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• White Sox Minor League Recap: April 13, 2025

Caleb Bonemer mashed his first pro home run in the 8-7 Ballers win over the Lynchburg Hillcats. | Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The South Side farm system bounced back on Sunday to win three of four The White Sox minor league system fared much better than Saturday, winning three out of four games — the only loss coming from the Charlotte Knights. Jacksonville Jumbo Shri...2025
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• White Sox Weekly Minor League Update: April 7-13, 2025

Hidden gem: Tim Elko caught fire despite Charlotte’s 0-6 week. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights The Barons and Cannon Ballers took steps in the right direction. As for the Knights and Dash, not so much Charlotte Knights Record 0-6 (last week), 6-9 (overall) Knights Player of the Week Tim Elko .412/.412/.529, 17 at-bats Bobby Dalbec .273/.273/.727, 11 at-batsColson Montgomery .167/.211/.333,...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 12, 2025

Jordan Sprinkle, hitting .529 in the early going, has offered a serious objection to being sent back to Low-A to start 2025. | Kannapolis Cannon Ballers EIGHT games — and six losses All right, I can’t put this puppy off any longer, here we go with a truly Old School, eight-game minors update. How can this be, Brett, as the rookie leagues are not playing and Great Falls is now an independen...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 11, 2025

Grant Taylor was boffo in his mini-start on Friday, throwing three scoreless. | Parker Freedman/Minor League Baseball via Getty Images The Barons triumph, while the other three affiliates get rained out Charlotte Knights vs Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp - Game was postponed to a doubleheader on Saturday Birmingham Barons 4, Chattanooga Lookouts 1 (11 innings) (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Birm...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 10, 2025

Murphy the bat dog steals the show in Winston-Salem. | Winston-Salem Dash/Instagram Shrimp boil the Knights, Hoppers bug the Dash, and Ballers blast the Cats as affiliates go 1-2 with Barons rained out Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 8, Charlotte Knights 5 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Nick Nastrini made his third start of the 2025 season, and while it was an improvement over his first two outin...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 9, 2025

Providing relief: Jared Shuster had a terrific outing, striking out five during 2 2⁄3 shutout innings. | Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The system went 1-3, with Kannapolis collecting the sole victory Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 2, Charlotte Knights 1 (Gameday Box) (Statcast Box) The Knights offense finally showed some life down the stretch, but it was too little, to...2025
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Smokies Rally to beat Barons, 6-4

Ethan Hearn | MANDATORY CREDIT: Austin Hough / South Bend Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK The Smokies rally to win with three runs in the ninth. The Pelicans go to 2-0. The Iowa Cubs placed right-hander Caleb Kilian on the injured list. Right-hander Connor Noland was activated off the developmental list. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were rained out in Indianapolis today. The game will not be made...2025
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• 2025 Birmingham Barons Preview

No. 1 White Sox prospect Noah Schultz is the ace of a loaded Barons starting rotation that begins 2025. | Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Double-A affiliate is set to have a filthy starting rotation, and plenty of offensive talent to back it up The Birmingham Barons are coming off of a fantastic 2024 season that ended in winning the Southern League Championship. While several pl...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: SunTrust Park opens with an exhibition game between the Braves and Yankees

Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1958 - The Milwaukee Braves acquire veteran Dick Littlefield from the Chicago Cubs for cash. 1959 - The Milwaukee Braves acquire catcher Stan Lopata, shortstop Ted Kazanski and infielder Johnny O’Brien from the Phillies in exchange for pitcher Gene Conley and infielders Joe Koppe and Harry Hanebrink. 1962 - The...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 8: Mason Adams

Few White Sox pitching prospects impressed as much as Mason Adams in 2024. | Birmingham Barons Although his immediate future is cloudy, this righty was mighty impressive in 2024 Mason Adams Right-Handed Starting Pitcher6´0´´200 poundsAge: 252023 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 862024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 352024 High Level Charlotte (AAA)Age relative to high level -3.0 ye...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 12: Brooks Baldwin

Hey, at least according to our South Side Sox Top Prospect Vote this year, Brooks Baldwin is our Shohei Ohtani. | Aryanna Frank/MLB Photos via Getty Images A “Ben Zobrist” player who’s proven VERY popular with our readership Brooks Baldwin Shortstop6´0´´175 poundsAge: 242023 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 752024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 272024 High Level Chicago (MLB)Age re...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Guardians

