White Sox Talk Podcast: Alec Hansen and Zack Collins on their friendship and the fight that brought them closer together

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Appearing together on the White Sox Talk Podcast at SoxFest, all was good between Alec Hansen and Zack Collins. The highly touted White Sox prospects are both friends and teammates who always get along — well, almost always.

There was a day last season in the minor leagues when the pitcher and catcher got into a fight right in the middle of a game.

"We did," Collins confessed.

What happened?

"You’ve got a guy who’s 6-7 throwing 98 on the mound, so obviously it’s not easy to catch," Collins explained. "I wasn’t having a great day. I’m just letting balls go by, running back for every pitch that he throws, which is causing runs to score, obviously hurting his ERA. He got mad, I got mad, we got into it.  And we all ended up friends at the end of it."

Where did the fight happen?

"In the dugout," Collins said. "It happens, you know?"

"We're both competitive guys," Hansen said. "It's all good. It kind of builds our relationship."

For more on the fight — starting at the 12:40 mark — plus Hansen's hopes for 2017, why he went off social media, why Eloy Jimenez is addicted to Taco Bell, Yoan Moncada's funny moment at SoxFest and more, listen to the latest episode of the White Sox Talk Podcast.

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