Posted on 09/28/2024 4:07:07 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
After listening all week to Chicago White Sox general manager Chris Getz, manager Grady Sizemore and players discussing their feelings about the inevitable modern-era record for losses the team finally broke Friday night in Detroit, one word seemed to be missing.
Frustrating? Difficult? Disappointing? Painful?
No, we heard those descriptions a few dozen times.
The word I never heard uttered was “unacceptable,” as in “this loss was unacceptable.”
Time and again we heard about the bad breaks, as if the Sox had a monopoly on bad luck. We get it. They were millimeters short of a win on Aug. 28 when Texas Rangers left fielder Travis Jankowski’s brilliant leaping catch robbed Andrew Vaughn of a walk-off home run. The Sox bullpen has blown 35 saves. If only a handful of those went the other way, the Sox would’ve avoided going down in history as the worst team ever.
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The White Sox are currently at 40-121 after an impressive 4-0 win against Detroit wrapped up just hours ago. If they win tomorrow and finish at 41-121, they will have a winning percentage of .3% higher than the hapless Mets.
But the swept the Angels...a lot to be said for that.
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Worst Records, MLB History
(Min. 150 Games Played; W-L, Win Pct)
1899 Cleveland Spiders: 20-134, .130
1916 Philadelphia A’s: 36-117, .235
1935 Boston Braves: 38-115, .248
2024 Chicago White Sox: 39-121, .244
1962 New York Mets: 40-120, .250
1904 Washington Senators: 38-113, .252
Most Losses in a Season, MLB History
(W-L, Win Pct)
1899 Cleveland Spiders: 134
2024 Chicago White Sox: 121
1962 New York Mets: 120
2003 Detroit Tigers: 119
1916 Philadelphia Athletics: 117
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40711227/what-worst-records-mlb-history
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The Sox are indeed pathetic, but imagine the frustration of Mariner fans, who must endure the only MLB team never to even reach the World Series, much less win a championship. Even their record matching 116 win season of 2001 was spoiled by the Yankees, ruining their closest ever attempt to reach the Series.. I do not expect to live long enough to see that wretched franchise play in the Series.
The Spiders were tanking.
In 1899, owners Frank and Stanley Robison purchased a second team – the bankrupt St. Louis NL franchise – and sent all of the Spiders’ top talent to that club, including future Hall-of-Famers Young, Burkett, and Bobby Wallace. The resulting Spiders roster finished the 1899 season 20–134, a record which remains the worst for a single season in major league history. The Spiders were subsequently one of four teams contracted by the National League that year. Partly in response to the Robison brothers’ actions – which effectively ended the Spiders franchise – the practice of “syndicate ownership” was later banned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Spiders
I am a Sox fan, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. My town has a team in a league of college players, and they provided my baseball fix this summer. They are pretty good, although not at MLB level, but they also aren’t getting paid millions of dollars whether they are any good or not.
Getz playing 2nd for the Royals was an exercise in futility.
When Roger Maris hit 61 home runs, beating Babe Ruth's record of 60, a lot of people wanted there to be an asterisk next to his name because he had not hit the 61st home run in the first 154 games of the season.
Well if they want something to hang their hat on, the Royals are in the playoffs after losing 106 games last year.
I’m from the Boston area and my dad used to get tickets to the Red Sox game occasionally when I was a kid. We weren’t that well off so the tickets he always managed to get was against the White Sox. I guess those were always really cheap to get. So every Red Sox game I ever went to was against the White Sox. Ironically, enough every single game, I attended, the Red Sox lost against the White Sox. Every. Single. Game.
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...but imagine the frustration of Mariner fans,
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The 116 win season bookends nicely with this year’s epic collapse.
That’s a much better name than “Guardians.”
Yep. I was living in Japan then. Everybody was rooting for Seattle because Ichiro Suzuki (our Kobe Blue Wave hometown boy) was showing everyone how utterly stupid the notion was that a Japanese position player couldn’t compete in MLB.
Cleveland Spiders, 1899, kind of doesn’t count because the team was sabotaged by their owners. They didn’t lose fair and square.
Lived in Cleveland while I was going to school and went to every Indian’s game I could.
To see the Indians? No. Their hot dog vendor served a brown mustard on their dogs to die for.
Best ever!!!!
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