Mason Adams takes the hill for his second appearance of the spring. | David Durochiki/Diamond Images via Getty Images It’s an AL Central matchup in the desert Happy Sunday! Today is a special day because not only is it Daylight Savings, but it feels like spring outside, too. What better than baseball on a day like today, as the 4-10 Chicago White Sox will take on the 5-8 Cleveland Guardian...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: February 13

About 16 months after throwing out the first pitch at ALDS Game 1 in 2016, longtime veteran Tito Francona passed away. | Jason Miller/Getty Images Farewell, Tito 1968 The White Sox traded shortstop Ron Hansen and pitchers Dennis Higgins and Steve Jones to Washington for infielder Tim Cullen and pitchers Bob Priddy and Buster Narum. (On August 2, the Senators would flip Hansen back to the W...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, February 7

It’s Juan Pizarro’s birthday | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Some notable Cubs were born, a couple of Hall-of-Famers pass, and other stories for the discerning reader. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric lo...2025
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• You miss baseball? The wait is almost over!

The action starts soon! Opening Day is March 27! | Melissa Sage-Bollenbach/South Side Sox Hold on to your hats because the 2025 season starts in just 50 days With Opening Day just 50 days away, a glimmer of hope shines through this mid-week hump day. As a Sox fan, the start of a new season can be a bittersweet time – a reminder of the past few years’ struggles alongside the promise of a f...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 54: Shawn Goosenberg

Shawn Goosenberg has been a superutilityman over four years in the White Sox system, playing everywhere on the diamond but center field and catcher. | Winston-Salem Dash This versatile performer will need to rediscover his stroke on offense against the challenge of Double-A pitching Shawn Goosenberg First Baseman6´0´´195 poundsAge: 252022 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 712023 South Si...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 25: Wilfred Veras

Don’t turn your back on Wilfred Veras — he’s still a potent prospect with considerable upside. | Birmingham Barons You won’t find a better “lost” year on the White Sox docket — but where can the slugger take it from here? Wilfred VerasRight Fielder6´2´´180 poundsAge: 222022 South Side Sox Top 100 Prospect Ranking 232023 South Side Sox Top 100 Prospect Ranking 202024 South Side Sox Top 100 ...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 12, 2024

Have a day, Edgar Quero! The organization’s top catching prospect had a lot to smile about after a two-homer game. | Salina Rae Silver / South Side Sox Edgar Quero belts two longballs while Colson Montgomery launches his first homer at the Triple-A level Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 7, Charlotte Knights 5 (Gameday Score) (Statcast Box)Colson, Chuckie, and Danny went yard in Charlotte’s two-r...2024
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"The Birmingham Barons (Double-A) captured the Southern League Championship in 2023."

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"590 slash line since unexpectedly breaking camp with the Double-A Birmingham Barons."

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"(22-42) Birmingham Barons 5, (31-32) Mississippi Braves 2 Jesse Franklin V 0-4, 3 K Drew Campbell 3-4, 1 RBI, 1 K Alan Rangel, SP, 5 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 4 K Despite picking up seven hits, five Braves batters went hitless, and they only were able to scratch across two runs."

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"com/nvA1EV7bSk— Birmingham Barons (@BhamBarons) August 15, 2022 Oscar Colás homered as well, his ninth."

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"A former Birmingham Barons bat boy has filed a civil lawsuit against longtime major league player Omar Vizquel, accusing him of sexual harassment while he was managing the Chicago White Sox minor league affiliate."

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"His Airness traded a Bulls jersey for a Birmingham Barons uniform in 1994"

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"Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons, the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox."

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"— Birmingham Barons shortstop Eddy Alvarez has a "hidden secret."

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"" In roughly the year leading up to his return, Jordan had really only played pickup basketball with his teammates on the Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team."

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"A new stadium has lured the Class AA Birmingham Barons back from the suburbs, as well as the author’s mother-in-law, an old fan of her hometown team."

