Anything about, you know, Chicago sports teams, they show up when it, when it matters.

And if you play hard and if you play the game the right way, they like you.

And it's one of those things.

It's a very, I could be wrong, but it's a very blue collar fan base, which is something that, you know, I grew up loving, but it's something that I feel

like you can model your game after. And it's something I just want the White Sox fans to know about me

is that I'm going to always give 110%. Sometimes it might not go my way, but I'm trying.

So imagine growing up a White Sox fan, and then years later, getting to play for them.

It's been the dream of probably millions of kids over the last 100 years.

And Nikki Lopez is one of the very few given the chance to live out that dream.

The Naperville Native is back on the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust for a really great conversation,

not just about what it's like game to play for the White Sox,

but he's going to take you, me, all of us, inside the clubhouse here at Spring Training

as the team with many new faces like Nikki is trying to change the culture and the direction

of the franchise in both big ways and a lot of little ways.

And we get into that.

And with Nikki growing up a diehard White Sox fan, I ask him for his Mount Rushmore of all-time

favorite White Sox players.

And believe it or not, there's a guy who is on the pre and post game shows with me,

who's on his list, and it might not be who you're expecting.

And then I test his knowledge of White Sox history.

We play a game of White Sox trivia.

So it's Nicky Lopez on changing the clubhouse culture, accountability, his favorite

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