Ep. 41: Hawk Harrelson sits down with Chuck and Guff to talk retirement

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

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4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On the day that Hawk Harrelson announced he is retiring from the White Sox broadcast booth after the 2018 season, he sat down for an interview with Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey. Hawk talks about his legendary White Sox career, his relationship with Joe West, how umpires will celebrate his retirement and whether he believes he will make it to Cooperstown. Later, White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf joins the podcast to talk about Harrelson as well as Jason Benetti, who signed a multi-year extension as Hawk's official replacement. Finally, White Sox insider Dan Hayes comes on to discuss the struggles of Jose Quintana and whether his trade value has been affected by his sub-par season.

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0:00.0	All right, it's the White Sox Talk podcast.
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0:23.1	so you can listen whenever and wherever you want. Chuck Garfine here with Ryan McGuffie.
0:28.1	We are at Guaranteed rate field on a Wednesday. We normally do it on Tuesday.
0:32.0	The plan was to talk a whole lot about Jose Cantana and Chris Sale.
0:35.9	Guff, we were here ready to do that. And then out of
0:38.5	nowhere comes the announcement that Hawk Harrelson is going to retire at the end of next season.
0:44.1	He's only going to do 20 home games in 2018, and then he'll be an ambassador for the White
0:49.2	Sox after that. But this came as a shock you're going to hear a great interview. He gave us
0:54.1	some great stuff hawk harrison
0:55.2	coming up also jerry rhinosurv talks about hawk but your thoughts guff on the uh the announcement here
0:59.7	today it's somewhat surprising and that's something i never thought it would be when you think like
1:05.3	hey hawk harrison and them announced the white sex announcing his final season it just felt like okay
1:09.7	like that seems right and it just everyone in the last 40 years has grown up with Hawk Harrelson.
1:16.9	Me, you, our dads, our dad's dad, like Hawk Harrelson is synonymous with White Sox baseball.
1:22.7	And when you take a step back and think about what that means, and we talked about that
1:26.0	with him, it's a little overwhelming to even us, I think, not just him.
1:31.2	So, yeah, it did come as a surprise.
1:32.9	I think the White Sox were appreciative that we brought the podcast on the road and maybe save the announcement for us.
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