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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 93: Is it time to drink the White Sox Kool-Aid?

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s spring training. It’s here! Optimism is everywhere. Things are definitely pointing up with the White Sox, but how much of the Kool-Aid are we willing to drink? A shot glass or go right for the pitcher? Or should we just tap the keg? Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey quench their thirst while taping the podcast from the White Sox spring training complex in Glendale, Arizona. They discuss all the players who are already in camp before it officially opens, what role Matt Davidson says he’s willing to play in 2018, what a healthy Nate Jones would do for the bullpen, why this could be a comeback season for Tim Anderson and more!

Transcript

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0:24.3

Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie, and we are here in Glendale, Arizona, literally sitting outside Camelback Ranch.

0:32.4

We're here at the entrance. And your thoughts being here at the start of a new season.

0:38.8

Well yeah, certainly there's an energy.

0:41.8

Not just from us being here, but the players that, you know, we just did this two weeks

0:49.2

ago at Sox Fest, so it kind of felt like that was like the unofficial start to the season

0:53.8

to me because of how

0:54.7

late, how close it got to spring training. But talking to some of the guys today, you know,

1:01.2

today was the pitchers and catchers are supposed to informally kind of report today. And there

1:06.8

were so many more guys here than pitchers and catches. And I know that that's not abnormal in 2018.

1:11.9

That hitters show up early too.

1:13.4

But the fact that people want to be here and that they just want to get going and are chomping at the bit, so to speak.

1:19.8

And they've been here.

1:20.8

Yeah.

1:21.0

I was told that over the weekend, there were already 45 Major League and Minor League players here.

1:26.0

I mean, it's incredible.

1:27.0

They have 66 guys at the

1:28.5

big league camp this year and they just some of the local guys or some of the local some of the

1:34.6

PR guys about beckdall and and some of the white stock staff were actually trying to remember if

1:38.5

that's ever happened before and i know they don't have some of the media guys yeah some of the

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