South Side Sox Podcast 78 — Meet Adrian Serrano! (Plus Offseason Chat) — 2022-01-07

01/07/22 • 53 min

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Sure, Brett Ballantini can’t seem to remember what year it is, but still and all, the South Side Sox mothership podcast is back for another year, after a month or so away.

And it’s a Meet the Players podcast, starring our five-tool player, Adrian Serrano! Get to know him a bit through his Meet the Players article up on site today, and listen to our podcast together:

Re-live the 2005 run, and the majesty of the Scott Podsednik walk-off
One of these things is not like the other: Robin Ventura, Eloy Jiménez, Juan Uribe, Ron Karkovice
A surprising pick for next White Sox statue (hint: It will be a loud statue)
What folks don’t get about The Natural, the best baseball movie choice by both on this podcast
Trying to put a positive spin on the pre-lockout White Sox offseason
Will the labor dispute take game away from the season?
Oh, and hey, back to a non-baseball note: Check out Adrian’s band, The Burst and Bloom. They’re really good.

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Sure, Brett Ballantini can’t seem to remember what year it is, but still and all, the South Side Sox mothership podcast is back for another year, after a month or so away.

And it’s a Meet the Players podcast, starring our five-tool player, Adrian Serrano! Get to know him a bit through his Meet the Players article up on site today, and listen to our podcast together:

Re-live the 2005 run, and the majesty of the Scott Podsednik walk-off
One of these things is not like the other: Robin Ventura, Eloy Jiménez, Juan Uribe, Ron Karkovice
A surprising pick for next White Sox statue (hint: It will be a loud statue)
What folks don’t get about The Natural, the best baseball movie choice by both on this podcast
Trying to put a positive spin on the pre-lockout White Sox offseason
Will the labor dispute take game away from the season?
Oh, and hey, back to a non-baseball note: Check out Adrian’s band, The Burst and Bloom. They’re really good.

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Sharing Sox Podcast 61 — Sharing Stockings Edition — 2021-12-17

What do Yolmer Sánchez, Barack Obama, the HOFBP, Yoán Moncada’s next recording, Jim Gaffigan, Chance the Rapper, an ambitious cub (small c) reporter, Warren Buffett, Styx, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Rick Hahn’s Christmas stocking, George Lopez, George Wendt, the California water shortage, Michael Jordan, Jenny McCarthy, Kevin Cash, Warren Buffett and José Abreu’s beard have in common?

Why, they’re all part of White Sox Christmas wishes from Sharing Sox, as SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent Will take a peek into Santa’s sleigh and see what ultimate goodies are in store for the team.

Once the lockout is over, of course.

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South Side Sox Podcast 79 — Meet Zach Hayes! (Plus Labor Talks Chat) — 2022-01-10

On the heels of last week’s Meet the Players podcast with Adrian Serrano, Brett Ballantini is right back at it today with another site stalwart, Zach Hayes. Get to know Zach a bit by revisiting his Meet the Players article that originally ran last July, as you listen to the podcast:

While Brett was trying to grow a playoff beard in 2000, Zach was getting his first memories of the White Sox, brief though that “playoff run” was
Kismet: Zach and Brett were both in attendance at Mark Buehrle’s perfect game — Zach in fact in Brett’s previous season ticket section!
You might think a baseball intellectual like Zach would pick any movie but Major League as his fave diamond flick, but you’d be wrong. Our ace analyst explains himself
So, is Buerhle a Hall-of-Famer? Both Zach and Brett try to squelch amusement and disgust at the mere question
What’s the key to taking dry analysis and injecting it with color enough that an average fan can grasp it? Zach knows it, as evidenced in his work here, and he shares some thoughts (hint: no, he doesn’t really like the numbers as much as the storytelling)
You heard it here first: To SEE RED in 2022, the White Sox will bring back the baby blue zipper roadies and the red pinstripes
Zach WILL NOT be Nightengaled
Finally: room for optimism regarding this latest labor impasse? In fact, for reasons freely shared here: yes.

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