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Castillo apparently said he was coming off a shoulder injury when he was first traded to the Mariners and the changeup wasn’t quite right at the time. The Mariners then had him focus on the slider being he his key secondary as the org prioritizes that pitch and he never really went back to his previous changeup usage. Given this info, there is a reason to believe the nasty changeup is still there and can be ramped up as we saw last night. If so, this could be a far more impactful trade than many of us were thinking (including myself). I still like on paper we lost from a value standpoint, but if the dude produces like a #2 or #3 SP down the stretch and into next year then none of that matters and this will be a win for us.

lol…now you’re upset because they made a lot of money and actually spent it on things that give them joy. You truly are a snowflake.

Fegan is a writer through & through and he’s not naturally a great podcaster (although I still enjoy him in that forum).

Better strikeout call: he gawn or yeeeeahhh buddy!

Doesn’t surprise me. I honestly thought he never really completely jived with those guys anyway. Maybe their recent new partnership with foul territory has something to do with it? Probably got a new gig elsewhere though I think I’d be surprised if it was the athletic given how unstable they can be One thing Fegan needs to work on is not being almost completely silent at times when he’s giving a thought. Sometimes I can barely hear him complete one.

You have to hope that our catchers contain the balls in front of them. They let too many get past them.

The Guggenheim/Dodgers and Fenway Sports groups are much bigger and better examples. Better to run the Bulls AND Sox as a business, where profitability always comes second to championships? Are you also fighting Jeffrey Bezos on his new 30% stake in Liverpool, or Mark Zuckerberg’s super yacht repeatedly ignoring sos calls near Alaska? Trump’s son in law’s brother Josh Kushner couldn’t buy FIFA/Word Cup last week, só now he and former Disney head Bob Iger laid out $12.5 billion for the Lakers barely a year after Mark Walter/Dodgers bought them for just $10 billion, a cap gain much bigger than the entire value of the White Sox franchise. There’s no such thing as a Bill Veeck mom and pop operation any more in sports. Even the Indiana Hoosiers football team costs $50-60 million per year now.

UWMC is 85-90% Mat The two brothers have also made over $6 billion alone in cash dividends that are separate from tumbling share prices over the last five years. Justin is much smarter than his brother.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/13/2026 https://www.mlb.com/milb/scores/all/all/whitesox?affiliateId=mlbcom-milb

It would be like losing a big fat carp on your fishing line in the Des Plaines River. Disappointing at first, but you would realize you couldn’t have eaten it anyways so it would have been all for show. 🤣

Mat and Justin share so much in common - shameless displays of personal wealth, the most expensive homes in Illinois and Michigan and ownership of pro teams as a hobby. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-nba-team-owner-razing-192014010.html

I got a good deal on it, but ‘nuff said… StreamableWatch Golden Tee GO PGA Tour | StreamableWatch "Golden Tee GO PGA Tour" on Streamable.

Do you know how many HRs have been hit in McCovey cove at Oracle this season? One. Anyway, the Chicago River is not a Bay and looks nothing like it. Instead it is a silty murky mostly stagnant canal that periodically gets controlled sewage overflow. The Canal is host to invasive species. Wrigley does fine without "skyline view, riverwalk/water taxis, proximity to downtown." Sox need a winning team, not a new stadium that is more inconvenient for many fans to get to. "If they really do have the money and land to put in a retractable roof on a stadium there" Not sure how any baseball stadium let alone a retractable dome (700 ft diam. just for the footprint) would fit within the latest approved TIF plan. (i.e., between 14th st. and 15th st. and between the LaSalle St. extension and Wells.) Money? I think Ishbia family wealth (Mat and Justin) is largely contingent on United Wholesale Mortgage, which hasn't been doing well. Anyway 77.. I am focused on this season and this team, but I admit to being amused by your imagination.

Ahhh, that’s right, it was Jim Margalus! Too many damn J’s. Quite honestly, I thought J. Fox and J. Margulas were WAY better than J. Fegan in that pod. Just my opinion… Thanks for sharing the pod. In any case, it’s still better White Sox talk than you can get anywhere else.

Speaking of financial chicanery...Dodgers' owner and holder of the Lakers for just long enough to make $2.5 billion off the sale Mark Walter in hot water as well https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/mark-walter-investigation-explained-the-timing-of-the-lakers-125-billion-sale-cant-be-ignored-014119218.html "At issue are those two insurance companies, Delaware Life and Clear Spring. According to the Los Angeles Times, an internal whistleblower at Guggenheim filed a complaint questioning how Guggenheim booked revenues associated with those insurers. Again, it's not inherently a problem when companies with a shared co-owner make a deal together, but it can be a problem if — and we are using one of the most extreme possible examples here — a company does something like what Enron infamously did and hides its financials woes from investors by unloading debts into seemingly separate entities that were actually controlled by its chief financial officer. In this case, Bloomberg reports Delaware Life told regulators in June 2025 that it had only $1.4 billion in affiliated investments, representing 3% of its portfolio, and it turned out that number was more along the lines of at least $17 billion in loans (39%) that had been passed through a third party." before being received by Walter's other companies.

I think it's more an erudite need to craft the perfect, sarcastic sentence. I find both Jim and James a bit forced, but they've provided the most thorough coverage of White Sox baseball, along-side James and Ian of FutureSox. There was a time 40 years ago I'd look up the Boston Globe online to read Peter Gammons' column for any mention of the White Sox. If James is going back to the Athletic, the more power to him, and us.

On the reddit thread referenced a podcast where he gave a long winding answer that left the other two hosts befuddled/annoyed, with nothing left to say about the topic.

Mune for Japanese/Asian/worldwide consumption

Good win. We face another lefty tomorrow but if we can win then we are guaranteed first no matter what after the Tigers series

Sorry, I really didn’t mean it to sound negative. I meant because you obviously watch the pods with Fegan more often than me that you would have a more educated opinion on him. I just watched the most recent pod with James and Fegan and some other dude (can’t remember his name) that you shared, and Fegan struggled to get his point across and was involuntarily/sarcastically laughing at most of the questions. Both James’es know way more about baseball than Our Chuck, but Fegan would also be terrible in Our Chuck’s current role. Strange cadence is spot on. I assume it is nervousness.

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Dodgers' fans aren't going to trade arguably the greatest player in modern baseball history (making $46 million inflation adjusted) for anyone. Payroll is meaningless right now anyway. (Although I'm sure most would like to launch Kyle Tucker to the moon.) And the MVP Award won't be based on a salary/value comparison, either.

out of a .... missile/rocket launcher

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Catching up on this thread. Bet they know they will need a long man tomorrow. Castillo was superb tonight in the highlights I saw. This thread tonight is, um, odd.