You are listening to the White Sox Talk podcast from the Winter Meetings, brought to you by WinTrust.

Chuck Garfine here in San Diego. White Sox News was tough to come by in the first day of the winter meetings,

but could something be happening behind the scenes? We got just a man to talk to.

Bob Nightingale of USA Today. He's a winter meetings renegade. He rarely sleeps and is working his

connections morning, noon, night, late night. So what is he hearing about the White Sox? What are scouts

telling him about Luis Robert?

Plus great stories about covering the winter meetings back in the day when trades were done in the middle of the night on cocktail napkins and, let's just say, with a whole lot of alcohol.

It's the White Sox Talk podcast from the Winter Meetings with Bob Nightingale right here, right now.

Let's do it.

White Sox. White Sox. Go, go, white socks.

A ball hit deep way back. Deep to the NFL! Holy cow! Carlton Fiss has put the White Sox ahead.

Jimenez leaves the ballpark. You can put it on the board. Yes.

We got a chance to do something real special.

All right, sit back, relax, and strap it down.

It's time for the White Sox Talk Podcast.

And hello, it is the White Sox Talk Podcast. Brought to you by WinTrust. We are here at the Winter Meetings. Chuck Garfine here with Vinnie Duper, Ryan McGuffie. And for USA today, it is Bob Nightingale who I want to be Bob Nightingale. When I grow up, I want to be. But you know what? I cannot be Bob Nightingale because there's only one of you. I don't know how you'd do it, but I mean, you were tweeting at 2.30 in the morning, Pacific time, about Steven Strassberg's contract details. Tell us about your process. How do you do this? The stamina you have to cover White Sox and Major League Baseball news. The best information is always at the bar at night. So from like 10 o'clock at night until 3 in the morning is when you get your most stuff. So that's the best way to do it. Guys have little drinks, get a little more loose lips, and you never know what you're going to find out. Oh, so go ahead. Technically, there are two Bob Nightingales. Yeah, he's got a son who works as a writer for the Reds. I'll say Bobby Nightingale Jr. So tag team. You'd have to be the third, Chuck. You'd have to be the third at this point. The third one, yeah. How much did you sleep last night? So about four hours, four and a half hours. Okay. Lanky. You're running in adrenaline and then you crash as

soon as this thing ends. All right, so you were at the bar last night. Loose lip people might

have said some things. Did you hear anything on the White Sox? They're going after like a mid-tier

pitcher. That's who they want. I think they're going to explore the trade market to get a guy.

I don't think, you know, I don't think Baumgartner makes sense for them. I think the price tag is going to be high. And, you know, how's Baumgartner going to pitch outside San Francisco? You know, there's still free agents out there. out there Dallas Kiko, you know, is a fit.

Rayu, of course, is a fit.

So I think they're going to come away with somebody, but more of a, you know, is a fit. Ryu, of course, is a fit.

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