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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 116: Have no fear, White Sox farm system in high gear

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time again. Time to check out everything that’s going on in the White Sox minor league system. Lots of exciting things happening. Chuck Garfien, Chris Kamka and Slavko Bekovic cover it all from Charlotte to Kannapolis with the latest on Michael Kopech, Eloy Jimenez, Blake Rutherford, Gavin Sheets, Alec Hansen and Zack Collins plus some sleeper prospects who are making noise at all levels of the farm system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.3

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0:17.8

For more information, go to the special White Sox webpage, www.W..w.w.wintrust.com slash socks. Chuck Arfine here with Chris Kamka and

0:26.2

Slavko Bekavik. All, Sox fans, this right here is your safe place during the White Sox

0:32.7

Rebuilds, as we have seen and experienced have the potential to be ugly, embarrassing,

0:37.1

debilitating,

0:38.4

and can even question your faith in White Sox baseball like we saw last week.

0:42.9

Things can always get worse, guys, but I think what we saw last week was the abyss.

0:49.1

As as bad as you've seen in a while, probably since, was that 07 season where the White Sox were just

0:55.2

absolute garbage? Well, I mean, 20, no, I think he was 20, 20, 20. They lost 99 games was pretty bad too. Yeah, 2013, I think of that was. Well, at least there was talent on some of those teams. Yeah. That we're like, well, there's Chris Sayles here and Katana's here. There was something to watch. this, that Cubs series was pretty tough.

0:52.4

Because outside of

1:11.9

Abreu, I mean, watching Gialito's struggle, even though he battled and they ended up getting a win in that third game, it was for the first time in a while where you were like, well, the first two games. Right. The first two were ugly. Well, I think what I'm going off of is it's, it's, they played that great game against Pittsburgh. The whole game was great.

1:08.9

Then Nate Jones gives up four runs.

1:10.4

Yeah.

1:10.9

And then they go into the Cubs series and then played the, I think their worst game of the year. I have not seen more upset White Sox fans in a long, long time. They wanted Rensuria fired. They wanted f DFA. I mean, it got ugly out there. You think

1:46.1

it was the cubby effect? If it was

1:48.0

to any other opponent, you're probably like,

1:50.1

man, that sucks, but it's okay.

1:52.1

It's still a rebuild. All fan base

1:54.0

overreact to everything, and all

1:56.1

fan bases think that whatever is

1:57.9

plaguing their team is the biggest

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