Hey, everybody. It is a special edition of the White Sox Talk podcast, Trade Deadline special

special Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie wearing a sport jacket. That's all the rest of it. You know it's the trade deadline when Guff is wearing a sport jacket. Nothing parties like a rental, Chuck. Nice winter coat. Yeah. I got a toasty in there. The time you wore Bill Melton's on set was nice. Yeah, that was good. It was good look. The one and only Gordon Beckham is with us as well.

The trade deadline as we speak is about 29 minutes away. So anything that happens while we are here

with you, we will share that with you and we'll see what happens right now as we speak.

Eric Crochet is still a member of the White Sox, same with Luis Robert Jr. What are your thoughts

right now? Will we be seeing Crochet traded before 5 p.m. Central time? Let's start with Gordon Beckham.

I think I'm getting more pessimistic as this goes along. I don't think there's any chance of a

Robert Jr. trade. I think that that's gone for now, which I think it should be. I don't think there's any chance of a Robert Jr. trade. I think that that's gone for now,

which I think it should be. I don't think his values where it should be. And then crochet,

obviously, we've talked a little bit about this, but there's a case to be made, even if he doesn't

get traded in the next 30 minutes, that his value will just be just as strong this off season.

So I think that if I'm Chris Gets, I'm making sure it's right.

Yeah, I mean, look, this whole week has been back and forth about he said, she said,

and then he said again, and if I'm a team that's acquiring Garrett Crochet,

I need to know that he's available in the postseason.

And if the only way to do that is to give him an extension, you're taking the sales right out of it. You're pulling, you know, you're pulling the rug out from right underneath me.

So this does feel like it's lost all the momentum. It felt like he was by far the ace of the trade deadline,

like pun intended there, and that the hall was going to be massive. We've seen some of the

packages for relievers. And there's nobody like Garrett Crochet out there. And it just feels like

the balloon has burst with 30 minutes to go. Like last year we were doing this show and the,

and Dylan ceased the momentum was going all the way until 5 o'clock and it didn't happen. I feel like all of that

momentum basically got zapped out on Monday morning. This is what I think. It all only takes one team.

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