What we learned about the White Sox in season’s first seven games

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

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4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The White Sox started the season with World Series expectations, but so far the results have been underwhelming on the field and in the win column. What’s going on? Chuck Garfien, Ryan McGuffey and Vinnie Duber discuss what’s ailing the White Sox right now, focusing on the defense and bullpen. Plus, Tony La Russa blames himself for a tough loss in Seattle, Yermín Mercedes and Zack Collins are off to surprising starts, Michael Kopech is must-see TV and more.(2:18) - Reaction to what the Sox have been so far(8:08) - Tony La Russa takes responsibility for the loss vs the Mariners(11:05) - White Sox players are pissed at their performances so far this season(15:25) - What have we learned about the team early in the season?(21:10) - Positive takeaways (26:20) - Grading the first week of the season. Biggest concerns for the White Sox

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Chuck Garfine. Welcome to the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you as always by WinTrust. Okay, the season has just begun. It's early.
0:21.8	Lots of baseball to be played.
0:24.2	But it's not too early to talk about what we've seen so far.
0:29.2	What we like and what we don't like.
0:32.8	Now, the wins, they've been great.
0:36.0	The losses, all the losses, have been ugly. I mean, forget about
0:41.9	moral victories. These losses have been backbreakers, which is probably why some
0:47.4	socks fans are feeling frustrated and even a sense of dread. Well, here on the podcast, we're going to dive into what's happened so far with the white
0:58.6	sides and why it's happened.
1:01.7	What we're seeing both good and bad, and hopefully some, if not most, of that ugly
1:10.4	we've been seeing is behind us.
1:14.0	So what we're learning so far about the White Sox, that is coming your way.
1:23.1	White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.
1:27.0	A ball hit deep way back, deep to the football!
1:31.3	Holy cow, Carlton Fiss has put the White Sox ahead.
1:36.3	Jimenez leaves the ballpark.
1:38.3	You can put it on the board! Yes!
1:42.3	We got chance to do something real special. All right special all right sit back relax and strap it down
1:47.5	it's time for the white socks talk podcast all right rye mcuffie vene duber this is a part
1:56.3	podcast part i don't know therapy session about how things are transpiring so far for the White Sox.
2:04.1	What are we learning about this team?
2:06.3	Maybe also what we're learning a little bit about ourselves and our expectations and how things are unfolding so far with the team.
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