Tyler Saladino on the world watching him play baseball

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In a world deprived of sports, baseball season has begun in South Korea where former White Sox infielder Tyler Saladino plays for the Samsung Lions. Tyler joins host Chuck Garfien to discuss the significance of playing live sports, playing baseball without fans, South Korea's fight against the virus, the incredible bat flipping in South Korea and more.(3:03) - Saladino on being one of the few people in the world who can play sports(10:00) - What the testing situation is like in South Korea(18:56) - The feeling and atmosphere playing baseball without fans(26:40) - Getting emotional taking the field knowing the world is watching him play(38:20) - The incredible bat flipping in South Korea. Tim Anderson take notice!

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0:00.0	Southside Legends are back on NBC Sports Chicago.
0:03.4	Every day at four, relive wins from the 2005 season with White Sox Rewind.
0:10.0	Go to NBCSportchicago.com slash Sox Rewind for the complete schedule.
0:17.8	Like taking the field yesterday, knowing everybody back home was watching it, it was like, man,
0:23.8	I almost teared up a little bit on the field.
0:27.1	Like listening to the Korean national anthem, knowing that everybody back home was watching
0:32.6	it was like, man, it was, it was like I was fighting a lot, a lot of emotions at that time.
0:46.3	That's former White Sox infielder, Tyler Saladino, speaking to us from South Korea, where he's one of the few Americans and few people on the planet playing live baseball right now.
1:00.3	He's a member of the Samsung Lions in the KBO League in South Korea.
1:04.5	Their season began this week.
1:07.1	Hey, everyone's Chuck Arfine.
1:08.3	This is the White Sox Talk podcast.
1:10.1	Brought to you by WinTrust,
1:11.3	and here on the podcast, Tyler gives us a hopeful glimpse into what could be our future, a window
1:19.0	into what baseball might look like if and when the season begins here in the States. We talk about
1:24.8	what life is like there, both on the field and off of it. I mean,
1:28.9	when he signed to play in South Korea back in January, few even noticed. But now he's feeling
1:36.0	the spotlight, the attention, and the enormity of it all. And he's not taking it for granted.
1:43.6	We talk about how testing is working there.
1:46.0	The incredible bat flipping he's seeing there,
1:48.9	Tim Anderson, take notice.
1:51.3	And yeah, he's still a big fan of the White Sox
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