Historic season

[rurallib]

I just happened to notice that the White Sox were playing at an incredibly bad .244 pace. So I did a little math and calculated that with any luck (all bad) they could easily set the record for worst season ever since 1900.

At the time I looked they were 29 - 89. Since then they have won 1 and lost 6 and now stand at an incredible 30 - 95 (.240). From what I looked up the worst record since 1900 was the Amazin' Mets with a 40 - 120 record.

I think the record is in sight! Let us hope they do not lose their focus and go on a win streak. At their current pace of .244 and 35 games to go they are looking at 39 - 123.

[True Dough]

1. I know this is going to come as a tremendous shock

but the White Sox were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention over the weekend.

[rsdsharp]

2. I posted something similar a week or so ago, before they played the Cubs.

Their possible futility is even worse when you focus on the fact that the Mets only played 160 games in 1962. It was (however remotely) possible they could have finished with 41 or 42 wins.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. The Sox Fans I Know...

...aren't depressed or discouraged. They're disgusted!
They won a world series, in a sweep, in '05, and they have Bern between mediocre and rotten almost the whole time since.
People are thinking Reinsdorf is pulling a Rachel Phelps so he can move the team to Nashville before he dies & leaves the team to his family.
The Bulls have been a big disappointment too.
Those franchises (worth $10 billion combined) are run like a family owned thrift store.
The fans are really upset.

[rurallib]

4. I am not much of a baseball fan these days, but many years ago was a huge fan

And I remember when Jerry Reinsdorf bought the White Sox. I just looked it up and it was January of 1981.

My recollections that he has pretty much run the team as if it were the family owned thrift store you describe. It is as if he is taunting the fans of Chicago for some strange reason.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Sure Looks That Way

I don't have a dog in the fight, because I'm a life-long Cubs fan, but not a Sox hater.
Somehow Reinsdorf harbors resentment that he couldn't take over the city from the Cubs. Just a guess.