Ep. 319: Distant Replay: Robin Ventura vs. Nolan Ryan

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In the latest edition of Distant Replay, we go back to August 4, 1993, when Robin Ventura famously charged the mound against future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, reliving the game and digging up stories you've never heard. Why the fight started years before because of Craig Grebeck (3:50), "You Gotta Be Bleeping Me!" Everything we learned rewatching the broadcast (15:00), Ryan hits Ventura with a pitch and chaos ensues (25:25), Nolan Ryan doesn't get ejected??!!! Gene Lamont goes crazy and gets tossed from the game (33:55), Chuck calls up Gene Lamont. Yes, he calls Gene Lamont (42:20), a future White Sox legend was at the game and met Ventura before the game (51:20) and more.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, you're listening to the White Sox Talk podcast brought to you by Win Trust,
0:11.3	Chuck Garfin with you, and today it's the second installment of our special series,
0:17.4	Distant Replay, where we look back at a classic game in White Sox history and take a 50-foot deep dive into everything that happened.
0:27.1	What we remember, what we forgot, and unearthed things that nobody knew about in the first place.
0:32.6	And today it is a Donnybrook, August 4th, 1993, the night, 26-year-old Robin Ventura charged the mound against 46-year-old
0:44.3	and future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, creating one of the greatest sports bloopers of all time.
0:51.3	There is so much to this game, not just the fight, but what happened
0:57.0	in the game after the fight and the backstories behind the brawl that have been seriously
1:03.4	lost in history. You also had a former U.S. president who was at the game, as well as a certain White Sox legend,
1:13.6	who was randomly there with his junior Olympic baseball team. So lots to get to. Let's get to it.
1:20.6	Robin Ventura, Nolan Ryan, and the most famous Noggies in the history of mankind.
1:28.3	Here we go.
1:29.3	White Sox!
1:30.3	White Sox!
1:31.3	Go, no, White Sox!
1:33.3	A ball hit deep way back.
1:35.3	Deep time!
1:36.3	Holy cow!
1:39.3	Carlton Fess has put the White Sox ahead!
1:42.3	Imenez leaves the ballpark.
1:45.4	You can put it on the board.
1:48.2	Yes.
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