Ep. 148: Michael Kopech’s MLB debut

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey discuss the major league debut of Michael Kopech: the atmosphere in the ballpark, Kopech’s performance on the mound and behind the scenes stories in the Kopech family suite. You’ll hear Kopech’s post-game press conference and Chuck’s interview after the game with former White Sox reliever Addison Reed who now pitches for the Twins.

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0:34.6	Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie.
0:36.7	Very quiet here at Guaranteed Rayfield. It was pretty loud for Michael Copac's debut. About 8,000 extra tickets were sold. Your thoughts? First off, we're going to go through this chronologically. We have a lot to get to. We're going to hear from Copac. We're going to hear from Addison Reed. Interesting stuff from him. Former White Sox
0:55.1	pitcher who is with the Twins now. We'll get to that a little bit later on. But let's talk about
0:59.8	just what you saw from Kopeck in his debut. I mean, the atmosphere was better than advertised.
1:06.9	I mean, there was roughly 24, 25,000 fans here, but a lot were here for pregame,
1:12.5	surrounding the bullpen, really soaking in the moment of another major step of the rebuild.
1:19.4	And it was almost, for the 24,000 that were here, it was playoff-like atmosphere because they stood for every two-strike count.
1:28.2	They were very engaged.
1:29.2	It was a very loud 24,000, very engaged crowd.
1:33.7	And it was, I can't remember a crowd like that at this ballpark in a long time.
1:38.2	It's been a long time.
1:38.9	It was a better crowd for Kopec's debut than Mankata.
1:43.0	And I get it because you're dialed in every pitch.
1:46.0	When it's a position player and he comes up to bat, you have to wait two more innings.
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