Sam Antonacci furthers 'dirty player' narrative with slide against Pirates

0:00Rahimi and Grote. Hey, Payah Tachin. Midday 10 a.m. to 2 on the score. Well, some fireworks as we went to break both benches and bullpen's cleared. And let's take a look at how this started after the ground ball double play and to Nachi with the slide into second. And he sticks out that elbow and loud did not like that. Words were exchanged and that's when both benches cleared. Okay, wow. We'll get to that here in just a second. Some fun stuff in the white socks game last night. John Schriffin with the call right there on CHSN. This is Rahimi and Grote. We are broadcasting live from Cody's public house in Lakeview until 2 o'clock today. We got a jam and day here because after us Spiegel and Holmes with Lawrence Holmes and Carmen Vitale will be live from Timothy O'Toole's in street reveal from 2 to 6 p.m. But we invite you to come

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2:04here at Cody's as I typically am. Yes. Ever I'm at Cody's absolutely you can find me here from time to time and we've got all the football ready on TVs so it's nice to watch all the games but last night watching the games I told you I rage quit the Cubs game for several endings to just focus on the white socks once it was six to nothing and what a game we ended up watching socks hit a little bit better than they had as a team previously they still don't get enough hits overall I know that was part of the reason for the loss yesterday to the pirates frustrating but in the meantime it's not what you're going to talk about you're going to talk about what happened between Sam Antonati and Brandon Lowe. Again you can say that the story of game intermit of the game intermingled with that because the the white socks offense had two bases loaded opportunities and in both of those spots late in the game in the seventh and eighth innings the white socks were victims that's right they were victimized by double plays in both of those cases but yes the one that we are talking about the

3:05ending of interest the guilty inning seventh inning it's four one hey there's Vargas why didn't he start the game last night I was talking to some angry white socks fans last night who were like why the hell at this point in time this season are the white socks not starting Miguel Vargas. I too asked that question I'm like why is he coming in off the bench like why why wasn't he in the starting lineup right not now this eighth it's time to be just you just had a labor day off you know it's not like they hadn't had a day off. Yeah they just had a day off that's a great point but it was in that inning Vargas comes up off the bench it's four one and the seven the bases loaded one out Vargas does hit the ball sharply two third base classic five four three double play but on the along the way Sam Antonati was the base for and at first going towards second base he gives a little elbow I suppose you would say some people call it the chicken wing a little elbow to brand and

4:05allow the guy that was covering second base in that case and apparently so they had gone to commercial we didn't see it in real time they come back and they apparently Brandon Lau got a little bent out of shape on the elbow that Antonati was giving both benches clear typical bench clearing baseball thing or it was just more guys trying to break each other up guys saying hello to each other good to see you man oh good to see you but it's just a bunch of posturing now you literally stand up there and puff your chest right hold me back that that's really what it is so so Antonati does this everybody is irritated with the situation and might take on it is it's kind of two fold because it's like Antonati is a potster there's no doubt about it this is this is thanks one to no one markers and absolutely I can relate to him and look hey the springfield kid I cut my teeth and springfield as well shout out to springfield illinois hope everybody's doing well about three hours south here from where we are broadcasting right now but this is not the first second or third time he has gotten under the skins of opposing teams I

5:09remembered vividly that first game in the Boston series that terrible Boston series for the white socks where he pissed off Wilson Contreras doing something similar at first base in Wilson Contreras is like the hell you doing man and then Contreras went on to have a really good game yeah why are you throwing the bows at the club so to speak when there's when there's room and if you look at it you know we got a text message saying hey there was no collision no at the very end when Antonati pops up when he's standing up and now has to give him space you know there's there is a they bump into each other so yeah I mean there is contact made it's not like a you know old school prior to the slide rules changing prior to how they called that you know it's not that kind of collision right but it's no they made contact with each other yes and you could tell offense was taken all right let's we got two great pieces of audio we got some Aussie again that we're going to play in a second but first let's let's hear from Santa Antonati let's let him defend himself he shared his perspective on the incident at second base with

6:09pirate second base been branded loud can you explain what happened between you and bringing mother yeah bases base were loaded and yeah went into the the base pretty hard just you know trying to make a hard throw for him to have to make and you know completely legal play if you you know go look at the rule book or go look at what happened you know you can slide as late as you want as long as you keep contact with the bag and that's exactly what happened and I think nowadays in this this game this this age I think a lot of people are used to you know you know just letting up on that play you know they they say you know we play play one sixty two games you know just a let up early I don't want to make contact with them but you know here we're trying to get around anyway we can and that's a close ballgame these are playoff games and all I'm trying to do is scratch around there and yeah sure he's a great guy

7:11but you know he get a few choice words to say at the end and then kind of you know walked away after that and yeah when you have a problem and you walk away like that it's happy enough to have a conversation but you can't you can't walk away and you know he's a grown man so but like I said with all that being said it's you know they they they won the game so you know they get the last laugh I guess you could say yeah what's there anything in particular you said he had a few words anything in particular that he took on bridge with on the slide I think he's just used to you know players letting up you know sliding like maybe 60 feet sliding or peeling off because you know that's what that's what people are comfortable with nowadays and I don't want to speak for you know the old age of baseball but I don't think a lot of people were letting up and I

