Met "The Pope," Donn Pall, the former Sox reliever, the other day. Talked about my favorite White Sox team of all time (the 1990 team) a bit. Looks and sounds the same. Really great guy and was always one of my favorite players.

How do you like that team better than 2005 team? That's kind of ridiculous.

1) You like Sosa? The White Sox Sosa? Really?
2) Scott Fletcher -- we all love him, don't we.
3) Remember when Craig Grebeck hit .158? I do, it was 1990.
4) Scott Radinsky was your setup guy and he sucked -- yes, sorry about the cancer later, and I like him as a person, but he was not good
5) Hibbert and McDowell were pretty good as well as Thigpen, and you had Thomas debut, so I'll give you that.

I'm glad that you don't have any new favorite players going forward.

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6) Last season at Old Comiskey

Plus, the team team had sucked since 1983 and all the young talent that was on the roster made it all exciting.

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I got to work with kenny patterson for a year. Nice enough guy but I think grey goose had him on their distribution route. He was generally cool to be around while also making my job a nightmare to execute at the same time.

I always wanted to work with Radinsky. Dude was a solid reliever while also being a standout singer in a punk band. Pulley and Ten Foot Pole are both legit as hell. This is no jack mcdowell bullshit.

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Dunno, few errors, played hard and won ninety games. What wasn't to love?

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Didn’t he have a short stint with the cubs?

Why the nickname pope?

Because he raped kids.


Former esteemed board member RPB is distantly related to Donn.

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Mercy! Don't think I've heard this name in 30 years.

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GO BEARS!!!

I thought Barry Jones was the setup man.
Didn't Grebeck have something like 120 AB that season? Not sure that's a representative sample of his career.

If 2005 never happened, the 1990 team would probably be my favorite as well. As a result of that season, I hate the A's even to this day. As for Pall, if memory serves me correctly, he has some sort of connection with Evergreen Park or is from the south side, right?

That insult is kind of out of left field, but I agree that RPB is a bit of a douche.

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Outstanding!

Bibgo.

Bibgo (once again).

That he was. Right from EP, EPHS, U of I, a Sox fan...he had a good season. Barry Jones started well but became eminently hittable after mid-July. KP was good. Rad was a rookie and looked it, but was valuable. Wayne Edwards had a good season, too. Good relief crew. Decent starters, too. Greg Hibbard and Jack McDowell had pretty decent years, and it's too bad Eric King got injured. Shoulda brang up Frank with Robin, at the beginning.

The '90 Sox also invented throwback uniforms and turn-back-the-clock day.

I tried to (I did, actually) write a book-length memoir about that year of my life, but there was just no narrative arc, and I wasn't going to lie. Still a period of my life I like to think about from time to time. That was a great team--I saw so many games that year as I was out of college and working in Bridgeport.

It's too bad about the narrative arc, but I think that's the story--there was no arc, ever, until my late 40s.

I like the way you think.

Yep....same.

I love the A's because my dad took me and my cousin to a doubleheader one day and we ate at Uno's afterwards and it was probably the best day a 9 year old ever had.

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I'm really starting to wonder if there was a difference between rooting for the St. Louis Browns and the Sox?

Damn that hurt...

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It's been way too close at times.

Yep. I agree. That 1990 team was my favorite as well. Cuz I was a kid. I know we won the World Series in 2005. But I wasn't a kid when that happened. Although I loved it. But you love sports things more when you're a kid. I was too young to remember 1983. So this was the first year where my team was good.

We were in the AL West in 1990. Only 2 divisions back then. No wild card. Oakland A's were awesome. And we lost. I want to say we won 92 or 93 that year. The A's were near 100.

Sometimes you try too hard, Franklin.

This would be one of those times.

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Donn Pall married the daughter of a family friend (and coworkers).

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