George Wolkow’s BIG dreams with the White Sox
The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien
Chicago Sports Network
4.7 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What kind of player do you want to be? |
| 0:05.0 | I want to be Hall of Fame. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, I want to be a Hall of Fame. |
| 0:08.0 | I want to be the best player on the field any time, any given moment. |
| 0:10.0 | I want to be one of the best ever play. Obviously, that's a big, big wish to have, big dream to have, but I think day by day, if I could, you know, be good and try to just hold myself to that caliber at the end of the day. |
| 0:10.3 | And, you know, be good and try to just hold myself to that caliber |
| 0:22.2 | at the end of the day. And, you know, when I hang the cleats up, I'll know that, you know, |
| 0:26.9 | I put in my best effort to have that opportunity. |
| 0:33.6 | Every baseball player has a dream. |
| 0:36.9 | George Wilco has a huge dream, and he's not afraid to say it. |
| 0:43.5 | The Downers Grove native and White Sox prospect joins me on the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust. |
| 0:51.2 | Hey, everybody, it's Chuck Arfine at White Sox Spring Training. |
| 0:54.5 | George just turned 18 years old in January. He should be a senior in high school right now at |
| 1:01.3 | Downers Grove North. But the White Sox drafted him in the seventh round last year. He was able to finish |
| 1:06.4 | school early and he's here in camp and he's also the tallest hitter in camp three inches taller than |
| 1:14.0 | Aloy Jimenez. He's six foot seven left-handed. And on a baseball field, he does look like |
| 1:22.5 | Aaron Judge. Now, there's a huge, huge gap between looking like Judge and playing like him. |
| 1:30.7 | But for a teenager, George passes the eye test of a player who has the tools to be really special. |
| 1:37.5 | On the podcast, I speak with George about him growing up a White Sox fan. |
| 1:42.3 | Being in the spotlight at such a young age, those comparisons to judge playing for the White Sox one day and more. |
| 1:51.1 | And then Nikki Delmonico is back on the podcast. |
| 1:53.5 | He's been working with George here at camp. |
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