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Brought to as always by WinTrust Community Bank. Chuck Garfine here with Ryan McGuffey. And we want to talk to someone in the minor leagues who's been on a tear so far, and that is Zach Collins, off to a great start with AAA Charlotte Knights.

He's also one of our favorite people. Yes, he is. Because he's just a fun guy. He gets it down Earth. And he's just, he has fun.

Pretty much any answer could go any different way whether

you're talking seriously about baseball or life in general but off to probably the best start of

his white socks professional career yeah it is and he's normally a slow starter yeah and the charlotte

knights are playing well too i mean first place in the in their division by they're the only team over 500. It's been in quite some

time since you can look down at a Charlotte, that you'd even look at the Charlotte Box School,

or not the Charlotte Box School, but the Charlotte Standing. And you can go, oh, look at this.

So he's off to a great start. The team's off to a great start. It's fun. All right, so we talked to

Zach about his hitting, about his catching. Tell us a great story about Dylan Sees. This is an all-timer, by the way. This is an

all-timer story. Who, what kind of competitor is Dylan Sees? White Sox fans, this is going to make,

I don't say it's going to make your day, but it's pretty good.

It's, what's going on inside the noggin of Dylan Seas when he's got his stuff going? Zach Collins is going to tell you what he said at a recent game. And you know what's funny? It's, it can make Kyle, or Seas seem arrogant, but like, you know him, I've gotten to know him a little bit.

It's like when you think about something that Dillon Seats would say, he's like the only guy that could actually say this guy. I don't want to. Don't say it. Don't say it. It is, it's an awesome story. And he's referring to one of his recent starts. Yes. It's outstanding. And it's something that very few of any other pitchers, whether it be the minor leagues or the major leagues would say that. Justin Verlander would may, no, he wouldn't even say this. I would love to know if Justin Verlinder has ever walked off the mound and said, hey, boom. Yeah. Maybe Chris Sale? No. No. I don't see Chris Sale doing it. I could be wrong.

You could ask Chris Sale. He's one of your buddies. Not anymore. Mark Burley maybe?

No, Burley would not like care that much. You know, like he would just be like, yeah, I don't know, I don't have that great, you know.

And then, okay. Verlanders is a guy. Maybe Verlander might be that guy. Okay. That's a pretty good comp. I know. I know. So we talked to him about all sorts of things. Zach will, you know, the conversations, it's a conversation. This is not an interview. This is a conversation. We get in depth about the Chick-fil-A menu. That's right. So, and I'm working on a promotion.

Are you serious?

I want to work on this Zach Collins promotion about every time he hits a homer, at least in Charlotte.

Okay.

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