Ep. 293: Roger Bennett’s undying love for the White Sox

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien speaks with Roger Bennett, co-host of the popular soccer show "Men in Blazers" about his love for the White Sox. Despite growing up in Great Britain, Bennett is a die-hard fan. He talks about going to his very White Sox game in 1986 (6:30), how he met the Chicago Bears at O'Hare Airport during his first visit to Chicago (10:00), why Joey Cora is his all-time favorite player (13:25), why he's optimistic about the White Sox and their young core (20:10), why he was "crapping in my pants" thinking about throwing out the ceremonial first pitch (21:50) and more.

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0:00.0	Keep your money local.
0:01.4	Bring it home to a WinTrust Community Bank,
0:03.6	home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide.
0:06.5	Find out more at wintrust.com slash Sox.
0:09.3	Members FDIC.
0:10.5	White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.
0:14.2	A ball hit deep way back.
0:16.4	Deep to the Redwood!
0:18.2	Holy cow!
0:20.0	Charlton Fess has put the White Sox ahead.
0:23.2	Jimenez leaves the ballpark.
0:26.1	You can't put it on board.
0:28.9	Yes.
0:30.0	We got a chance to do something real special.
0:32.2	All right, sit back, relax, and strap it down.
0:34.6	It's time for the White Sox Talk podcast.
1:02.1	Music and strap it down. It's time for the White Sox Talk podcast. You are listening to the White Sox Talk podcast brought to you, as always, by WinTrust.
1:07.1	Chuck Arfine here, and today on the podcast, we have a special guest.
1:13.6	It is our first guest with a British accent on the podcast. It's Roger Bennett,
1:20.6	the co-host of Men and Blazers, a wildly popular show about soccer and its reception here in the United States. You can see it on the NBC Sports Network. You can also listen to their
1:25.8	podcast, men in Blazers, you've got to check it out.
1:29.1	Now, you're wondering maybe, why is Roger Bennett on this podcast? Well, it turns out that despite
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