Ep. 47: Top pick Jake Burger can’t wait to someday take a bite out of Chicago; When will Sox trades begin?
The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien
Chicago Sports Network
4.7 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. This is Chuck Garfine, and you're listening to the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust Community Bank, |
| 0:05.3 | home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide. Find out more at WinTrust.com slash socks. That is WinTrust.com slash |
| 0:13.8 | socks. We come to you every Tuesday, and we're here at Guaranteed Rate Field, taping this on a Monday, |
| 0:20.6 | because we had a chance to sit down with Jake Berger, the White Sox number one pick from this year. |
| 0:26.1 | And he took batting practice. |
| 0:28.2 | He was spraying the ball all over the field, hit a bunch of a home runs. |
| 0:31.4 | Actually, one of them went to the third to last row in left field. |
| 0:35.6 | However, that did not surpass the home run that Aaron Judge hit of the Yankees. |
| 0:40.7 | I saw him hit a ball that landed on the concourse, just left of center field. Way back there. |
| 0:47.2 | It might have been about 500 feet. I've never seen that before here. But back to Jake Berger |
| 0:51.2 | because White Sox fan should be really excited about this kid. |
| 0:55.1 | He's from the St. Louis area, but he did grow up a White Sox fan. |
| 0:59.5 | So coming up on the podcast, he talks about why he's a White Sox fan, but actually he's more |
| 1:04.2 | than a Sox fan because he says there are two guys that he wants to emulate as an athlete, and |
| 1:10.3 | they're both Chicago icons. |
| 1:12.8 | One is Paul Canerico, and the other one is Jonathan Taves. |
| 1:16.3 | He's a big Blackhawks fan as well. |
| 1:17.9 | So that's the kind of guy Jake Berger is and the kind of makeup that he really has in his DNA, so to speak. |
| 1:25.8 | So he's going to talk about that. |
| 1:29.9 | Also, you've got to find out what kind of burger he likes. What's Jake Berger's favorite burger? And a whole lot more that he lets us in. |
| 1:37.2 | He's just a great, a great person. And I think White Sox fans are really going to embrace him. And |
| 1:41.8 | there's something about a lot of these guys. The White Sox are |
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