For John Henry is has been a frantic few days.
The Liverpool principal owner jetted to the UK with wife Linda Pizzuti Henry and Reds and Fenway Sports Group chairman Tom Werner to take in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, where Jurgen Klopp's men lifted their first piece of silverware of the season after a penalty shootout success over Chelsea following 120 goalless but pulsating minutes.
After the game the Henrys and Werner took part in the celebrations with Liverpool players and staff, the appearance the first Henry had made since the European Super League debacle and his video apology to Reds fans for his part in making Liverpool a part of it.
Much has gone on since then, and while Henry's part in the ESL plot may not have been forgotten, the work by FSG to engage with Liverpool fans to create a new Supporters Board to require fan consent for any such move in the future has helped heal some wounds, as has the success being delivered on the pitch by Klopp and his men, as well as the boost that the January arrival of Luis Diaz gave and the stronger way that Liverpool have emerged from the pandemic compared to some of their rivals.
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For Henry and FSG it was a good day. But no sooner had he arrived in London it was time to turn back and head across the Atlantic with the Liverpool principal owner heading back on a flight to the US in the hours after the win.
The Carabao Cup win was a respite for Henry and FSG with crucial talks in the US over just when the Major League Baseball season will start still rumbling on after nearly 90 days of an lockout that has seen owners and players at loggerheads.
Henry and FSG are, of course, owners of the Boston Red Sox MLB team, one of American baseball's biggest and most storied teams, one that is worth just shy of £3bn to FSG's sporting empire.
In his position as a member of Major League Baseball's labour policy committee, Henry has been a key part of talks between owners and the MLB players union (the MLBPA) that is seeking changes to their collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
The lockout began on December 2, the first work stoppage in the MLB for 26 years. It was hoped that discussions would reach an amicable conclusion before any impact on spring training and, even more important, any impact to the regular MLB season that is set to start at the end of March.
The stand off has arisen due to members of the MLBPA, wanting to get a greater share of the revenues that the MLB has been pulling in since the last CBA was agreed.
The CBA is there to look after the interests of players and ratify things from meal allowances and travel protocols to salary caps and how team revenues are shared.
Since the first CBA was introduced in Major League Baseball in 1968, there have been eight instances of labour disputes, some involving strike action that actually wiped out an entire post-season.
The revenues of the MLB, not including the severely COVID-19 impacted 2020 season, had risen from just over $9bn in 2016 to $10.4bn in 2019, something that is set to continue to rise once the sport navigates itself fully out of the mayhem caused by the pandemic.
The competitive balance tax (CBT) that exists in baseball hasn't kept pace with rising revenues, with the CBT, while used to try and maintain competitiveness among the league's teams, having also helped teams keep their payroll costs down.
The two sides have been meeting in at the Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida, where the majority of MLB teams base their spring training camps ahead of the new season, with players conducting their own workouts while the union and the MLB seek to find a resolution.
But with the MLB demanding that spring training last for four weeks and with little sign of any side blinking, a deadline of the close of play today looks set to be missed, something that will result in regular season games being cancelled and both teams and players losing money.
On Saturday the two parties were, according to the Boston Globe, some distance apart and a breakdown in talks was mooted before both came back to the table for more talks, although there is little hope that any deal will be struck prior to today's deadline.
Games cancelled would not be rearranged and players would not be paid for any games scrubbed from the schedule. Back in December, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred warned that any loss of games to the 2022 season would be "disastrous".
For FSG and the Red Sox, around £1.8m in revenues is accrued per home game. Opening Day is scheduled for March 31 between the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park.
For Henry and FSG, the while Liverpool is humming along rather nicely at present as they chase what would be a remarkable quadruple, back home in the US the landscape is far more challenging with the Red Sox, who were surpassed by the Reds in terms if their value in the FSG empire last year, with Liverpool holding a valuation of £3bn according to Forbes magazine.
