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13 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

 

I take back what I said about the Sox winning enough to go down in history as merely bad. They are being guided by the hand of God toward ignominy. 31-103. They've got this.

 

This is all I'll ever think of when I hear Travis Jankowski's name.  I was there live, and couldn't believe that this actually happened:
 

 

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Lazy POS Trea Turner hands the Braves 2 more unearned runs because he's a lazy POS.  Serious question for people that have watched more than just the last two seasons of his career - was he ever actually good at baseball?  He might be, and I say this without hyperbole, the worst fielding "good" player I've ever seen in my life.  I've seen worse fielders, but not anyone that was actually supposed to be good.

 

He doesn't even try sometimes.  He just kinda coasts like "I'm Trea Turner dammit!  I can just coast and catch the ball with my eyes closed."

 

I hate him as much as I've hated any athlete since Donovan McNabb.

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Sox hit 104, 10-17 from here breaks the record. History beckons.

 

By the way, forgot to mention it with the earlier clip, but the guy they replaced Jason Benetti with is a knob.

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58 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

Sox hit 104, 10-17 from here breaks the record. History beckons.

 

No way that team goes 10-17. They'll be lucky to go 5-22. This thing is all but in the bag.

 

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3 hours ago, McCall said:

Did they forget there's a lottery now and having the worst record doesn't automatically give you the first pick in the draft?🤔

 

They forgot that to win games in Major League Baseball you need Major League Baseball players.

 

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13 hours ago, McCall said:

Did they forget there's a lottery now and having the worst record doesn't automatically give you the first pick in the draft?🤔

 

The White Sox (and A's) can't pick higher than 10th in next year's draft regardless thanks to the new CBA rule. 

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2 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:


More than Ben Simmons?

 

I don't care much about basketball.  I want the Sixers to win so there's a parade and fun stuff, but I don't really care.

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Let’s focus on the positives here. GREAT throw by the catcher. 

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53 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

108 today. 11 in a row, third losing streak of at least 10. They might not win another game all year.

The Brewers won 4 games in the last three days of August. The White Sox have won 4 games since July 11.

No words. Historically bad.

It's where I sit.

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They're 31-108. They need to go 12-11 to avoid the all time loss record of 120. A .223 ball club is gonna play above .500 the rest of the way? lol Yeah right. Doesn't look like they'll get to 40 wins. 

 

There's 23 games left and the schedule isn't easy either. 2 left against Baltimore, 3 each against Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, and San Diego all with winning records and playoff hopes to play for. They have 6 games left against the Angels and 3 more against Oakland who aren't good, but both clubs look like the 1976 Reds in comparison to the White Sox. I don't see a path to 9 wins there. 

 

Not only are they bad, but they are scientifically bad. If you field a roster of players good enough to reach the professional level of baseball you should accidentally win a third of your games simply on the inherent randomness of baseball and they're approaching the mathematical bottom of how bad a team could possibly be. To do what they've done with all these systems in place, like the draft and Latin America youth academies, free agency, systems designed to prevent a team from being this bad is fascinating. I never thought I'd see a team worse than the 03 Tigers and the White Sox very much are. 

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4 hours ago, Sport said:

They're 31-108. They need to go 12-11 to avoid the all time loss record of 120. A .223 ball club is gonna play above .500 the rest of the way? lol Yeah right. Doesn't look like they'll get to 40 wins. 

 

There's 23 games left and the schedule isn't easy either. 2 left against Baltimore, 3 each against Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, and San Diego all with winning records and playoff hopes to play for. They have 6 games left against the Angels and 3 more against Oakland who aren't good, but both clubs look like the 1976 Reds in comparison to the White Sox. I don't see a path to 9 wins there. 

 

Not only are they bad, but they are scientifically bad. If you field a roster of players good enough to reach the professional level of baseball you should accidentally win a third of your games simply on the inherent randomness of baseball and they're approaching the mathematical bottom of how bad a team could possibly be. To do what they've done with all these systems in place, like the draft and Latin America youth academies, free agency, systems designed to prevent a team from being this bad is fascinating. I never thought I'd see a team worse than the 03 Tigers and the White Sox very much are. 

 

I know people always joke about how Alabama could beat an NFL team, and the reality is that even a college all-star team would get smashed by the worst pro team, but in this case, could a AAA team be competitive against the White Sox?  I don't know their roster, but they are obviously not MLB-caliber players, so either "4A" or AAA, so I think it's possible that a AAA team (or maybe a AAA all-star team) could go .500 against them - maybe better.

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1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

I know people always joke about how Alabama could beat an NFL team, and the reality is that even a college all-star team would get smashed by the worst pro team, but in this case, could a AAA team be competitive against the White Sox?  I don't know their roster, but they are obviously not MLB-caliber players, so either "4A" or AAA, so I think it's possible that a AAA team (or maybe a AAA all-star team) could go .500 against them - maybe better.

 

Typical, every day AAA players can do all the things the typical, every day MLB player can do. The biggest difference between MLB players and AAA players is consistency. To answer your question, yes, I believe a good AAA team could go .500 against the current White Sox.

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5 hours ago, Sport said:

Not only are they bad, but they are scientifically bad. If you field a roster of players good enough to reach the professional level of baseball you should accidentally win a third of your games simply on the inherent randomness of baseball and they're approaching the mathematical bottom of how bad a team could possibly be. To do what they've done with all these systems in place, like the draft and Latin America youth academies, free agency, systems designed to prevent a team from being this bad is fascinating. I never thought I'd see a team worse than the 03 Tigers and the White Sox very much are. 

 

Reinsdorf overrode all of those systems by being obsessed with Tony La Russa and, most inscrutably, the 2015 Kansas City Royals. The La Russa thing, I get, but seeing the Bill Walsh coaching tree in the 2015 Royals, I, what is that. WHY.

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