Munetaka Murakami is set to make this return to the White Sox lineup following a six-week absence

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Mark Grote 1:01

Rahimi Harrison-Grote. Really, really love listening to you guys. You do a phenomenal job.

1:05

Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score.

Will Venable 1:10

Yeah, he feels good. He's ready to go. You know, he was challenged running the bases defensively. Had a really long game yesterday of nine innings. Still feel good about the workload. Recovered well today, so he's ready to go.

Mark Grote 1:20

We like lots of moonshots.

Vinny Rotino 1:22

Oh my goodness, that's Governor Pat Quinn with the request, with the best call yet for the home runs, by the way, was the previous Illinois governor, the former Illinois governor, Pat Quinn with the moonshot line. That was brilliant.

Mark Grote 1:37

Did he also, like Blago said, if I was still the governor, this stadium would have been taken care of by now. Did Pat Ryan say, if I was the governor, this would have been taken care of by now?

Vinny Rotino 1:47

I don't know, but I just loved the peanut gallery aspect of it all.

Mark Grote 1:51

Oh, it was beautiful.

Vinny Rotino 1:53

How involved are you in day-to-day life like us and meatball-ish about these things? Like that aspect of it, I find pleasantly amusing. It's nice. It is that we all have the same complaints. What was not great, as we know, was the White Sox getting swept by the Red Sox. They were due. They had a ridiculously successful streak of home series wins. And I am not as stressed out about it as my partner Marshall was, for example, Mark Brody, or maybe other people who are watching the Sox and trying to say this is the year to take advantage of a very bad ale in general. I get that. They're still first in the Central.

Mark Grote 2:35

Tied.

Vinny Rotino 2:36

And those three games were an absolute slog when it comes to getting only two runs total in the series. All of the hits were singles. The way the runs scored were not solid, like fielder's choice and bloop. So when you consider that part of it, you know, it wasn't a good series. But I am galvanized. By the fact that I saw a healthy Munataka Murakami in his rehab assignment, I'm still paranoid about White Sox hamstring injuries. That's still a sore spot for me.

Mark Grote 3:10

Understood. A little trauma.

Vinny Rotino 3:12

And I'm like, Munay, take your sweet time. You know, if you need to sit through the all-star break, I completely understand. But the tape told the story. The tape of his rehab assignments, you could tell he looked healthy. And then we get the update after the game last night on the post-game show. Burke Fletcher is asking the question to Will Venable, do you have an update for us about Mune? And then he goes, we plan to activate him tomorrow. Alert the masses! Mune's back!

Mark Grote 3:43

It's perfect, too, because the White Sox, with the loss yesterday, dipped under .500 without Munataka Murakami in the lineup. 17-18 is what I heard the White Sox were without Munataka Murakami, which means maybe, maybe, because the White Sox scored one run on Tuesday. Zero runs on Wednesday. One run yesterday. Maybe Will Venable won't have to bring the infield in in the third inning of a scoreless game like he felt compelled to. And I was supporting of it. I was. Yeah. And it worked because there was a ball hit right at an infielder and then the ball hit into the outfield.