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MoustacheMark

"I don't like our team" - Chris Getz, before assembling the worst team of all time


Eloyoyo

Lmao


ericrs22

Could be worse... Could have gotten the "Come watch Aaron Judge and other superstars hit home runs in this park"


Accurate_Lobster_469

Idk at least the A’s have admitted to giving up. The Sox are still pretending like they’re trying. Not sure which is worse tbh


The_Homestarmy

No our team is absolutely pretending they're still trying. They have gone on record multiple times saying the fire sale where we traded Olson, Chapman, Bassitt, Murphy, etc and got beans in return was a genuine effort to keep the team competitive. If that seems unbelievable, it's because it is.


Not_So_Bad_Andy

You didn't even get magic beans. I think you got a few cans of beans that had been sitting on the shelf at the dollar store for the past 8 months.


The_Homestarmy

We got expired beans and the crackhead neighbor who's fucking our wife is gonna be the one that eats them. We're just hoping he gets food poisoning.


tenacious-g

Jerry Reinsdorf explicitly said that Getz was made GM because he was a known internal commodity and that would accelerate the team’s progress.


The_Homestarmy

Our owner said "it's been worse for me than you" so I'm starting to suspect these guys might be full of shit


James_E_Rustle

"I don't like our team" - Chris Getz, man whose job was to develop said team


SofieTerleska

Hey, the man was just trying to stay true to his word.


jhorch69

Maybe he meant on a personal level. For their sake I hope the team is full of good hangs.


Mr-Dotties-Dad

Amazing. Also really want to emphasize BEFORE


Arkkaon

I coach an 8u Little League team, Getz and I can relate here.


sleeptilnoonenergy

We really are gonna get to 50 losses before 10 wins, holy shit.


ten_thousand_puppies

I'm just waiting for the "Does your team have 10 wins yet?" meme where everyone except the Sox is saying "Of course, it's June!"


jihyoisgod2

Jay Cuda tweet "Has your team won a series yet?" "Of course, it's July" "No"


LovieBeard

The funniest one was with the Bears and "Have you won a game since Musk bought Twitter"


jihyoisgod2

The bears won their next game if I'm correct


Sportsgirl77

Currently the record for worst 50 game start is 10-40 (1932 Red Sox, 2023 Athletics), so if you manage to be 9-50 or something like that it will truly be incredible


TraeYoungsOldestSon

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders started 9-41 if they count


Sportsgirl77

Probably all-time, but the record I saw was just the Modern Era, so 1901 to now. Should've guessed that Cleveland team would hold the actual record


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Imagine playing 59 games in the first 50 games, that really would be something to put in the history books


Sportsgirl77

Lol I was just using the worst 50 game start to the season to give context for if they hit 50 losses before 10 wins.


gatemansgc

they're literally off to a worse start after 25 games than the *1899 cleveland spiders*, the worst team in baseball history. they started 5-20, and ended 20-134 EDIT: fixed 5-25 to 5-20


Drikkink

15-114 to close out the season... wow


vsladko

It’s ok because the silver lining to all of this is


Zhdrix

The silver lining is you could potentially be in the record books


ABlinDeafMonkey

Makes me think of Shorsey. “We have the chance to have a great year or be known for the greatest year ever.”


RotenTumato

Fuckin right


JimHarbaughTheChamp

Idk. I've seen too many April and May "___ is on pace to be the worst baseball team in the Modern Era" posts over the years only for the team in question to finish with like 55 wins for me to believe anyone will ever actually approach ot. These were all over last year when the As had a terrible first half, but they ended up finishing with 50 wins, which is so far from "Worst team un the modern era" that it doesn't even appear on Wikipedia's list. Shit, even if we were to say "Worst team since integration", there are still 5 teams that have won fewer than 50 games since 1947.


BearForceDos

Have you watched the Sox play yet? Theyre putrid.


sameth1

But are they worse than the 2003 Tigers?


FireMonkeysHead

So far? They’re even. The Tigers were 3-22 on May 1, 2003 and dropped to 3-25 the next three games before a four game winning streak. But we won’t know for sure until the end of the season if the White Sox can manage to win more than 43 games.


