Hey everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.

Welcome to the White Sox Talk podcast.

It is brought to you, as always, by our great friends at WinTrust.

So the MLB lockout remains in a deep freeze.

I'm doing a big podcast on this topic next week.

So be on the lookout for that.

But in the meantime, what if we did a podcast that was entirely a listener's idea,

courtesy of socks fan Jay Hawk, who asked,

what's the biggest white socks? What If?

Over the last 21 years, here in the 21st century, like if Frank Thomas doesn't get hurt in 2001,

or Carlos Quentin doesn't get hurt in 2008. That's what Jay asked. Well, Jay was really

onto something because there are so many what ifs in baseball.

And in our case, White Sox Baseball, we have one heck of a podcast for you.

Because what ifs aren't just limited to injuries.

They're about trades and signings the White Sox made.

Trades and signings they almost made seasons that could have finished differently if this thing happened, if that thing happened both positively and negatively.

And here in the podcast, we are going to look at White Sox history in a parallel universe.

What if the baseball gods shine on on the white socks at different times than they did in our reality?

And what that would have meant?

Oh, the possibilities.

It's coming your way.

At WinTrust, we know true fans,

...