(670 The Score) The viral sensation of the White Sox’s wild 12-6 win against the Astros in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Sunday turned out to be “Cane Guy.”
With the White Sox facing a 5-1 deficit early on, longtime season-ticket holder Rob Holt, 71, landed on the television broadcast while pointing his cane – which he has been using lately after spraining his knee while playing with his three-year-old grandson – toward the field of play as he magically attempted to bestow powers on players in key moments. Soon enough, whatever Holt was asking for – a hit to left field here, a ball in the gap there, a big out – was happening, so he kept pointing his cane and kept landing on the television broadcast.
“It does two things,” Holt said of his cane. “One, I simply tell the batter, ‘You have the power, hit it to the gap. You have the power, put it in play.’ Then when I switch the cane around so the handle is facing the Astros and I spin it, I just simply say, ‘You are weak, you’ll never get on base.’”
A Northbrook resident, Holt joined the Parkins & Spiegel Show on Monday to discuss the silliness and his 15 minutes of fame, which figure to get extended a little longer as the White Sox have set him up with tickets to Game 4. Listen to his interview below. It starts around the 18:25 mark.
Holt originally got his cane in northern Wisconsin after getting a “new ankle, a replacement ankle.”
The White Sox trail 2-1 in the best-of-five series. Game 4 is Tuesday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field after rained pushed it back a day.