Distant Replay: The Bo Jackson Game

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of Distant Replay, where the crew looks back at a classic White Sox game, Chuck Garfien, Ryan McGuffey and Chris Kamka discuss the Bo Jackson game on September 27, 1993. It was the night when Jackson hit a towering 3-run homer to clinch the AL West Division title against the Seattle Mariners. The crew is joined by former White Sox pitcher Kirk McCaskill who recorded the last four outs for the save and shares his memories of Jackson's home run, that 1993 team and what made this game so special.(2:40) - Where were you when Bo Jackson hit the home run?(7:10) - Bo Jackson's impact on sports(11:44) - Jackson's incredible home run(19:10) - Jerry Reinsdorf and Mike Ditka were in a commercial together?(23:20) - Kirk McCaskill joins the podcast(31:25) - Bo Jackson thought the home run was an easy out(44:30) - McCaskill closes the game and the Sox go on to win the 1993 division title(53:00) - Were the White Sox cheated of a championship run due to the lockout?(1:03:09) - Chuck's closing remarks

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hard Tarring Drive into left field.
0:07.0	Rattarang, Matt looks up, you can put it in the ball!
0:11.0	Yeah!
0:12.0	A three-run Horne-hoff!
0:17.0	Bar-Bow Jackson in the socks lead it, free to nothing. It was a dramatic home It was a dramatic home run that took forever to come down by a two-sport athlete making a comeback with an artificial hip.
0:35.9	Hey everyone, this is Chuck Arfine.
0:37.5	It is the White Sox Talk podcast.
0:39.2	Brought to you by WinTrust.
0:41.1	Bo Jackson's electrifying three-run homer.
0:44.5	Lynched the division for the White Sox that night
0:46.9	and is at the center of the latest edition of Distant Replay
0:52.2	on the White Sox Talk podcast.
0:54.4	Sox versus Mariners September 27, 1993.
0:58.7	A game started by a young Wilson Alvarez who couldn't lose during this time,
1:05.1	was won by Bo Jackson and closed out by Kirk McCaskill,
1:09.6	himself a two sport athletes who got the final four-outs
1:13.1	for the save.
1:14.4	And Kirk is going to join us on the podcast with incredible stories from the game, hilarious
1:21.1	stories about that 1993 team.
1:25.1	So sit back, relax, and strap it down.
1:28.0	It is the Bo Jackson game on the White Sox Talk podcast.
1:32.4	It's coming your way.
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