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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 151: What does Mother Nature have against Michael Kopech?

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4612 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Rain wreaked havoc with another Michael Kopech performance, suspending play and cutting short his second home start, just like the first one. Still, there was a lot to be excited about with Kopech and Yoan Moncada hitting a home run against his former team. Chuck Garfien and Vinnie Duber break down his abbreviated start, Kopech talks about the game and facing the team that traded him to the White Sox. Chuck also interviews James Shields about Kopech’s development and predicts that the White Sox will soon have one of the best pitching staffs in the game.

Transcript

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0:32.6

Chuck Arfine here with Vinnie Duber.

0:35.3

I don't think Mother Nature wants my copac to go six or seven innings. She's

0:39.3

trying to limit his innings. Only three for his second home start. Your thoughts?

0:44.3

She, like Rick Hahn, has only the thoughts of the long-term future of this franchise in mind.

0:49.3

And so, yeah, she's trying to make sure Michael Copac doesn't tax his arm too much.

0:53.3

What does she think about Elo Jimenez coming up?

0:56.7

I'm not sure we've had any weather-related issues there, so I think the jury's still out.

1:01.1

Okay.

1:02.5

Maybe some kind of like storm could bring Eloy from Charlotte to Chicago.

1:10.5

It'd be kind of weird to have it go east to west, but that's probably what it's going to have to take to get Eloy here this year. Actually, well, let's just be honest. It ain't happening.

1:18.2

Well, we'll see. I mean, yeah, we got the national report on Friday that he's probably not going to agree that he won't come up in September.

1:25.1

The White Sox obviously did not follow that up by saying that it was true. They said, we'll talk about the September call-ups when they're all here, or when they've all been informed, rather. But yeah, it would make sense that at this point we haven't seen Iela Jimenez yet, and perhaps we won't see him at all. Okay, well, here on the podcast, we are going to hear from Michaelo Kopeck about his second home start, third start overall. And then I had a conversation with James Shields. What I found really interesting is that Myo Kopeck's lockers right next to Shields. And it was Shields idea to put Kopeck right next to him. So he's going to talk about that and a whole bunch of other stuff, including what he thinks about the staff, the future staff of the White Sox. You'll want to hear that.

1:44.4

But let's talk about that and a whole bunch of other stuff, including what he thinks about the staff, the future staff of the White Sox. You'll want to hear that. But let's talk about his start here, rain shortened start. I mean, we assume it's me rain shorten. We're talking to him right now during a rain delay. They're going to resume play in a little bit, but no word yet officially about Kopeck. We were assuming he's not going to pitch after he was out for two hours.

2:18.3

He hits Moogie Betts, four pitch walk to Benetton. Do you think he was amped up for this start?

2:23.3

I think he might have seen the Boston Red Sox uniform and batting helmets step into the box against him,

2:29.3

and maybe something went off in his mind a little bit. Yeah, that first pitch hit hit the MVP candidate

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