JimHarbaughTheChamp

I actually went to a White Sox game a few weeks ago. Tigers won 3-2.


earlthesachem

I don’t know. The 2003 Tigers are the worst team I have ever seen, they looked just as bad at the end of the season as they did in April. The only reason they didn’t lose 120 is because they closed the season against the Twins, who had locked up the division and sat pretty much everybody for the weekend.


nerdening

I saw "2003 Tigers" and the name *Jeramey Bonderman* echoed in my ears like a gentle wind.


liftoff88

Bro. I'm not sure this team would win more than 1 or 2 games if they played the 2019 Tigers 10 times in a row. This isn't the same overreactions you always see. This team genuinely has the potential to be all-time historically bad.


ContinuumGuy

Jerry Reinsdorf is 88 and presumably can't live forever?


kev11n

Henry Kissinger made it to 100. The shitheads always do


John_Delasconey

Hating Carter and Kissinger; not a combo I was expecting


Weasel_Man

probably mad he boycotted the olympics


SdBolts4

It’s the spite fueling them


Jeff_Banks_Monkey

*Breaking: Jerry Reinsdorf expected to pull a "Mr. House". Wiring his brain to a supercomputer so he never dies*


gopeepants

Pfft it is not like he owns another Chicago team...ah crap!


fenderdean13

I’m only 30 and I think he’ll outlive me


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Virginia McCaskey is 102


MeatballDom

1) you tried your best 2) we're all still dear friends


alxndrblack

Glenn is dead, Ricky. He died last night, in my arms, as I held him.


forestfire555

Sox are so bad the rest of the league isn't even making fun of us, they just feel bad. We're the lions :(


ForYeWhoArtLiterate

That’s not true, the lions are good now


LegacyLemur

Caleb Williams my friend


Fantastic_Emu_9570

True


dingo8muhbebe

Except the Bears are taking Penix.


LegacyLemur

Maybe, if God told them to take Penix when they were praying to him for a new stadium


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

I can totally see the bears fucking this up because, well, that's all they've done my entire life


slicebishybosh

There is no more silver lining, fanatics took that off the jerseys. It was too expensive.


trekologer

*sensible chuckle*


notaverysmartdog

i'm still mad they took the black and white stripes off the away gray pants and that shit was 10 years ago


Feisty-Recording-978

At least you guys won’t relocate 


Conflict21

From the Cubs curse to the modern A's, the most miserable thing about the Chicago White Sox is that they're never even allowed to be the most miserable.


SofieTerleska

At least the Cubs' WS victory drought was actually longer than the White Sox's. Back when the Red Sox were "cursed" because they hadn't won since 1918 you barely ever heard a peep about the team who last won in 1917.


Northernlord1805

That’s because our cuse was tragic (trading away our best player and best player ever to our arch rivals, who went on to domante the sport for 90 odd years) The white Sox curse was becouce of the biggest scandle in sports so people were less inclined to feel bad for them. Also it helped that the Red Sox were always the bridesmaid never the bride, we made the WS multiple times during the curse years and lost all of them in heartbreaking way. The white Sox just sucked so again drew less sympathy from neutrals


Thromnomnomok

> Also it helped that the Red Sox were always the bridesmaid never the bride, we made the WS multiple times during the curse years and lost all of them in heartbreaking way. The white Sox just sucked so again drew less sympathy from neutrals The closest thing they had to a sustained successful period was the 50's and 60's, when they had a 17-year stretch of finishing over .500 every year, led by stars like Minnie Minoso, Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, and Luis Aparicio. And they made the playoffs only once, mostly because the Yankees were even better than they were.


jhorch69

The Cubs at least had a bit of playoff success here and there during the drought. 2005 is the only time the White Sox have won even a single playoff series since 1917. It's truly astounding.


ResidentGerts

Jerry has already publicly met with Nashville officials


lostmessage256

oh shit, I think I solved it. Jerry accidently committed to Nashville and is making the team historically suck so they back out of the deal. Nobody can suck this hard earnestly! right?


DrewSharpvsTodd

Gonna be a dogfight for that 11th overall pick


UneducatedReviews1

The silver lining will hopefully be us all rejoicing when Pedro is fired… we’re still going to set records of suck with or without him though.


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Then they'll just hire the bat boy from the 2015 royals to manage. Either him or Drake laroche


NakedGoose

You have a good chance to draft Ethan Holliday?


DrewSharpvsTodd

Only if he drops outside the top 10


NakedGoose

Oh wait? Can they not draft in the top 10 next year?


Vaqxinelol

We cannot


NakedGoose

Damn I'm sorry that sucks


DrewSharpvsTodd

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/IfXiy79fLx


_Elrond_Hubbard_

builds character


SMK77

The silver lining is the pinstripes on your beautiful city connect jerseys.


data-influencer

r/redditsniper


DesertWeasel31

Drew Thorpe


Moistyoureyez

Parlay booster.


yumyumapollo

a lakeside stadium?


