Paul Konerko reflects on 9/11

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On September 11, 2001, the White Sox were in New York City to play the Yankees when the World Trade Center was attacked. Paul Konerko woke up in the team hotel that morning to a city in chaos. Chuck Garfien speaks with Konerko about his experience that day, how the White Sox made it back to Chicago and how 9-11 continues to affect him 20 years later. Konerko also talks about the 2021 White Sox and their chances in the post-season.

Transcript

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0:19.2	Hey everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.
0:21.3	Welcome to the White Sox talk podcast.
0:24.6	Coming to you, as always, by our friends at WinTrust.
0:29.8	Hard to believe.
0:31.9	20 years.
0:33.3	20 years have passed since 9-11.
0:37.5	The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York hit our country and hit all of us who live here, all of us who love our country.
0:48.0	And it hit the White Sox because they were there that day in New York to begin a series with the Yankees.
0:58.4	So they experienced 9-11 firsthand, the fear, the anxiety, and the unknown of really what happened that morning and not knowing what was going to happen next.
1:12.9	So here on the podcast, I speak with someone who was there that day with the White Sox,
1:20.5	living through the fear and the anxiety of 9-11.
1:24.9	And that's Paul Canerco, who woke up in the White Sox Hotel that morning in Manhattan
1:31.4	to a city that was under attack, a city in chaos, and in a world that had been changed forever.
1:42.0	And later here on the podcast, I'm going to explain my own personal experience with 9-11
1:48.5	and how it affected my family because my sister was at the World Trade Center that morning
1:56.4	right after the first plane hit.
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