The White Sox' season/streak deserves its own thread

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It really depends on how you define worst, by most losses or by lowest winning percentage? I think at best it's ambiguous.

Right , anyway ,I don't think many people will look back on this Sox team in the same way they do with the 1962 Mets

[smg58]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Point of order, Mr. Speaker..... The US didn't enter WW1 until April 6, 1917. The 1916 A's had no excuse. I yield back my time.

Normally the owner would fire the manager after such an embarrassment. But the owner WAS the manager.

[smg58]

There are a couple of things that make it hard to compare the 62 Mets to these White Sox. The Mets were an expansion team where everybody was either too young or too old to be in their prime, playing for a fan base that was thrilled to have a National League team again. The White Sox play in an era where big market teams can always afford to be at least adequate, and somehow they had half the necessary win total to be defined as adequate. It's just not fathomable.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It really depends on how you define worst, by most losses or by lowest winning percentage? I think at best it's ambiguous.

So a team that plays 300 games but loses 122 of them did worse than the '62 Mets?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah the White Sox are the biggest stain on the game however you look at it. Between them and the A's, really embarrassing year for baseball, even with the all the Ohtani stuff.

[MFS62]

It should come as no surprise that owner Jerry Reinsdorf (88 yrs old) is thinking of selling the team:



https://www.yahoo.com/sports/white-sox-owner-jerry-reinsdorf-reportedly-in-discussions-about-selling-team-after-historically-bad-season-214446200.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/sports/white-sox-owner-jerry-reinsdorf-reportedly-in-discussions-about-selling-team-after-historically-bad-season-214446200.html



He's no Joan Payson who didn't let a little thing like a loss record make her think of selling.

Later

[Centerfield]

Fewer owners like Reinsdorf is a good thing.



So long as he's not replaced by someone worse.

[metirish]

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

"His Venability was off the charts!" Jerry Reinsdorf

[Centerfield]

https://x.com/MLB/status/1851995263633641663

Why does he not have a top half of his head

[Benjamin Grimm]

If he did, he wouldn't have taken that job.