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PROBLEM: President Donald Trump confirmed that he spoke with  Roy Moore  in the wake of  his  Senate primary victory in Alabama on Tuesday.
“Spoke to  Roy Moore  of Alabama last night for the first time ” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. “Sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He will help to #MAGA!”
Spoke to  Roy Moore  of Alabama last night for the first time. Sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. He will help to #MAGA! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27  2017
According to  Breitbart News reporter Matthew Boyle  Trump called Judge Roy Moore  and spoke with  him  on the phone for about five minutes.
 Moore  beat the establishment candidate Senator Luther Strange  who was endorsed by Trump by nearly 10 points.
 The president  also congratulated  Moore  on Twitter for  his  election victory on Tuesday.
Congratulations to  Roy Moore  on  his  Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race.  Roy   WIN in Dec! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27  2017
“Congratulations to  Roy Moore  on  his  Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race ” he wrote. “ Roy   WIN in Dec!”

SOLUTION: Roy Moore

PROBLEM: Here is your lifeline  Washington Nationals. We have gone from theory to reality in 24 hours.  Joe Girardi  no longer manages the New York Yankees. There is one potential managerial candidate who represents an obvious upgrade from Dusty Baker  both in the near term and long range.  He  is  Joseph Elliott Girardi .
Go get  him .
If the Nationals â and by âthe Nationalsâ here  we are speaking of the Lerner family  which owns the team â even are going to consider  Girardi   they have to go in with two things wide open: their eyes and their wallet.
Baker  whom they didnât invite back  felt  he  was woefully underpaid at $2 million annually  and the main reason  he  is no longer here anymore is because  his  contract was only for two years. Those two years expired  the Lerners had no further financial commitment  there was some ham-handedness in both public relations and game management in the division series against the Cubs  and so  he âs gone.
[ Girardi  made sense for the Nats even before the Yankees let  him  go]
 Girardi  isnât coming here for any two years and $4 million.  His  last contract with the Yankees  the one that expired following this year  was for twice that â four years and $16 million. Thereâs your starting point. If you want  him   Mr. Lerner  be prepared to value the position of manager more than you have at any point in the past. Take a number youâre comfortable with â and triple it.
Joe Maddon hadnât won a World Series when he agreed to a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. Could  Girardi  ask for such a sum? Sure.
We donât yet know that  Girardi  will require that or that the Nationals will even inquire about  Girardi âs needs. But logic tells you General Manager Mike Rizzo  who did not return a message Thursday  has to reach out. Follow that logic further  and Rizzo has the toughest sell job of  his  career to  his  own bosses.
If Rizzo calls Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and gets a favorable report on  Girardi  â and given their long run together  why wouldnât  he ? â and the rest of Rizzoâs reporting reveals no red flags  then  he  must present a case to ownership that what they have before them is an opportunity. Forget the money it will cost. Consider it found money.
 Girardi âs side is important in this  too. On Thursday  in the hours after the Yankees announced they would not bring  him  back  a person close to the (now former) manager said the situation was too âfresh â and we couldnât yet analyze whether  Girardi  would want to move on to the Nationals â or anywhere else â immediately.
But we do know a bit more about  Girardi âs state of mind than we did at the end of the American League Championship Series  when  he  said  he  would have to consult with  his  family â  his  wife and three children live in South Florida â before deciding whether  he  could be all-in as a manager again.
On Thursday   Girardi  issued a statement that thanked just about everybody in the Yankee organization. But it opened with this: âWith a heavy heart  I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back.â
Sounds like someone who was ready to reload for another run.  He  just needed to be asked.
One reasonable question  Girardi  would have â and one that  once a manager is in place  could hang over the entire 2018 season â is: Who would I be working for? Not next year but down the line. Rizzoâs contract runs only through 2018. He and his front office built the team that won four division titles in six years and is poised to contend again. If he convinces  Girardi  to come here and convinces the Lerners to pay for him  wouldnât another extension be in line for the general manager?
A final piece: At 53   Girardi  is too young to really be into evaluating  his  âlegacy.â But here is a list of managers who have won World Series titles with two franchises: Sparky Anderson  who did it in Cincinnati and Detroit  and Tony La Russa  who did it in Oakland and St. Louis. Short list. Everyone on it is in the Hall of Fame.
If  Girardi  wins another World Series   he  joins that group. Could  he  do it in Washington? The Nationals have stated thatâs the only goal that matters. A manager who has done it is now available.

