Tag: Chicago White Sox

Member of worst baseball team of all time wins 2024 World Series

Starting the season on the worst team in baseball, ending it on the best.

Congratulations to Michael Kopech.

The Los Angeles Dodgers reliever just won his first World Series title over the New York Yankees in five games in a postseason performance that’s best classified as solid for the 28-year-old.

He wasn’t the Dodgers’ best arm (because Walker Buehler exists, among other things), but he was solid enough to earn manager Dave Roberts’ trust in October with 10 strikeouts over nine innings with a 3.00 ERA and 1.33 WHIP.

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Kopech, however, accomplished something much more astounding. Something he can hold over every one of his Dodgers teammates. He will now be credited with being a member of the worst MLB team of all time the same year he won the World Series.

Up until late July, Kopech was a part of the 121-loss Chicago White Sox. He was ultimately dealt to Los Angeles at the trade deadline as part of a three-team swap that sent  Kopech, Tommy Edman and Oliver Gonzalez to the Dodgers while the St. Louis Cardinals received Erick Fedde and Tommy Pham. Chicago received Miguel Vargas, Alexander Albertus and Jeral Pérez.

That trade proved crucial for Los Angeles as Edman earned National League Championship Series MVP against the New York Mets.

Vargas, the centerpiece of the return from the Dodgers, slashed .104/.217/.170 for the White Sox over 42 games after the trade.

Congrats, once again, to Michael Kopech for escaping baseball hell and reaching immortality only a few months later. Anything is truly possible.

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CHSN’s awful new score bug is so very hated by Chicago Bulls fans

This is terrible.

Have you heard about Chicago Sports Network? It’s the new regional sports network for the Blackhawks, White Sox and Bulls owned by those three Windy City franchises and Standard Media, and all that came about after their NBC Sports Chicago contract ran out.

While this is all well and good, CHSN decided to put together a vertical score bug (that’s the name for the thing on your TV that shows you the score of your game, timeouts, time left, etc). And, hoo boy, let me tell you … people DESPISE it.

It’s too big, it looks like a banner and, yeah, not great. Fans agreed:

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Former Notre Dame right wing Bryan Rust shows off delicious milkshake

Delicious.

Two years ago, my wife and I took a trip to Pittsburgh and got to experience the local institution known as the Milkshake Factory. During that time, the chain was offering a milkshake named after then-Penguins left wing Jake Guentzel. The milkshake went away when the Penguins dealt Guentzel during last season’s trade deadline.

But a new season means a chance at a new milkshake involving a Penguins player. The Milkshake Factory has taken advantage of that chance and teamed up with former Notre Dame right wing [autotag]Bryan Rust[/autotag].

Rust’s milkshake differs from Guentzel’s, but it’s my opinion that this one is better, and I wish I had the opportunity to travel to the Steel City right now just to try it. Yes, I would try it over the Campfire Milkshake that proved to be the only thing most people liked about the Chicago White Sox’s historically awful season they just had.

Rust will start this season on injured reserve, but at least this milkshake always will be available as long as it’s being offered.

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Garrett Crochet records six strikeouts at Detroit

Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Crochet records six strikeouts at Detroit.

Detroit (86-74) defeated Chicago (39-121), 4-1, on Friday at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.

Former Tennessee pitcher Garrett Crochet started for the White Sox. He pitched four innings and recorded six strikeouts. The former Vol allowed four hits and one walk.

Crochet totaled 62 pitches, including 41 strikes, against the Tigers.

After Friday’s win, Detroit clinched an American League wild card spot in the playoffs.

Crochet was selected by the White Sox in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft (No. 11 overall).

He played for the Vols from 2018-20, appearing in 36 games. Crochet (10-9) recorded 149 strikeouts during his career at Tennessee.

The former Vol went to Tennessee from Ocean Springs High School in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Crochet was selected by Milwaukee in the 34th round of the 2017 MLB draft. He signed with the Vols over Texas and Tulane.

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images

The White Sox Twitter admin posted the perfect tweet after Chicago clinched the most losses

This sums it all up.

Well, it finally happened. The Chicago White Sox are now officially the worst team in baseball history after they lost Game No. 121 in 2024.

Maybe this is the lowest point before things get better with some new management. But at least their social media admin has been having fun with all of this, embracing the historical levels of losing with a good sense of humor.

So how do you sum up a loss that clinched the most losses in an MLB season ever? With this brilliance — a photo of a desktop with Easter Eggs, scribbled thoughts and the sense that this admin had just given up:

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1839832215728844947?s=46&t=Z25PykXLy1oALqwmGLm3ZQ

Well played.

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The White Sox have run out of ways to tell fans on social media that they’ve lost again

Poor White Sox.

The Chicago White Sox have lost a staggering 117 games this season, which has to be absolutely crushing for everyone in the organization.

