome Eric Steensma—former college...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The Super Bowl fizzled, the commercials tried to save it, and we left asking a bigger question: what actually makes sports worth our time? We start with brutal honesty about a flat NFL season...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Stop letting youth rankings tell your story. We pull back the curtain on the travel baseball hype machine—how “algorithms” and anonymous lists chase clicks, not development—and lay out what...