SOLUTION: Joe Girardi

PROBLEM: When  Lidia Bastianich  tells you to eat the pasta  you should eat the pasta.
Nearly 20 years ago  thanks to her award-winning PBS shows   Bastianich  became a food star and introduced countless Americans to real Italian cooking  which even then was dominated by ubiquitous red sauce and pasta dishes.  She  credits Julia Child for  her  TV break. After coming to one of  Bastianich âs restaurant  Child âwanted me to teach  her  how to make risotto and then  she  had me on  her  show. The producer then said âyouâre pretty good. How about a show of your own?â And thatâs how it evolved â  she  remembers. Child âencouraged me.  She  said âLidia  you do for Italian cuisine what I do for French.â We remained friends.â
In real life   Bastianich  has a no-nonsense but warm demeanor  which  she  exudes on  her  show. Countless hours spent watching  her  on TV gave me the false sense that we were old friends and at times during our meal  as  she  doted on me  it felt like I had found my long-lost nonna.
âA lot of adults tell me âI watched [the show] since I was a kid with grandma.â You know what that tells me? Itâs been a few years â  she  jokes. âIt pleases me because food is all about bringing people together and relating to each other â  she  adds more seriously.
But even after decades of cooking on TV  running a restaurant empire and helping to start the wildly popular chain of Eataly stores   she  insists that  she  still enjoys cooking at home. In fact   she  just published  her  eleventh book  Lidiaâs Celebrate Like an Italian  which  she  co-wrote with  her  daughter  Tanya Bastianich Manuali  and includes 220 recipes for everything from cocktails to soup to dessert. âI havenât invented one of them â  she  admits. âI modified some. Iâve changed a little bit here and there.â
If anything   she âs too modest and was very concerned about making the recipes as approachable as possible. âI take these recipes and simplify them as much as I can â  she  says  since  she  actually wants the reader to learn them and enjoy using them. While in  her  restaurants  the emphasis is the opposite  itâs âto create that moment that the guest will not be able to do at home.â Most of the dishes at Del Posto certainly would fit into that category. Speaking of which  when I try to get  her  to order more food for  herself   in true grandmother fashion   she  dodges my suggestions and insists âI can talk while you eat.â
While I enjoy a delicious heirloom tomato salad  the aforementioned pasta and perfectly cooked swordfish fillets   she  shares with me  her  familyâs fascinating story of coming to America.  She  was born in Istria  which before World War II was part of Italy  but afterwards became part of communist Yugoslavia.  Her  family fled to Italy and lived in a refugee camp for two years before emigrating to America when  she  was 12. Itâs an experience that  she  thinks a lot about today as the country debates its policies about letting in immigrants. âMost of us are immigrants except for the Indians â  she  says. And for  her  that struggle is personal and one that is wrapped up with being a chef. âFood is all about the story of a people through the ages â  she  reminds me.
When  her  family got to America  she  was in for a surprise. âThe Italian food I didnât recognize it when we first came here â  she  says since it was so different than what  she  had grown up eating.  She  did  however  immediately fall in love with boxed cake mixes that  she  would whip up each night. Catholic Relief Services put them up in a hotel for three weeks when they first arrived and then  her  father found a job and a small apartment in Queens that they moved into.
 She âs reticent to tell me more  since  she âs working on a memoir that should be out next year  which will go into greater detail about  her  familyâs story and  her  rise to culinary stardom. While Iâm a bit disappointed   Bastianich  promises weâll meet next year to discuss  it . I canât wait.

SOLUTION:
Lidia Bastianich