Ten years ago, the notion of becoming a general manager for a Minor League Baseball team seemed about as far-fetched as attending a World Series, as far as Matt Woak was concerned.

“I mean, you don’t just wake up one day and decide, ‘I want to become a minor-league GM’, that certainly wasn’t on my radar,” Woak said.

In fact, the Niles native had dreams of following in his dad’s footsteps and embarking on a career in radio. Fred Woak, known throughout the area as Fast Freddie, has been a mainstay on the local airwaves since the 1990s. Matt planned on “doing something in radio, music or entertainment.”

As for his World Series aspirations?

Woak is a self-proclaimed baseball fanatic. And while he has attended his share of MLB games over the years, he had never attended a postseason game –

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