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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 166: A.J. Pierzynski’s problem with Manny Machado

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski comes on the podcast and tells Chuck Garfien why he’d sign Nolan Arenado over Manny Machado (6:15). Pierzynski criticizes Machado for saying that he doesn’t play hard everyday (7:08). Would he make Machado the face of the White Sox franchise? (12:30) He also talks about how bullpenning cost the Milwaukee Brewers a spot in the World Series (14:45). He reveals the former White Sox player who had a gift for recognizing players who tipped their pitches (21:00). Pierzynski tells behind the scenes stories about former teammates Nick Swisher, Bartolo Colon, Gavin Floyd and more (28:00).

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:13.0

Chuck Arfine with you, and Mani Machado was public enemy number one during the NLCS against Milwaukee Brewers.

0:24.1

And when that was going on, the guy that kept popping in my head was A.J. Persinski.

0:30.6

I wanted to hear what AJ had to say about what Mani was doing, the booze that he was faced with when he went back to Milwaukee.

0:41.6

He could relate, I would assume, A.J. Prasinski to Mani Machado.

0:44.7

So, stay on the podcast, a long talk with A.J. Prisinski about Machado,

0:49.5

who talks about what Mani did, if he thinks Mananny's a dirty player, should he become the face of a

0:59.5

franchise like the White Sox? And I even ask A.J. if he was to choose between Manny Machado and

1:06.8

Nolan A.Ranado, who would A.J. choose? And he hands down, said one guy over the other, and he'll tell you about that.

1:16.2

Me and AJ talked about the bullpenning that's been going on in the postseason

1:19.4

and how AJ thinks it costs the Brewers, a spot in the World Series.

1:23.7

Tipping pitches.

1:25.6

That was something that happened with Craig Kimbrel and Alex Cora got a little

1:31.5

message from his friend Arganie about that. So I asked AJ about tipping pitches and he said

1:38.4

something that shocked me. There was a former White Sox hitter who was like the guy, the guy to know and find and spot when a pitcher

1:49.8

was tipping his pitches. And when you find out who this person is, you are going to be shocked.

1:55.7

That's coming up. And then we did some story time. Storytime with AJ Prasinski.

2:03.8

I wanted to hear some behind-the-scenes stories about,

2:09.0

oh, Gavin Floyd, Joe Creedy, Nick Swisher, Bartolo Cologne,

2:11.7

and AJ delivered.

2:15.8

So all that and more coming up on the White Sox Talk podcast, a conversation with A.J. Persinski.

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