8:13think it's kind of been you know the norm to to let up nowadays and yeah we're trying to get around anyway we can there and you know I did the same thing yesterday and you didn't say anything but you know I could hear a mumble a little bit but yeah I'm just playing the game are and I think a lot of people don't see that way I guess do you think that you're getting noticed as being a physical point oh yeah I would think even you know people would label me as you know maybe a dirty player but I know that I have no dirty intentions behind it so if you know people want to be mad for for me you know I'll also remember I'll play in them it's you know it's just fine by me he's hilarious that's Sam Antonacci do you think he's just kind of doing the what you're talking about I understand like come on you're used to it a certain way I guess these guys are

9:14a little but I'm sure he's a great guy he's a grown man so he's a treat yeah that he's a grown man got me I think here's the thing is Sam Antonacci knows one way and one speed he knows what he's doing and he knows how to hustle and he knows how to try to win on the margins in his play and I think he thinks that he's going to take every inch he is allowed in order to get the advantage that he got getting to the big leagues to begin with yeah that's what he has to do he has to be maximum maximum effort or else he's not going to be on that that he has to do he has to get hit by every third at bad he has to get by a bit because this is his existence he's actually baseball yes he sacrifices his body sacrifice himself now here's the problem is okay it's one thing to sacrifice yourself but is there a discussion to be had about about preventing that when you don't have to do it you know once you're at the wood when somebody else is part of the process when the opponent could be the one colliding with you or in this case bumping or whatever you don't want

10:14to happen well yeah especially in a situation where you're trying to score and runs are at a premium and you haven't done well against his pirates team right it's a close ballgame like you said the game is on the line right there if you can affect a two run ballgame in any way shape or form you do it all that said he knows what he's doing you know what I mean like Sam Antonacci gets it and I think the beautiful part about Antonacci is that he I think he accepts that he even said like I guess people I guess people think I'm a dirty player whatever the better question is does he get buzz tie and tight today that that will be interesting to see we do we shall see a little bit later on by the way a Hagen Smith making his first starts for the white sock one more cut we got to hear Ozzy Gian was just absolutely on fire in the post game show and this morning on haunt patty was great in both places this cut that we've chosen just happens to have been from CHSN last night Ozzy Gian is an old school guy who doesn't like the way baseball has played

11:14today in certain regards here's Ozzy on the whole thing what did you think about what Antonacci did here nothing nothing I don't think he's you know I think it's all we try a little winky yeah I like I'm gonna touch your baseball be made for real man you know you know I mean it's not right hurt him you know you said you slide stop eyes contact him I don't think he overreacted I think they did you know man I think he's a big deal but I see Antonacci do them against Boston he was a little different but in that place is really nothing going on you know I mean just a part of the game maybe but I don't think was the reaction of the second basement and be honest with you but now I know I say they play like ladies will let it there's tough you see those lady playing nowadays is a boy but now I'm a really baseball is a bunch of Barbies playing baseball that moment was made for Ozzy again man he played at a different time when you were allowed to hurt guys and expose guys and real punches were thrown when the benches were clear yeah I feel like the buster Posey broken leg changed everything that

12:18did it it really didn't ruin it for everybody honestly in a way yeah and I remember talking to Art How about it and he said the issue is you're supposed to give a path but you're supposed to it there's a technique when you slide where as a catcher and I was a former catcher you know you you have your shin placed in a certain way where your protector is facing that direction and then you wouldn't have that issue but that's just not how the game has played anymore so then I feel like that did change everything we have seen some serious collisions at second base too but Ozzy last night was hilarious and then Chuck nothing nothing Chuck was perfect there because he reacted the same way a lot of us did and then Ozzy didn't want to diss on the women who play the game hard but then set a bunch of Barbie there's a lot of people to buy a bunch of Barbies out there that's so funny and then the way Barbie moves you know her arms are permanently folded she's on her toes the visual really sold it for me I

13:18just love it for Brandon loud shirt like there's a sure is a nice guy and Brandon loud is a really nice ball player to me very familiar with Brandon loud is with his constant time in the NL Central and the Cubs will get a little piece of their act tomorrow the Cubs are off today and then they'll be hosting the the pirates tomorrow yeah the better question is does being in town for a weak effect and opposing team do you have too much fun in Chicago did the Yankees when they were here now the Yankees the Yankees were one of the best teams in the league so it didn't really matter but if you're if you're on the French like Pittsburgh does it affect you yeah well so far not not the case they have one two in a row the nine three win on Tuesday and a four to win last night and the White Sox still two games up on the Cleveland Guardians in the division right now Davis Martin by the way didn't really get to talk about him but pretty strong performance five innings one run four hits a strike out a couple walks they only let him go 68 pitches I like the way they handled Davis Martin last night thank you to some of the people helping to make this

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