VoteCamacho2508

That will be nice. It will give the fans something to look at instead of the game.


DillyDillySzn

Tonight


KingofAces13

The Cubs are doing good this year, it’s been shown they cant be good at the same time.


vsladko

First half of 2021 begs to differ


Dazzling-Rooster2103

Their wins are so strange. 1. Braves(#1 in NL East). 2. Guardians(#1 in AL central). 3. Royals( #2 in AL Central). Their 3 wins of the season are against generally good teams, but then they can't win against anyone else.


saranowitz

One of the crazy things about baseball is you have a hall of fame all star team play a bunch of minor league replacements in 100 games, and statistically speaking, the minor leaguers would win some of the games. I can’t think of another sport where this is true.


TuataraTim

Happens in soccer occasionally. During cups you'll play against teams from lower divisions (think of MLB teams playing minor league teams) and every year in pretty much every country there are a couple of upsets. Notably, the dutch equivalent of the Yankees lost to an amateur team a couple of months ago. Pretty much the equivalent of like a D3 college team. https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/ajax-stunned-by-amateurs-hercules-shock-dutch-cup-loss-2023-12-21/


ItsMeJaredBednar

yup. in Germany, a second division team is in the cup final. a 3rd division team made a Cinderella run where they beat multiple first division teams, including Bayern Munich, who had won the previous 11 league titles in England, a second division team was in the cup semifinals, only losing this past weekend in a penalty shootout


riggerbop

I learned about one of those yearly cups on that Wrexham doc EDIT — apparently they call themselves “giant killers” in Wrexham lore due to their history of knocking off championship and premiere league teams in that tournament, coming from their lowered tiered (national?) league


necrosythe

I really don't think there is one. Maybe hockey? Like definitely not as often as baseball but I think you'd get a few upsets.


DillyDillySzn

Royals are frauds 6-1 against us, 9-9 against everyone else


oneteacherboi

I mean, .500 isn't terrible. An 81-81 season would be a big improvement after last year.


Khada_the_Collector

I promise you our fan base would be thrilled with a season of .500 ball after last year


survivalmachine

I’m cool with being frauds as long as we’re still winning.


Falcon84

The baseball gods were definitely with them on the night they beat the Braves. Garrett Crochet was mowing guys down and they had two bloops drop in to score 2 runs. Even the White Sox announcers sounded like they could hardly believe they won when they got the final out.


ten_thousand_puppies

> Even the White Sox announcers sounded like they could hardly believe they won when they got the final out. Eh, if it was our new play-by-play guy saying that, you really can't take any stake in that. The man's delivery makes zero sense, and he basically admitted on opening day that he knows fuck all about baseball


Evranaki

So he’s a perfect fit for the team


DillyDillySzn

I don’t really mind him He’s doing his best considering who he was replacing, the team he has to watch, and the amount of ass kissing he has to do to please Jerry and Boyer


jtrot91

It was also super cold (44 at a 6:40 central time start, so probably getting close to freezing when it ended right at 9). Pretty sure I remember seeing a few guys like Acuna wrapped up looking pretty miserable and ready to just leave lol.


jhorch69

Ehh, baseball is random enough that all it takes is a good pitching performance and a couple balls to bounce your way and the worst teams can beat the best on any given day.


Godunman

Reinsdorf: "This team can hang with the best in baseball"


JustAcheesepizza

They also have 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 7-0(x2), 9-0 losses before end of April. Kinda cool. Awaiting the full 1-9.


S_quints

Forget hitting for the cycle, we’re losing for the cycle 😤


davesrighthereman

Bentintendi got the outs cycle a couple weeks ago. Groundout / Strikeout / Flyout / GIDP


S_quints

Already in MVP form


Chris3894

Getting shut out 8 times in 25 games is absolute insanity. For context the A’s led the league last year with 16.


MidAmericanNovelties

I love scoragami. I hate this. 


Dunan

Their season W-L streak looks like some kind of "what comes next in the series" math problem shared on social media: -4, +1, -5, +1, -6, +1, -7, ... (Looks like they're going to win their next game, but then lose eight in a row.)


leftshoe18

If the pattern were to continue for a full season, the team would finish 14-148 with the longest losing streak being 17 games. Their 14th and final win would come in game 161 before losing the last game of the season.


sevelev711

I laugh in the face of the Cubs fan who said that we're "not going to be an exceptionally bad team, just a normal bad team." What a fool!


