The Pope meets one of his heroes, A.J. Pierzynski
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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4.2 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two decades, game one. |
| 0:02.3 | There he is on the left. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm now Pope. |
| 0:06.2 | Humbley. |
| 0:07.4 | All the things in my life I thought I could say, but the Pope knows who I am. |
| 0:11.1 | Because I was catching in that video. |
| 0:15.1 | Pope, he had to have a favorite player. |
| 0:18.5 | He had a jersey on. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm assuming. You wonder, was, oh, you think this was a jersey on. I'm assuming it was. |
| 0:21.6 | Oh, well, you didn't think this was the jersey? |
| 0:23.0 | I think that's what was under his jacket. |
| 0:25.8 | I almost feel like this is blasphemous to Photoshop a jersey on to the Pope. |
| 0:29.3 | Is that all right? |
| 0:32.6 | Guys, did you know the Pope was a White Sox fan? |
| 0:35.7 | So Chicago and Pope, Pope Father Bob, when he went to the World Series opener, 21 years ago, |
| 0:46.7 | got a chance to meet A.J. Persinski today. And I bet that was a big day for Father Bob. Imagine being a lifelong |
| 0:58.2 | White Sox fan and meeting the guy who was in many ways the very annoying heart and soul |
| 1:07.0 | of that World Series team. It must have been very special for the Pope and also special for |
| 1:13.5 | AJ. Sure. Yeah, yeah, age is in there somewhere. Actually, AJ tweeted seven-year-old me at my |
| 1:18.8 | first communion would have never thought I would get to meet the Holy Father, Pope Leo the 14th. |
| 1:24.2 | At White Sox Park. Yeah, I wonder what, like, because at this point, Pope Leo has met so many people who |
| 1:29.9 | gotten so many gifts, but AJ gifts him the out of the, or excuse me, the ball of the final |
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