Frank Castillo

[Chuck to Chuck]

Didn't have a catchy headline other than something about drowning franks in ketchup that was awful awful.

44 years old.

He pitched the first Cubs game I ever saw with my wife.  And lost.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-former-cubs-pitcher-castillo-drowns-20130729,0,3684753.story

[Bonk]

As bad as he was with the Cubs, who knew he had a killer sinker?

[Saul Goodman]

As bad as he was with the Cubs, who knew he had a killer sinker?

Alternate: Frank Castillo's Stuff Has Got A Lot of Sink.

[Quality Start Machine]

Epsink is terrible.

while reading about Castillo, I found out George Scott, one of the great badass AL helmet-wearing first basemen of the 70s, also left us.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Frank Castillo...

...was the surprise "#3 Starter" as a rookie in '92, the year Maddux won the Cy Young and then LEFT US (Mike Morgan being #2)...
...was a horrible hitter--even for a pitcher--but won a car from Brian McRae when he homered in BP in 1997...shortly before being dealt to Colorado.
...had a smoking hot wife, IIRC.

I was in attendance in 1995 when his no-hit bid was spoiled with 2 outs in the 9th by Bernard Gilkey of St. Louis, making Castillo the third Cub pitcher after Chuck Rainey ('83...Eddie Milner...Johnny Bench's last game at Wrigley) and Jose Guzman ('93...Otix Nixon) to go 8 2/3 no-hit at Wrigley and get it spoiled.

And unlike Chuck, it wasn't sensitivity that would've kept me from offering up something clever as a title, it's that there was nothing clever that I could otherwise associate with Frank Castillo.  The things above are the first things that spring to mind, and none of those would've been worth the effort to envelop into a title.

I'll only add that this makes 3 starters on the mid-90's Cub who have left us, the others being Kevin Foster and G(J?)eremi Gonzalez.  You better watch your ass, Jim Bullinger.

[CT III]

Is Huey confessing?  Ken Bottenfield better stay clear of the Granville stop.

[morpheus]

Who could forget Frank's performance with the Grizz?

[Slaky]

Good point by PANK: Frank Castillo's wife was definitely a thing I was into back when he was a Cub/Not Fish Food.

She was smoking hot.

[Chuck to Chuck]

And unlike Chuck, it wasn't sensitivity that would've kept me from offering up something clever as a title, it's that there was nothing clever that I could otherwise associate with Frank Castillo.

Ummm..... Sensitivity?

[Internet Apex]

Frank Castillo...

...was the surprise "#3 Starter" as a rookie in '92, the year Maddux won the Cy Young and then LEFT US (Mike Morgan being #2)...
...was a horrible hitter--even for a pitcher--but won a car from Brian McRae when he homered in BP in 1997...shortly before being dealt to Colorado.
...had a smoking hot wife, IIRC.

I was in attendance in 1995 when his no-hit bid was spoiled with 2 outs in the 9th by Bernard Gilkey of St. Louis, making Castillo the third Cub pitcher after Chuck Rainey ('83...Eddie Milner...Johnny Bench's last game at Wrigley) and Jose Guzman ('93...Otix Nixon) to go 8 2/3 no-hit at Wrigley and get it spoiled.

And unlike Chuck, it wasn't sensitivity that would've kept me from offering up something clever as a title, it's that there was nothing clever that I could otherwise associate with Frank Castillo.  The things above are the first things that spring to mind, and none of those would've been worth the effort to envelop into a title.

I'll only add that this makes 3 starters on the mid-90's Cub who have left us, the others being Kevin Foster and G(J?)eremi Gonzalez.  You better watch your ass, Jim Bullinger.

I came home tripping on mushrooms to find my pissed-off father watching Frank's no-hit bid. I guess he and my mom had a fight or something or maybe he could tell I was as high as a Georgia pine. Anyway, my dad was such a dick that night and I hated Frank Castillo so much that I went downstairs and hoped his no-hitter would get broken up. When it did, I felt an odd sense of relief. I did not want him to die though. This sucks.

EDIT: Looking back at his stats I think it's possible that I didn't start hating Castillo until 1996 when he led the league in losses with 16. And maybe I wasn't even rooting against his no-hitter but have often since thought about that night and him with enough disdain to believe that I didn't want it to happen.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

And unlike Chuck, it wasn't sensitivity that would've kept me from offering up something clever as a title, it's that there was nothing clever that I could otherwise associate with Frank Castillo.

Ummm..... Sensitivity?

Yeah I mis-read.  Call it a default FYC setting.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

And unlike Chuck, it wasn't sensitivity that would've kept me from offering up something clever as a title, it's that there was nothing clever that I could otherwise associate with Frank Castillo.

Ummm..... Sensitivity?

Yeah I mis-read.  Call it a default FYC setting.

The important thing is that not having a good title didn't stop Chuck from starting the thread.

Fuck you, Chuck!