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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Opening night

Matt Halbach | Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times / USA TODAY NETWORK Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And sometimes it rains. Especially in Indianapolis in the summertime. OK, spring. Welcome to the official start of the Minor League Wrap! In case you’re new, every night I recap the top four minor league affiliates. I try to blend giving you the story of the game and getting you the stats...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: SunTrust Park opens with an exhibition game between the Braves and Yankees
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• White Sox trim roster, announce Spring Breakout players, and shares sell to Justin Ishbia

It seems the wheels have been set in motion for Justin Ishbia to eventually take over the reins of the Chicago White Sox. | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Our Thursday roundup looks at Chicago’s roster cuts, rising stars, and ownership moves Welcome to News Dump Thursday! We’ve got several updates for you, including the first roster moves of spring, the announcement of Spring Breakout playe...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 14: Ky Bush

As it turns out, we’ll lose a year from Ky Bush just as he was turning a corner. | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images It’s the rare starter who can navigate a career without TJS, and this spring it was this southpaw who got stung Ky Bush6´6´´250 poundsAge: 252024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 112024 High Level Chicago (MLB)Age relative to high level -5.0 yearsSSS rank among all left-hand...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 8, 2025

Riley Gowens shined in his first start as Barons top the Lookouts. | Riley Gowens/Instagram The Barons secure the lone affiliate victory behind Riley Gowens’ gem Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 3, Charlotte Knights 0 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Tonight’s loss dropped the Knights to 6-4 on the season. The Jacksonville pitching was just too much for the Charlotte offense to handle. They managed to...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 6, 2025

Zach DeLoach (#31), and Chase Meidroth celebrate after Meidroth’s sixth inning home run to cut the Knights deficit to two, 8-6. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights The Double-A Barons were postponed due to rain, but everyone else won, for an affiliate sweep! Charlotte Knights 9, Norfolk Tides 8 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Although the Knights couldn’t get the job done Saturday, their bats were...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 5, 2025

Hagen Smith had a Birmingham debut for the record books. | David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Does one blowout win balance out three close losses? Norfolk Tides 3, Charlotte Knights 2 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)Despite getting an early jump on the Tides, the Knights couldn’t take home the win. Greg Jones Jr., Edgar Quero, Andre Lipcius, and Dominic Fletcher recorded the only f...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 4, 2025

Don’t sleep on versatile Knights masher Andre Lipcius, who had a grand slam in tonight’s action. | Laura Wolff/Charlotte Knights A split day for the farm? Given recent seasons, we’ll take it Charlotte Knights 7, Norfolk Tides 6 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)The Knights held on, for their fifth win in seven tries, despite two late runs in the eighth. Nick Nastrini had another poor start, but ...2025
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• White Sox trim roster, announce Spring Breakout players, and shares sell to Justin Ishbia
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 19

Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Wilfred Veras tops our Round 18 ballot. So, who is the 19th-best prospect in the White Sox system? Longtime SSS favorite Wilfred Veras made relatively quick work of the poll, advancing in his third ballot, earning 36 of 213 votes (17%): Right field is definitely the position of outfield strength in the White Sox system, at least when i...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 18

Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Wikelman Gonzalez tops our Round 17 ballot. So, who is the 18th-best prospect in the White Sox system? The Garrett Crochet trade to Boston is laid to rest this round, at least in the Prospect Vote sense, as Wikelman Gonzalez advances with 45 of 214 votes (21%): While Ryan Teel (voted No. 8) and Braden Montgomery (No. 9) were hurt by ...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Prospect Vote: Round 17

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Bryan Ramos tops our Round 16 ballot. So, who is the 17th-best prospect in the White Sox system? With surprisingly low overall positioning, Bryan Ramos had a very easy time of it, taking 45 of 211 votes (21%): And yep, suddenly it’s third base fever, as we went 14 rounds without adding anyone from the hot corner before going back-to-back with Alexan...2025
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• 'I'm Back!': Untold Tales of Michael Jordan's 1st Return to the NBA 20 Years Ago
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• Michael Jordan's baseball teammates explain why he could've reached MLB and what MJ was like in Double-A
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• A Game of Groans

