Paul Castiglione

Attorney. Pulling hard for democracy, fair play and the White Sox. All views expressed here are my own.

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@Noahp245 A healthy Shane Smith and a healthy Tanner McDougal would be huge for the Sox.

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@ChiSoxFanMike The Sox have Benintendi and Grichuk at DH. Both can play OF. They have Acuña who can play CF. So, that’s six outfielders. This all points to sending Junior Pérez to AAA when Mune comes back. Having quality depth on the big league roster is a plus. Keeps everyone fresh.

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@MarkGabriele22 @jonfavs You don’t realize that you mixed up two guys with the same name, do you?

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@BarbMcQuade @tigers That’s fair but rosters won’t be static. Sox will get Munetaka Murakami back, have pitchers Noah Schultz and others in the minors and they likely deal for pitching at the deadline. In terms of run differential, the Sox are a moving target.

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@courtney883 Only 1 game behind Cleveland in the loss column.

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@courtney883 They haven’t left yet. If this process was a ballgame, we’d probably be somewhere around the 4th inning. Long way to go.

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@JonHeyman @BBGreatMoments 2/2 winners in Gaylord Perry and Mike McCormick. Both catchers (Ed Bailey and Tom Haller) hit a ton. That was probably Willie Mays’ best Giants team and as the teacher (Richard Benjamin) in “The Steagle” persuasively argued, Mays should have been the NL MVP.

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@JonHeyman @BBGreatMoments 1/2 How about the 1962 Giants? That was one of the best teams ever. Five HOFers: Mays, McCovery, Cepeda, G. Perry, Marichal, a near HOFer in Billy Pierce and a starting quartet that was brilliant that year (Pierce, Billy O’Dell, Jack Sanford and Marichal). Two future Cy Young

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@DaveGallagher22 And I listened to the entire game on the radio. It was great.

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@DaveGallagher22 Blue Moon’s last MLB win was for the White Sox against his original team, the A’s. And that’s not all. It was a combined no-hitter. Odom threw five innings and the late Francisco Barrios threw the last four. It was also one of the wildest no-hitters ever. They walked 11, I think.

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@courtney883 Nothing better.

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@BarbMcQuade @tigers @freep It would sting any team to have trade a pitcher as good as Tarik Skubal for financial reasons. That said, the Tigers could set themselves up for the future if they get the right package back. The Dodgers have an excellent farm system, one that the Tigers are no doubt scouting.

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@courtney883 Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I’m barely old enough to remember 1970 but I do remember how bad that was. 2024 was way worse. Don’t know how we got through it.

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@JB_Summers @foxnewspolitics If the “Catholic left” are not Catholics, then the Catholic right is not a religious group at all. By virtue of what you said, the “Catholic right” is a political movement and nothing more.

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@courtney883 I mean, seriously, the Sox are one of the best stories in all of MLB. Reticence from from Chicago establishments to put the Sox game on is hard to understand.

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@RachelBitecofer Do you think that either McMorrow or Stevens needs to get out of this race?

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@NormOrnstein There is a wonderful scene in “Elmer Gantry” when Babbitt (Edward Andrews) spouts anti-Catholic bigotry common in the ‘20s. Rev. Pengilly (John McIntire) listened to as much as he could and then said, “not a word, Mr. Babbitt, don’t speak another word.”

This feels like that.

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@courtney883 Just looked it up. Bobby Cox has the all time record for managerial ejections with 162, 41 more than the 2nd place guy, John McGraw. Cox was fiery and did get tossed a lot.

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@WeinoChi Maybe that’s the trade: Acuña for Alek Thomas. For AZ, Acuña could be IF/OF/bench guy and pinch runner. And Maybe Thomas gets a change of scenery here.

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@RachelBitecofer I don’t buy it. When we get to the Michigan Democratic primary - - and that’s in August - - either Stevens or McMorrow will have broken through and distanced themselves. The polling seems to indicate that El-Sayed has a ceiling, much like Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois 8.