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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 83: 2018 Hall of Fame class...is this the year Bonds and Clemens get into Cooperstown (along with Thome)?

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With the Hall of Fame announcing its 2018 inductees on January 24, Chuck Garfien, Chris Kamka and Rob Wiatrowski revealed their Hall of Fame ballots in a lively debate about who should get into Cooperstown and who shouldn’t. Plus, will Jim Thome be a first ballot Hall of Famer? What about Omar Vizquel? They talk Bonds, Clemens, Schilling, Walker, McGriff, Mussina and many more.

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0:00.0

Ball hit deep.

0:02.0

Way back!

0:04.0

He looks up.

0:05.0

You can.

0:06.0

Putting it on the board.

0:08.0

It is.

0:10.0

Number 500 fortune, Tony.

0:14.0

A game winner.

0:17.0

You're in the bottom of the night.

0:18.0

Yeah, he's a socks win.

0:20.0

9 to 7. You're awesome bomb. The night, he's the socks win. 9 to 7.

0:21.6

You are awesome big man.

0:27.6

Jim told me providing one of the greatest moments in White Sox history, hitting his 500th career home run in walkoff fashion in 2007.

0:36.6

He'd go on to hit 612 home runs, which is

0:40.4

eighth best all time. Will it be enough to get him into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot?

0:46.7

Who's going to get in when the names are announced on January 24th? Who won't get in? We've got that

0:52.6

and more on this edition of the White Sox Talk podcast

0:55.1

brought to you by WinTrust Community Bank, home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide.

1:00.1

You can find out more by going to wintrust.com slash socks. Chuck Arfine here to break it all down

1:07.1

with our resident Hall of Fame experts, Chris Kampka and Rob Wiatrowski.

1:11.6

Is this like, Chris, is this like New Year's Christmas and your birthday all wrapped into one,

1:17.5

talking about the Hall of Fame?

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