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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 109: Positive signs for Danny Farquhar

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With news that White Sox reliever Danny Farquhar is making progress after suffering a brain hemorrhage during the game on Friday, Chuck Garfien spoke with his bullpen mate Hector Santiago who provided new information about Farquhar's improving condition. Santiago talks about Danny's fun personality, why he's bringing Farquhar's jersey out to the bullpen every night, the stroke of luck that the incident occurred during a baseball game and more.

Transcript

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Home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide. more. Go to the special White Sox web page

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www.wintrust.com slash socks. We begin the podcast with encouraging news about Danny Farquhar,

0:31.1

who suffered a brain hemorrhage and a ruptured aneurysm during the game on Friday.

0:37.1

Here's the good news.

0:38.2

He has use of his extremities.

0:40.3

He's responding to questions and commands.

0:43.0

He's speaking to doctors and his family.

0:45.7

He does remain in critical but stable condition in the ICU unit at rush.

0:50.4

He's expected to remain there for the next few weeks.

0:53.4

Now, as White Sox fans, you might be wondering what you can do to help.

0:57.0

Well, you can send get well wishes and letters to support Danny by mailing to him at guaranteed rate field.

1:04.3

The address is 333 West 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616.

1:10.2

And let's hope he comes through the other side of this,

1:13.5

living a normal, healthy life. And there are some very good signs going forward about how he's

1:19.4

doing right now. And we're going to learn more about it here on the podcast. Now, Danny hasn't

1:24.8

been on the White Sox that long. He signed with the Sox last July. I know him a little bit. I can tell you that he is extremely humble, and he's got a great, great sense of humor. The day this happened before the game, he walked into the clubhouse. This will give you an idea of what he's like. He walked into the clubhouse, came by a few of us in the media who were waiting by someone else's locker and he said, hey guys, I'm busy. Don't have time for you right now. I'm too busy. I'm too busy. And, you know, because he's a relief pitcher and he doesn't get a lot of attention. But he's done this several times, kind of walking through the clubhouse and saying, yeah, I don't have time for me right now or he might do, hey, if if you guys want to talk to me, just come to my locker. I'm right here. But oftentimes people don't. But I did interview Danny a couple of weeks ago about his crazy journey that he's had in his baseball career. When he was with the Rays a few years ago, they sent him up and down in the minors about like four or five times one season. He's also been traded a few years ago, they sent him up and down in the miners about like four or five times one season.

2:19.6

He's also been traded a few times. And back in 2012, the Yankees traded him to the Mariners in a deal

2:26.4

for each hero. And when I interviewed Danny about that a couple of weeks ago, he gave this great answer.

2:32.7

He goes, I call that the Danny Farquhar trade.

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