Former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Jeff Samardzija once insisted “you can always get a good nap in during the Sox game.”

It was meant as a compliment to Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, though Samardzija later had to explain himself to the Sox broadcaster.

As baseball turns the first corner in its speeded-up season this Memorial Day weekend, White Sox and Cubs fans turn to their porches and patios to soak in warm summerlike breezes and perhaps sneak in a quick nap with the ballgame as mere backdrop.

No apologies necessary. And to help get to your REM cycle, here are three topics for a lazy Sunday.

Commissioner Rob Manfred appeared out of the blue in Milwaukee last week and suggested Wisconsin politicians need to get their act together and pony up for stadium improvements at the ballpark formerly known as Miller Park.

The other option, naturally left unsaid, was the Brewers pulling up stakes and moving, as the Oakland A’s currently are doing with their relocation to Las Vegas.

According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Manfred told reporters lack of funding to keep up the A’s ballpark led to “a decline in the attendance which had an impact on the quality of the product that the team could afford to put on the field.”

Bad management decisions also contributed to the A’s decline, but that would spoil MLB’s narrative. Anyway, the hint was taken and nearly $450 million worth of stadium improvements will be debated in Milwaukee over the next several months, with the threat of relocation in the air.

If the Brewers need a perfect landing spot that’s convenient for Milwaukee fans and home to a passionate base clamoring for a team that competes on an annual basis, the organization can relocate to the South Side of Chicago, where a state-funded ballpark already exists and is only in use half of the 162-game season.

The Brewers could play at home when the White Sox are on the road and vice versa, making Chicago a three-team town with two daily home games half the year.

Would the Sox outdraw the Brewers in a shared stadium scenario? Given a choice between Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, would Reinsdorf get any votes?

Many Brewers home games also would go head-to-head against Cubs games, making the division rivals true competitors for fans’ entertainment dollars, thus forcing the Cubs to cater more to fans than their corporate sponsors.

This won’t happen, of course. The Brewers are going nowhere and will continue operating in Milwaukee, where they belong, for decades to come. Manfred can’t approve a relocation of a franchise as successful as the Brewers without someone filing a lawsuit.

As for Milwaukee’s soon-to-be free agent manager Craig Counsell … that’s another story.

When the popular HBO series “Succession” ends its run Sunday night, millions will tune in to find out who succeeds the patriarch of the multibillion corporation.

That includes a great many Cubs fans who watch the show and see a number of parallels between the main characters and the four siblings of the family that owns their favorite baseball team.

Kendall Roy, the brooding, introspective center of the Roy family with a dark secret, would have to be the TV version of Tom Ricketts, the Cubs chairman and primary decision-maker on all business matters.

Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts, the former Cubs co-owner turned politician, would slip easily into the role of Connor Roy, the half brother who is not involved in the family business and failed miserably in his attempt to become president. Pete has not run for president … yet.

Board member Laura Ricketts, the only woman of the four siblings and an outspoken progressive in a predominantly conservative family, easily fits the part of Siobhan “Shiv” Roy, the only woman of the Roy siblings. Laura was instrumental in the Cubs’ White House visit in 2017 in the final days of the Obama administration. Shiv currently is battling for power with her two scheming brothers, while Laura is second in command to Tom in the Cubs hierarchy, with no apparent plans of taking over the operation from her brother.

Board member Todd Ricketts, the youngest Ricketts brother who served as chief fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, compares with Roman, the youngest Roy sibling. This season Roman cozied up to the newly elected, right wing president and complained that his brother, Kendall, always got his way as kids. Coincidentally, Deadspin once published an email from Todd to his father and brother Pete, complaining about Tom getting too much credit for the Cubs: “The reason I am so sensitive to this is that even today I feel as though my input and ideas are disregarded among our family, just as they were when we were kids.”

It’s not exactly life imitating art, but close enough for fans of the Cubs and Roys.

A TV series on the goings-on of the Ricketts family could be must-see TV in Chicago. The real question is whether it would be considered a comedy or a drama.

Back on May 29, 1987, I was sent by the Tribune to cover a “Fairness in Sports Leadership” conference at Operation PUSH headquarters, where Rev. Jesse Jackson threatened a national boycott of baseball starting on the Fourth of July if owners didn’t come up with a plan to increase the numbers of women and minorities in management positions.

The furor over the lack of minority hiring began that April when former Los Angeles Dodgers Vice President Al Campanis said on ABCs “Nightline” that Black people did not have “the necessities” to become managers and general managers.

Jackson told the Operation PUSH audience that baseball owners had exactly one month to “implement a plan to bring about fairness” or “definitive action will be taken.” MLB later named Black sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards to the staff of Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and hired a consulting firm owned by former Secretary of the Army Cliff Alexander to work with all 26 teams on implementing an affirmative action plan.

Jackson called off the proposed boycott on June 30, and a major league executive told the Tribune negotiations between Jackson and Ueberroth’s office led to “more progress in the last four months than in the 40 previous years.”

It’s been 36 years since the threat of a baseball boycott over its hiring practices. MLB currently has only one Black head of baseball operations — White Sox executive vice president Ken Williams — and only two Black managers: Houston Astros’ Dusty Baker and Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dave Roberts. Kim Ng of the Miami Marlins is the first and only woman general manager, hired in 2020.

Is that really progress?