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Much like the smash hit TV series about a quest for power, the 8th season of the White Sox rebuild is letting fans down. But even after a historically bad start, showrunner Jerry Reinsdorf appears keen to do nothing but watch it burn. Chaos is a Ladder Jerry Reinsdorf — the beleaguered owner of the Chicago White Sox — grimaced in disgust as he watched his team ...2024
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• Braves Minor League Recap: Vaughn Grissom continues to surge
Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Grissom has been red hot during the month of June. The Atlanta Braves minor league organization struggled badly on the day. They lost four of their six games and two or fewer runs in three of them. In addition to that organization’s best offensive prospect continued his season-long struggles and one of their best minor league starters on the season had ar...2023
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper helps Atlanta snap losing streak
Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2012 - Chipper Jones homers in his first game of the year to help the Braves to a 6-4 win over the Houston Astros. The win snaps a nine-game losing streak that dates back to their collapse at the end of the 2011 season which cost them a playoff spot. Tyler Pastornicky hit his first major league homer for Atlanta in the win. MLB His...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 19, 2024

Juan Carela pitched five innings of one-hit ball for Winston-Salem. | Salina Rae Silver/South Side Sox Danny Mendick cannot be stopped, Juan Carela’s offspeed baffles, and Ryan Galanie locks in Charlotte Knights 5, Syracuse Mets 1 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)For the second straight night, the Charlotte Knights posted five runs en route to a win against the Syracuse Mets. And for the fourt...2024
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• White Sox Weekly Minor League Update: April 7-13, 2025
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Smokies Rally to beat Barons, 6-4
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• Today in White Sox History: March 31

On this day 62 years ago, the White Sox set their all-time attendance record at Payne Park in Sarasota. (No, this is not quite that game, but it is Payne Park, at that is the White Sox.) | Set Number: X20310 TK1 R9 F17 Another spring attendance record shattered 1963 Almost a year to the day after setting a Payne Park attendance record of 5,712, the White Sox and Yankees drew two more fans ...2025
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 25, 2024

The red-hot Brooks Baldwin rounds third to score in Chattanooga versus the Lookouts. | S. R. Silver/South Side Sox Brooks Baldwin cannot be stopped, Lenyn Sosa continues to mash, and other storylines from the farm Lehigh Valley IronPigs 7, Charlotte Knights 6 (Gameday score) (Statcast box)Lenyn Sosa was demoted three days ago. He seems to have taken that personally. LENYN. SOSA. HOME. ...2024
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• Time to rearrange the deck chairs again

White Sox GM Chris Getz hated last year’s team. I can’t imagine he feels much better about this one. | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports This year’s Chicago White Sox team is historically pathetic, even by Reinsdorfian standards. Something has to change While Rob Colletti’s analysis yesterday showed why (if you didn’t already know) the problem with the White Sox starts at the top with cha...2024
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• The institutional idiocy of dropping José Rodríguez

José Rodríguez in 2023, wondering why he was called up to the White Sox for a week to pinch-run in one game. | Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Scrap heap arms > speed-power middle infielder, got it, White Sox There are a lot of other things I need to be doing for South Side Sox late tonight (early a.m., actually), but Thursday’s move requires some follow-up. Oh, you thin...2024
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• The problem with Chris Getz

Chris Getz with Garrett Crochet in 2020, when he already had defense of Omar Vizquel on his record. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images And a reminder that under Jerry Reinsdorf, things can always get worse Content warning: this article discusses alleged sexual assault. It may be emotionally upsetting and difficult to read. The White Sox are broken. They are on track for 100 losses, with very lit...2023
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• White Sox Minor League Player of the Week (August 29-September 4): Logan Glass
Logan Glass shatters his line after a good week. | Kannapolis Cannon Ballers Some unlikely names stood out among our best of the week Logan Glass hits his 6th HR of the year. #Ballers tied at 1. #WhiteSox pic.twitter.com/2wddlzc5QV— White Sox Daily (@dailywhitesox) September 3, 2022 Sometimes, one of the non-top prospects has a really good week that is impossible to ignore. Logan Gla...2022
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• Birmingham Barons batboy sues Omar Vizquel for sexual harassment

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• Minnesota Twins set to call up Miguel Sano
The Minnesota Twins are dipping into their farm system once again this season as they hope calling up their number two overall prospect, Miguel Sano, will bring a spark to their lineup. Sano earns the call up after hitting 15 home runs and 48 RBIs with a .374 on-base percentage in the Twins’ AA affiliate, the Chattanooga Lookouts. The call up was first reported by Twins’ beat writer, Rhett Bolling...2015
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