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For more information, go to their special White Sox webpage page, www.wintrust.com slash socks. Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie and Chris Kamka. We've got a couple of things going on with the podcast today. Number one, it's the White Sox and the Cubs facing off in Mesa while we're doing the podcast. Guys, it's like we're almost there. Yeah, it's like we're doing Mystery Science Theater 3000.

We're going to give commentary as the game goes on. Hey, the weather is, the weather equals, equates out here and there right now. Yeah, you're right. I kind of feel like, yeah. We might as well be in Arizona. I can't give the people out there the exact picture of how closest television is to our face right now.

It's very close.

It is like we're at Sloan Park. I can't give the people out there the exact picture of how closest television is to our face right now,

but it is like we're at Sloan Park. Okay. Carson Fullmer, not a good debut for him for his first start. I would argue that Nikki Delmonic had a worst day. In the field. I'm just, yeah. Yeah, he's got a couple of hits so far. I know. It's fine. It's fine. I like, you know what, let me see Carson Fulmer getting a little jam.

Let me see Carson Fulmer getting a little jam.

Let me see Carson Fulmer work on it. Let me see Carson Fulmer what he can do after the defense lets him down. Let's see his boys. That did happen. Let's give him a chance to do that. I saw all of that and it didn't look good. All right. And it's four to three Cubs right now.

So as the podcast is going on,

and we'll be giving our commentary as things progress.

The other thing we're going to talk about is what to do about third base, not just, well,

we kind of know where it's going to go, we think, in 2018, but really going forward.

Third base has been a black hole for the White Sox since

Creedie left in 2008. And now with that devastating injury to Jake Berger, what should the

White Sox do about third base going forward? Before that, we got to, though, talk about Jake

Berger himself because it's official ruptured Achilles tendon surgery this week

out for the season I mean this is just shattering news and from a personal

standpoint I'll speak for Guff too we love this kid we love this kid I he'll be

back but his whole timetable is now pushed back a whole other year yeah the

personal side to it we just spent two weeks in

spring training, you and I mean, he's, I've never seen a kid who's never played above,

you know, low A have such an impact and a personality, an infectious personality,

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