Why Lance Johnson is one of the most underrated White Sox players of all-time

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The White Sox had a lot of great players in the 1990's, but the one guy who always gets overlooked is Lance Johnson. Not anymore. Chuck Garfien and Ozzie Guillen give it up for the One-Dog, talking about everything he brought to the team as a hitter and center fielder, his hunger for winning and hitting triples, how he made the players around him better, and yes, why he's one of the most underrated White Sox players of all-time.

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0:00.0	Look that up. Get it.
0:04.6	Hit into the gap in left center field.
0:06.6	Cordova races over.
0:07.6	Can't get there.
0:09.6	That's a tweeter.
0:10.6	Here comes Snowpeck.
0:11.9	They're waving Brady around.
0:13.1	Here's the throw.
0:13.7	The quick throw by Mears, and they don't get it.
0:19.5	And hopefully they'll give him his 11th triple the season third tonight.
0:23.6	He gets two runs battered in, so one dog is five for five.
0:28.1	How about that night?
0:30.0	Thank you.
0:35.0	Hey, everybody, it's Chuck Arfine.
0:36.9	Welcome to the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust.
0:41.4	And here on the podcast, we appreciate White Sox history.
0:46.1	And there's someone who has been overlooked, overshadowed in White Sox history.
0:51.8	And he's one of the all-time best leadoff hitters and centerfielder's in Sox history, who also's one of the all-time best leadoff hitters and center
0:55.0	fielder's in Sox history, who also had one of the best nicknames.
0:59.0	I'm talking about one dog, Lance Johnson, who played for the Sox from 1988 to 1995, a great
1:06.0	era of White Sox baseball. If you watched him, you know what I'm talking about. And if you didn't,
1:12.3	you're about to understand why Lance Johnson is one of the most underrated players in White
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