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To dream the impossible dream...

Also have to give Fedde credit for hanging in there.

It's not often you win a game getting only three hits but they found a way. Big win given that Cleveland already leads K.C. 2-0.

Just FYI, I was responding to the poster who said he should be released. He shouldn't have been acquired in the first place, of course, but regardless of if you agree with that or not JR wouldn't let them do that. And I agree with you in the sense that you don't get a guy like this only to release him after five starts. The question is, if he keeps stinking up the place, when do the Sox let him go?

MLB.com had a listing of some of the possible free agents for next season: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-players-with-opt-out-clauses-player-options-club-options-for-2027

I agree but JR isn't going to sign off on paying him a shitload of money to not work.

That decision isn't looking very good right now is it?

Five factoids today: August 29, 1915 - Sox pitcher Jim Scott fired a 5-0 shutout over the Philadelphia A’s... and he did it in only 68 minutes!! It’s the fastest game ever played in team annals. He allowed three hits and struck out six. Scott won 24 games that year. August 29, 1965 - In a double header at Comiskey Park, Sox shortstop Ron Hansen set the Major League record when he handled 29 chances. Boston provided the opposition. The Sox won both games 3-2, with game one going 14 innings. Hansen had 19 chances in game one, also a Major League record for an extra inning game, and 10 in game two. August 29, 1975 - Outfielder Ken Henderson became the first Sox player to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same game. Ross Grimsley and Wayne Garland were the victims at Baltimore in a game the Sox would win 4-2. Both the home runs were solo shots in the first and eighth innings. August 29, 1991 - At 43 years, eight months and three days old, White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk became the oldest player in the 20th Century to hit two home runs in one game. Fisk’s blasts help fuel Jack McDowell’s complete game win over Cleveland, 7-2, he drove in four RBI’s. Fisk would break his own record by clubbing two homers towards the end of the season, on October 3, against Minnesota. August 29, 2010 – The “Big Hurt” Frank Thomas, the greatest player in franchise history, had his #35 retired in a ceremony at U.S. Cellular Field. Thomas played 16 years with the White Sox and is the franchise leader in most hitting categories. The five-time All-Star and Hall of Famer won a batting title with the Sox, four Silver Slugger awards and was the only player in history to hit at least .300 with at least 20 home runs, 100 RBI’s, 100 walks and 100 runs scored in his first seven seasons. He’d have a statue of himself unveiled at the stadium in 2011.

Castillo hasn't pitched well in four of his five Sox starts, that's 80%. That's a losing proposition. Maybe the Sox will get lucky and he'll retire after the season.

Give them credit for finding ways to win. A new season high eight games over. However Castillo is a disaster plain and simple. Bullpen saved their ass again tonight.

I hope the last three games won't be a factor and the Sox will have a chance to line up their pitching the way they want it. Remember how 2008 turned out?

Six factoids today: August 28, 1909 – In the second inning of the opener of a doubleheader at South Side Park, Washington’s William “Dolly” Gray set two Major League records against the White Sox. He walked eight batters in the inning, seven of them consecutive. Pat “Patsy” Dougherty led off the inning with a single, and #5 hitter Frank Isbell either sacrificed Doughtery to second or made an out (a play-by-play for the game isn’t available). And then, the parade of walks — from #6 hitter Lee Tannehill all the way back through the order to Doughtery began. The White Sox scored six in the inning, all driven in with walks. The second time Doughtery went to bat, with six straight walks already in the books, White Sox manager Billy Sullivan suggested Doughtery leave his bat in the dugout. The White Sox won, 6-4, with only Doughtery’s single hit. Gray’s one-hitter came with 11 total walks for the afternoon. The White Sox also won the nightcap, 2-1, walking just twice. August 28, 1938 – It was the most grueling stretch of baseball ever in Major League history. A series of rain outs forced the White Sox to play six consecutive double headers on six consecutive days from August 23 through August 28. They played four games against the Yankees in two days, six games against the Red Sox in three days and two games against the Athletics. All were on the road. For the month the White Sox had to play 13 double headers! Despite the incredible stretch of games, they finished the month with a record of 16-22 which really wasn’t that bad. August 28, 1960 - Of all the crazy games and things that have happened when the Sox played at Baltimore, this one topped the list. The Sox started the day two and a half games behind the Yankees and trailed the O’s 3-0 going into the eighth inning. With two out, Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox and Roy Sievers ripped consecutive singles, scoring a run and putting the tying runs on base. Manager Al Lopez called on Ted Kluszewski to pinch hit. “Big Klu” drilled the pitch from Milt Pappas into the right field stands for an apparent three run homer except for one small thing… Third base umpire Ed Hurley called time! Nobody remembered seeing him do it but he refused to change his call. Fox was ejected in the confrontation afterwards and Lopez played the game under protest. Hurley called time right before the pitch to tell Sox players Floyd Robinson and Earl Torgeson that they were warming up in the wrong area. The next day Hurley was quoted in the newspapers as saying "I wish to heck I hadn’t called it; I’d gladly take it back.” End result was the Sox lost 3-1, and were now three games behind the Yankees. Kluszewski later recalled that this game was the one that broke the team’s spirit that season. August 28, 1983 - Greg Luzinski completed his ‘downtown triple crown’ by blasting a pitch from Boston’s Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd over the roof in left center field in the first inning. It was Luzinski’s third roof shot in 1983 the others came versus the Twins and Yankees. Greg would have four roof top home runs in his White Sox career. The Sox took care of Boston on this afternoon 6-2 before over 33-thousand fans. August 28, 1990 - Frank Thomas, who would become the White Sox all-time home run leader, belted his first big league round tripper. Thomas connected in the ninth inning of a game at the Metrodome off the Twins Gary Wayne. The Sox would lose that day 12-6. Thomas had 448 home runs in a Sox uniform. August 28, 1998 - The Sox and Rangers combined for 14 home runs in a double header at Comiskey Park, tying the American League mark. The teams hit seven in the first game, seven in the second. Texas and the Sox split the two games on the day.

