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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Mike Veeck on Disco Demolition, baseball’s future and more

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien sits down with baseball visionary Mike Veeck, son of former White Sox owner Bill Veeck to talk about the game’s past, present and future. They discuss how his idea of Disco Demolition became the best and worst promotion in baseball history, how actor Bill Murray saved Veeck's baseball career, why the pitch clock will be a huge win for baseball, what MLB should do to improve the game going forward and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every decision the fans should have a seat at the table.

0:09.0

How do you give them a seat at the table?

0:11.0

You form a committee of fans from every city and not a phony committee that gets together,

0:19.0

but once a month it meets to air grievances or to,

0:23.0

you know, air accolades and say, hey, they're really doing this well. And it's terribly important.

0:30.0

Well, if you want some outside the box thinking about baseball, look no further than Mike Vec. The Maverick son of former White Sox

0:41.0

Maverick owner, Bill Vec, he is our guest on this edition of the White Sox Talk

0:46.0

podcast brought to you by Win Trust. Hey, everyone, it's Chuck Arfine, and as we wait for the

0:51.4

White Sox to hire their next manager and what if fans had a seat

0:56.2

at the table for that decision. I wanted to speak with someone who I've been fascinated with for

1:02.2

years and years and years and that's Mike Beck. To talk about the game of baseball, where it is,

1:07.3

where it was, and where he believes it needs to go next.

1:18.4

Mike has always been pushing the envelope, looking at baseball in ways that remind us why we love the game and why you the fans make it all possible.

1:23.6

From the exploding scoreboard to Harry Carey singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game,

1:28.0

to players wearing shorts, to disco demolition and so many other crazy ideas in between Bill,

1:35.2

Vec and Mike Vec have captured the imagination of baseball fans for decades.

1:40.7

So on the podcast, I speak with Mike about his dad, about the game, about disco demolition,

1:47.3

and how Bill Murray, the Bill Murray, saved his baseball life. That's coming up next.

1:57.6

White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.

2:01.3

The ball hit deep way back.

2:03.6

Deep time, fail!

2:05.5

Holy cow!

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