Leigh Allan

If you’re desperate to win a couple of games in a row and to take a series for the first time since Wilbur Wood was doing the pitching, it pays to pick your opponents. Last time the White Sox were successful at such things, the team doing the losing was the Rockies. This time, it’s the A’s. ’Nuff said.

Much of the time when writers or announcers refer to the 2024 White Sox steaming toward the worst record in major league history, they include the word “modern,” either with or without quotation marks. That’s because 1901 is considered the start of the modern era of professional baseball, basically because it was the first year the National and American Leagues both existed as recognized “major” leagues (well, the American League just “declared” itself major). and soon after the two leagues struck the National Agreement, began working together in a coordinated fashion, and met in a World Series to determine league supremacy.

He was Flexen those pitching muscles today. Michael Reaves/Getty Images

Detroit’s celebration after clinching the playoffs last night probably helped a lot. Nic Antaya/Getty Images

Sure, the entire baseball world knows that the White Sox are the worst team in modern major league history (forget the percentages, total losses are what people remember), but dig into the numbers a bit and 121 losses are just the little bitty tippy-tip of the iceberg.

You better keep going or you’re not getting paid for this

... no one anyone else has named

Time to go with the flow of fandom

Not that they’ll pay any attention, but let’s do it anyway

Which wasn’t really a huge surprise