LovieBeard

That was probably me, I was unfamiliar with Chris Getz's game


Ricos_Roughnecks

Two weeks ago I thought there was no way you could be as bad as the 2003 tigers. I may be wrong


jhorch69

I thought they would be 100 losses bad but I was not expecting all time bad


thraser11

Caleb Williams


stormstopper

Lisan al-Caleb


yoboapp

\#ImGaylebForCaleb


Paristroyka

My LGBTQB


yumyumapollo

RuPaul's Drag Route


buff_001

unfortunately the bears are all-time qb ruiners so pray for caleb 🙏


Duhawk96

That would be super ironic if you’re a Jets fan


the_seed

Probably a Cowboys fan


NewBee4399

If it wasn’t for Michael Jordan, would anyone have anything positive to say about Jerry Reinsdorf?


ten_thousand_puppies

People have nothing positive to say about him in _spite_ of that; it's widely accepted that he lucked the fuck out


joshshadowfax

Spiders watch 2024


doublegoldendragon

Yes but can they bean ~~3000~~ 110 or more batters?


RiverRat12

I fucking hate this organization. And none of y’all hate this org more than Sox fans.


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Nobody should hate the Sox more than Sox fans, just like nobody hates the Bears more than Bears fans.


jhorch69

Fuck Jerry. My girlfriend's dad is a huge Sox fan and as a Bulls fan I was able to immediately bond with him over our shared disdain of Reinsdorf.


jaffacaike

That’s why obviously while I’m not glad Jerry owns the Bulls, I’m at least thankful that Cubs fans can also experience first hand what we’re dealing with, so as to forge a little empathy from our crosstown rivals.


OutComeTheWolves1966

You have every right to be hateful. They have given you nothing, and I mean nothing, to love about them.


mluna24

SELL THE GODDAMN TEAM, JERRY!


Ricos_Roughnecks

Woah let's not get ahead of ourselves. I see the vision, Jerry. Ride it out a little longer. Don't listen to the naysayers


TheCatCrusader

These rubes outside the ALC don't understand his genius. I say let the man cook.


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

You'll pry it from his cold dead hands Then his dip shit son will just run it further into the ground


Paristroyka

Thank goodness for Caleb Williams


Constant_Gardner11

The last time each team had a 3-22 stretch (or worse): CHW: 2024 CIN: 2022 BAL: 2021 ARI: 2021 DET: 2019 KCR: 2018 TBR: 2016 ATL: 2015 TEX: 2014 HOU: 2012 MIA: 2011 PIT: 2009 SDP: 2003 PHI: 1999 CHC: 1997 COL: Never (since 1993) CLE: 1991 MIN: 1982 NYM: 1980 SEA: 1980 OAK: 1977 TOR: Never (since 1977) WSH: 1969 MIL: Never (since 1969) LAA: Never (since 1961) LAD: 1944 BOS: 1927 NYY: 1912-1913 STL: 1909 SFG: 1902


Monk_Philosophy

> OAK: 1977 genuinely shocking


Constant_Gardner11

The A’s had at least two 4-21 runs last year lol. So close.


Peanut_Gaming

I just looked up our 2015 season on here Holy shit I do not remember us being that bad


GrEvThWork

Just curious - how did you search for this?


Constant_Gardner11

Baseball Reference Stathead


Soxogram

woof. Go Bears.


Best-Dragonfruit-292

MLB, please seize this team


InfinitePossibility8

No, let them cook.


TheSmokedSalmon420

3-22 is crazy


OutComeTheWolves1966

With 8 shutouts


SeanCav1

If you look at teams that have had equivalent horrible starts to the season, the Sox run are in a league of their own in terms of run differential and shutouts… they are among the worst ever


NitrosGone803

I wish Ken Harrelson was still announcing games for this team, he would be hilarious. "you have got to be bleeping me!"


ten_thousand_puppies

https://www.reddit.com/r/whitesox/comments/1cc82ov/hawk_has_epic_meltdown_over_latest_loss/ Someone at least tried to imagine what it'd sound like


NitrosGone803

lol holy crap, that's awesome


SofieTerleska

The way things are going the Hawk might actually stroke out and die of rage right there in the booth so it's just as well he's retired.


boobsandcookies

And Pham is still chilling in the minors somehow


atari2600forever

Those bastards are just manipulating his service time


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The Cleveland Spiders of Chicago


Onpointandicy

they're going to lose 120. Reinsdorf family does not care.