That includes the social media team, which seems to have run out of ways to share with fans that the White Sox have lost yet another game.

After the team fell on Wednesday night to the Los Angeles Angels, the White Sox Twitter (X) poster shared this incredibly sad update for the fans.

“FINAL: the other team scored more runs than us,” the update shared, which makes you wince in embarrassment at just how awful the state of affairs is for this baseball team.

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1836552498229764210

Woof. That’s brutal. Poor White Sox. Poor White Sox.

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The White Sox installed a former Navy SEAL with no baseball experience to overhaul the franchise

The White Sox are so hopelessly stupid.

With about two weeks left in the 2024 MLB regular season, the Chicago White Sox are on pace to break the record for most losses ever in a 162-game season. For all intents and purposes, they are one of the worst professional baseball teams ever. They are dreadful, and they are hopeless.

Full stop.

So, what’s the White Sox’s big plan to pull themselves out of the dark, dank cellar they’re currently trapped in? (For the record, they’re not doing anything in free agency.) They’ve hired Brian Mahler, an ex-Navy SEAL … with no baseball experience … to overhaul their organizational ladder.

Yeah, that tracks.

The White Sox are probably comfortable hiring someone with no major baseball experience because the people already running them make it seem like they’ve never been around baseball, too.

It’s a match made in heaven.

More from ESPN’s Jeff Passan:

Brian Mahler — a former Harvard lacrosse player who went on to become a Marine and Navy SEAL before earning a law degree from Georgetown — joined the White Sox as director of leadership, culture and continuing education. Mahler, who came into the organization having never worked in baseball, is at the heart of the overhaul in Chicago’s front office, and a committee headed by Mahler is expected to recommend a suite of changes for the organization to institute in the coming years. It’s a multiyear project with a focus, sources said, on optimizing resources, scaling processes and connecting departments, and Reinsdorf, who is 88, is backing it after years of wanting to win now.

Look, I’m sure Mahler is a smart and successful person in his own right. But it’s so classic White Sox to entrust someone who has never worked in baseball to help fix their extensive laundry list of problems. It is the definition of overthinking and cutting corners at the same time. It is the way of owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

Check back here in 2025 when the White Sox are on their way to another 100-plus-loss season. You can also probably already say the same for 2026.

White Sox GM Chris Getz confirms no help is on the way next season

Chris Getz’ 2025 team is on the field, unfortunately.

It’s been a long and painful season for Chicago White Sox fans as the franchise marches ever closer to setting MLB’s modern futility record.

As of Saturday morning, the South Siders are 33-115. They’ve won four games in the last month and haven’t won at home since August 12. They have a team Wins Above Replacement of 1.6. Chicago’s farm system is rated the 11th-best in baseball, but lacks any clear cornerstone talent to build around.

Even if it did, the track record of player development in Chicago is seriously lacking. Of the team’s first round draft picks since 2013, three are out of baseball, four are on other teams and only one is an everyday player on the Major League club. That would be first baseman Andrew Vaughn, who is slashing .246/.298/.400.

Chicago’s payroll is 18th in the league, which would hypothetically mean there’s room to spend this winter, right?

Uh. About that.

General Manager Chris Getz told the Sox broadcast on Friday night there are no plans to address this team’s many deficiencies on the open market.

White Sox Baseball: We’ll do it again next year, too!

The White Sox embarrassingly managed to screw up a routine grounder to first base

How is this an MLB team?

The White Sox are well on their way to being the worst MLB team in the 162-game era. But at the same time, you’d expect a team full of professional baseball players to be able to execute on the easiest of plays.

That’s not the case with these White Sox, and we saw that in action on Wednesday.

With Andrés Giménez at the plate for the Guardians in the third inning, he hit a soft, chopping grounder that was easily fielded by first baseman Andrew Vaughn. It should have been an easy out, but Vaughn hesitated on his glance to second base and couldn’t make it to the bag before a hustling Giménez.

https://twitter.com/OptimistSox/status/1833943000998961633

No MLB team should be messing up that play. In fact, no baseball team at any level should mess up that play.

Vaughn, at the very least, could have tagged Giménez, but he still should have beaten Giménez to the bag had he shown any urgency.

Good teams don’t make those kinds of mistakes.

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An absolutely brutal White Sox blooper sparked a classic call from Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown

Oh no, White Sox!

A cringe-worthy error for the Chicago White Sox just turned into an instant classic of a call from Baltimore Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown on Tuesday night.

As two White Sox outfielders were trying to catch what seemed to be a routine flyout on an Eloy Jiménez hit, they somehow ran into each other as the ball went elsewhere and Baltimore was able to get some runners on base. 

As he couldn’t believe what he was watching, Brown very aptly said that the bizarre snafu was the White Sox going “full White Sox.”

Well, was he wrong? For such a nightmare of a season, this has to be one of the lowlights. At least Brown gave us this golden commentary.

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