Hey, everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.

And happy new year to you.

This is the first podcast of 2025.

And as we know here in Chicago, January is the coldest month of the year.

But here is something that might warm you up.

Spring training is only five weeks away.

Actual baseball will be back in your lives before you know it, and to many of us,

we need it. All right, the garret crochet trade brought four players back to the White Sox,

and our guest today knows three of them very well. Emma Teeteman does play-by-play for the Portland Sea Dogs.

That is the Red Sox AA team, and she called tons and tons of games featuring Kyle Teal, Chase, Midroth, and Wickelman Gonzalez.

She has great insight to share about all three of them, and she herself is a compelling story.

One of only a handful of female baseball announcers in the sport, we're going to talk about her rise in the business, how she got to call a Red Sox game at Fenway this past season,

and her grandfather is an iconic sportscaster in Texas, Bill Mercer,

who once upon a time call the White Sox games with Harry Carey in the mid-1970s.

This is a great conversation with Emma Teetaman on the White Sox's new prospects for sports casting career and more.

It's coming away right now.

A ball hit deep way back.

There's a blast.

Deep to left.

Oh, holy cow!

Carl Penn Penn has put the white talk ahead.

Robert straightens this one out.

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