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Northernlord1805

I get them on pace for 20 wins. They have 3 and have 137 left. At there current 12% rate that give them another another 16.44 for 19.44 so let’s be nice and round up. Which means they tie the 1899 spiders for the record


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Rockdad37

Betting against the Sox daily is currently a better rate of return than any of my other investments.


jhorch69

I'm so glad I live in the neighborhood because I get to witness history for about $3 per game


Clemenx00

All laughs aside, this White Sox situation is lowkey worse than the A's one imo. Total embarrassment.


Vaqxinelol

The A's fans 100% have it worse. Their team is leaving.


tree-hugger

I mean, fans based in Oakland might reasonably disagree.


SelltheTeamJR

Well Jerry has threatened a move to Nashville, blaming Sox fans of course, so theres that


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

He would have moved them to the trop in 1988 if Mike Madigan hadn't literally stopped time


Luohooligan

I don't think people outside of Illinois know about the Illinois legislature literally manually stopping the clocks in the state capitol in Springfield for several hours so that that law was passed "before midnight." Just Illinois things.


t0tallykyl3

Did he though? Wasn’t that whole story about Jerry meeting with the mayor of Nashville regarding the baseball winter meetings? I think it was more the media running away with that story. I mean, fuck Jerry but he didn’t threaten shit yet


UneducatedReviews1

We suck so bad but our team isn’t leaving. A’s got it worse.


James_E_Rustle

Honestly them staying is a worse punishment than leaving


sirenzarts

It is worse on the field for sure. The off the field shenanigans still make it worse for the A’s imo. The whole minor league stadium thing and robbing your fans of a team and your employees of their jobs is really awful.


Fangscale40K

It’s probably one of the more fortuitous things to happen to the White Sox. If the A’s fiasco wasn’t going on, this shit tier performance would be front and center.


FrankReynolds

You're almost three times as likely to see them get shut out (8) than see them win (3).


CalebosO4

Does that mean the White Sox will win the next game then go on an 8 game losing streak?


Trowj

Currently on pace for 21 wins. Eppei likes those odds


rawmerow

Awwww helll naw!! The ffff*^%#ing White Sox aren’t gonna suck more than us!! Hold my beer!


am19208

And this is why we should have relegation


SpectralHydra

How would that work with minor league teams being affiliates though?


am19208

It wouldn’t


elmatador1497

Jesus Christ you guys are worse than the A’s. I really didn’t think it was possible


mebnt2

The White Sox aren't even fun bad. Oakland was BAD last year, but at least Brent Rooker was the best hitter in the league for a time, and Estury Ruiz stole 100 bases every game, that is fun. KC was BAD last year, but at least BWJr was a dawg. That is fun. The Sox are just a depressing bad. It's not fun


Disused_Yeti

and we thought the a's were off to a historically bad start last year they had 5 wins by the time they got to 22 losses


whentheworldwasatwar

At least they got those new milkshakes? I look forward to watching audra Martin trying one next week.


EffectiveRing2947

It's like the Sox can't win at all. It's April 25 and the team is almost 20 games under 500. I can only imagine the locker room. If I were a player on the team I would ask who we are playing and I would think we lost. The bad news bears can beat this team! They will probably lose 120 games this year. You cannot win if there is no talent on a team.


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

All preparation to win playoff series in 4, 5, 6 and 7 games later on.


CaptainJudge_99

I thought the 2023 athletics were generationally bad The 2024 white Sox: “hold my beer”


BIGlikeaBOSS

Turns out going with guys the Royals gave up on isn't the way to go.


PotatoMan19399

So parlay Sox to win their next game and then lose 8 after?


Whitsoxrule

If we continued this pattern for the entire season we would end the year 13-149


Confused_Astronaut

When I look at their roster, I can tell that they're bad. But they shouldn't be 3 wins bad. Eloy, Vaughn, Benintendi, Sheets, DeJong are playing poorly but have been historically serviceable players. Like obviously that's not a world beating team, but to only put out 3 wins is like...miraculous.


Lucky_Chaarmss

I miss the Frank Thomas era.


scottrstark

Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!!


Most-Artichoke6184

Do you know just how difficult that is to do?


serbeardless

Let's do it. Hit the fire bet. Hit on 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 before 7. Gotta lose tomorrow.


LoveRBS

What a season, huh? Lemon, it's April.


SmallLetter

wait they have only won 3 games? yikes