White Sox blanked, 3-0
whatever, nevermind
The exercise in caution for a paper-over year and cautionary tale for any and all future rebuilds 2024 Chicago White Sox again stumbled deep into the recesses of fan hearts and dismissively pooped on Friday night, dropping a 3-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals that was both forgettable and depressing.
You can’t possibly want to read much about a game in which jagbag Brad Keller — BRAD KELLER, White Sox Public Enemy No. 1 back when our squad gave two squats about building a winning baseball program — took the ball and proved unworthy of a major league start with the milquetoast countenance of a guy who only recently regained the feeling in his right arm would: Needing 102 commandless pitches to retire 14 batters, just wild enough to be dangerous in the same way you might instinctively flinch if a 16´´softball was launched at 25 mph high and rainbowing down a bit snug to your chin.
It’s been said during most of the 32 games this season, of which the White Sox have now lost 26, and back deep into spring training: The White Sox are not just abysmal at playing baseball, they play it with a flaccid dispassion and yearning cluelessness. The mistakes made cost at-bats, runs, games, but those mistakes are made punishingly offensive by F.A.S.T. catchphrases and other rah-rah horseshittery that wouldn’t even pass muster in Little League. They will soon add their insult to our injury, and at least on that one point we will refuse the abuse.
Today, and for farther into the future than any of us want to admit, the White Sox stand as a betrayal of our fandom.
Futility Watch
White Sox 2024 Record 6-26, worst 32-game start in White Sox history (1 1⁄2 games ahead of the 1948 White Sox, at 7-24-1) and tied with the 2023 A’s for sixth-worst in MLB history
White Sox 2024 Run Differential -87, 11th-worst 32-game start in MLB history
White Sox 2024 Season Record Pace 30-132 (.185)
Race to the Worst-Ever White Sox Record (1932, 52-109-1*) 22 1⁄2 games ahead
Race to the Most-Ever White Sox Losses (1970, 106) 26 games ahead
Race to the Worst-Ever American League Record (1916 A’s, 38-124*) 8 games ahead
Race to the Worst-Ever MLB Record (1899 Spiders, 21-141*) 9 games behind
*record adjusted to a 162-game season