Since #21 was brought up here are some of the best to wear that number for the Sox: Gerry Staley, Ray Herbert, George Bell, Esteban Loaiza, Todd Frazier. Sosa by the way wore #25.

#1 is more realistic given the parameters JR insist on forcing his organization to abide by regarding pitchers. It is what it is - Kenny Williams.

https://www.mlb.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-gifted-pope-hat-from-white-sox-giveaway

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-conversations-about-munetaka-murakami-extension

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-cba-proposal-roster-stability

The division they are in has something to do with it.

Hope they can get to Kremer this time.

“These guys are running on fumes,” said manager Will Venable. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/08/26/jonathan-cannon-white-sox-pitching-staff-touting-an-overhauled-arsenal-jake-burger-tristan-peters-franchise-record-davis-martin-kyle-teel

Five factoids today: August 27, 1910 - Comiskey Park hosted the first twilight game ever played in a Major League stadium as two Chicago amateur clubs played before 3,500 fans. The teams were Logan Square and Rogers Park. 20 arc lights were strung up along the perimeter of the field to accomplish it delivering 137,000 thousand candlepower of light. Nine of the 20 lamps were placed on the grandstand roofs: five on the first base side, and four behind third base. Two lamps were on the ground near both the first-and third-base foul lines. Six lamps lined the outfield grass, two behind each fielder. To alleviate the glare – a problem that had adversely affected most previous efforts to play night baseball – twin poles were placed in front of each lamp and black canvas screens added to help better direct the light. The system was the brainchild of inventor George F. Cahill. The first official night game in Major League history took place in 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The Logan Square club was managed by former White Sox star James “Nixey” Callahan while the Rogers Park team was led by former Cubs outfielder Jimmy Ryan. Logan Square would win the game 3-0 as George “Big Bane” Hanson a veteran of Chicago’s semi-pro leagues, got the win. He scattered four hits and struck out eight in the game which lasted an hour and fifteen minutes. August 27, 1911 – “Big” Ed Walsh fired a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Comiskey Park. It was the first time a Sox pitcher threw a no-hitter in that stadium. The final was 5-0. Walsh only allowed one base runner, Clyde Engle in the fourth inning, via a walk. He struck out eight in winning his 24th game of the year. August 27, 2007 - In the midst of a dismal season the Sox produced one highlight. They cranked out four home runs in the seventh inning of a game at U.S. Cellular Field and beat the Devil Rays 5-4. The home runs were hit by A.J. Pierzynski, Jermaine Dye, Juan Uribe and Josh Fields. Pierzynski, Dye and Uribe went back-to-back-to-back. August 27, 2021 – It was one of the wildest games the Sox ever played especially in their series against the Cubs as they came from six runs down to beat them 17-13 at Guaranteed Rate Field. The Sox trailed 6-0 after a half inning as starter Dallas Keuchel got lit up by the North Siders but then the Sox scored nine unanswered runs to grab a lead that they never lost. Catcher Yasmani Grandal, fresh off the injured list that he went on in early July with a torn knee tendon, drove in a franchise tying eight RBI’s on the night. Grandal had a pair of three run home runs and a two-run double. He went 4 for 6 with two runs scored. Also of note in the game was the relief work by pitcher Reynaldo Lopez. He came on replacing Keuchel in the second inning and retired 15 straight Cubs striking out seven. He became the first Sox relief pitcher to retire 15 in a row since Ed Cicotte in 1917! August 27, 2025 – This is one situation you never want to see happen. With the White Sox getting hammered by the Royals at Rate Field, the final score would be 12-1, Korey Lee came in to pitch the final two innings giving up a run. Lee had been inserted into the game earlier to catch. He became only the third Sox player to ever pitch and catch in the same game joining Frank Isbell and Sam Mertes, who both did some catching and pitching in the second game of a September 28, 1902, doubleheader.

Money that could have been earned through ticket sales, parking, concessions, merchandise and advertising. Remember we are talking about JR here and what matters most to him are finances. No games played means he can't MAKE money. Plus if there is a long impasse or God forbid basically no season, teams won't be allowed to do anything anyway as long as an agreement isn't reached.

Twins just lost to the A's.