How Do You Lose 21 Games In A Row?!
The Chicago White Sox Find A Way
Oh man, the Chicago White Sox are AWFUL.
Now, I went in detail at the beginning of the season of the team’s woes but as I type this, the ChiSox have just lost 21 games in a row. TWENTY-ONE games! How is that even possible? That means you’ve lost games at home, you’ve lost games on the road, you lost games at night, you lost games during the day, you go home and dream about new ways to lose… It’s bananas:
I knew this season wasn’t going to be great going in. The team had crashed out the standings last year and didn’t really reload anyone that was going to do damage on opponents. That’s fine, some teams punt an entire year if they have bigger plans the year after. Well, dear reader can you tell me the plan?! Are people throughout Chicago commuting to a place just so they can go back home disappointed? Is it to troll companies like McDonald’s that give out free fries if the team wins?
The last time they won a game was JULY 10th… And it was a doubleheader in which they lost the other game. It’s almost been a month of Ls. I wish I could miss at my job for a month and still have it… I’m dyin’ over here!
I have the post-show of tonight’s game against the Oakland Athletics (Oakland won 5-1) on in the background, and let me tell you: It sounds like a funeral. How many times can reporters ask players the same question? You lost, how do you feel? Here’s a clip from last week.
Here’s a clip from one of the sports shows
Look, I’m a fan of the team. Chicago has historically been my AL squad since the days of Frank Thomas. But even Frank Thomas is on these shows, baffled how the team he’s best known for has been the laughingstock of an entire sport.
And trust me, as a Mets fan I’m VERY familiar with being a laughing stock. By the way, what IS a laughingstock anyway? Actually never mind, I’m so confounded I looked it up myself.
Can someone tell me what White Sox fans are doing right now? Have they moved on to soccer and football? Are they writing their congressmen? I need to know because I wouldn’t know what to do if it were me.
The Oakland A’s (in all fairness a decent, if underachieving team) were projected to be the worst team in the league this season. Their owner skimped out on investing in the team, they are in the process of moving to Sacramento before moving on to Las Vegas. If there was any team to start a winning streak off of, it would be them. And yet…
TWENTY. ONE.
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