An exciting return after a week off, and we are revived with two great guests! Scott Merkin, a staple of White Sox media for the better part of two decades, joins us to talk about the Sox and the nice run they are on right now. We also discuss a potential trade deadline strategy for the club, Ricky Renteria, and when is the right time to transition from rebuild to contention. We are joined by Kevin Brown as well, and we talk about one of the more surprising teams in baseball.. the Baltimore Orioles. Their young core that is stepping up, their bullpen that has been outrageously good, and the excitement they play with night in and night out is all brought up with Kevin, who has a front row seat by broadcasting for MASN. We institute a new game with our guests called Savant and Survive, where we pull 5 random factoids off of Baseball Savant and quiz our guests on who leads the categories. Listen to find out our inaugural leaderboard!

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