#Chisox

[baseballsisco]

Well New York Mets fans, you can be glad that your 1962 Metropolitans no longer have the most season losses. That distinction is now held by the 2024 Chicago White Sox who now have lost 121 games with two games to go. Can they lose two more games? We'll have to wait and see.

[baseballfaxmachine]

one thing bout the 2024 red sox they WILL be at 500 dammit

[the-mighty-rio-grande]

i love when the chisox instagram posts their wins it's like a parent cheering for their toddler when they take like two steps on their own

[marner-hugs]

Jokes about him going to the ChiSox

[strawberryblondebutch]

do you... do you have strong feelings about the red sox? (when they are not playing against the phillies i mean)

(its sort of hard to have strong feelings about the red sox right now tbh and this is coming from somebody who has very strong feelings about the red sox)

You honestly said it best - it's hard to have strong feelings about them. Between the fact they exist in a perennial state of being a .500 team and the current roster construction, they sort of just... exist. Whether I root for or against them depends entirely on their opponent.

I want Nick Pivetta to succeed, because I don't think he was ever really given a fair shake in Philly. The fact we picked Vinny Velo of all people over him tells you that much. Picking up Liam Hendriks after the ChiSox screwed him over was a nice gesture. Fuck Alex Cora, I haven't forgotten about the sign-stealing.

[theultimatefan]

This Year’s White Sox Fall to ‘62 Mets In Strat-O-Matic ‘Worst Team Ever’ Simulation

A current 21-game losing streak has put this year’s Chicago White Sox (27-88, .235 winning percentage through Monday) on a pace for an even poorer record than the famed 1962 New York Mets, who at 40-120 (.250) are acknowledged by many as the worst team in modern Major League Baseball history. So how would the 2024 ChiSox fare against Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Felix Mantilla and the rest of Casey Stengel’s expansion Amazins?

Strat-O-Matic (@strat-o-matic), the market leader in sports simulation games, decided to put that to the test today, simulating a seven-game series between the two lowly squads. And the battle came down to Game 7, where Jay Hook pitched a complete game and Sammy Taylor hit a grand slam in the fourth inning for a 7-5 Mets win.

The 2024 White Sox, further depleted by trade deadline deals that sent away Michael Kopech, Tommy Pham, Eloy Jimenez, Tanner Banks and Paul DeJong, all starters or key "contributors," are on a pace to finish 38-124 based on their record to date. But Strat-O-Matic also decided to simulate the rest of this season with their current roster, and has the final record tabbed at 41-121.

In the ‘62 Mets series simulation, Chicago pitching, which has recorded an A.L.-worst 4.88 ERA, allowing the most walks (451), second most home runs (147) and fourth most hits (977) in actual MLB play to date, permitted 60 runs in the seven games for a 7.28 ERA that included 13 home runs and 41 walks. The ChiSox’s top hitter against New York was Luis Robert Jr., who hit .448 with two home runs and four RBI. Andrew Benintendi checked in at .316 with a home run and six RBI in the series.

Chicago won the first two games of the series and led, three games to two, but lost, 18-3 and 7-5 in the last two contests in New York.

Game 1

Chicago....... 2 0 1  1 2 0  0 0 0  1 -  7 14  2

New York...... 0 1 0  4 0 0  0 1 0  0 -  6  9  1

WP: Ellard; LP: Daviault; SV: Kuhl

HR: Robert Jr., Vaughn, Thomas

Game 2

Chicago....... 0 0 2  0 0 1  0 5 0  -  8 11  1

New York...... 0 1 3  0 0 0  0 2 0  -  6  8  0

WP: Anderson; LP: Jackson; SV: Kuhl

HR: Vargas, Mantilla, Thomas 2, Hickman

Game 3

New York...... 0 0 1  0 0 0  0 4 0  1 -  6 11  2

Chicago....... 0 0 0  0 1 2  0 2 0  0 -  5  8  0

WP: Mackenzie; LP: Brebbia

HR: Fletcher

Game 4

New York...... 1 0 0  0 3 1  2 0 0  -  7  9  3

Chicago....... 0 0 0  0 0 1  0 0 2  -  3  7  2

WP: Miller; LP: Martin

HR: Mantilla

Game 5

New York...... 0 7 0  0 0 0  1 0 2  - 10 12  0

Chicago....... 2 0 0  6 0 0  3 4    - 15 14  2

WP: Shuster; LP: Mackenzie

HR: Hodges, Robert Jr., Sosa

Game 6

Chicago....... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 3  -  3  7  0

New York...... 0 0 6  1 0 1  010    - 18 17  2

WP: Jackson; LP: Flexen

HR: Vaughn, Mantilla 2, Thomas 2, Throneberry

Game 7

Chicago....... 3 0 0  1 0 1  0 0 0  -  5  7  1

New York...... 0 1 1  4 0 0  1 0    -  7  8  2

WP: Hook; LP: Cannon

HR: Benintendi, Lee, Taylor

[jdubqca]

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let’s break it up boys and so the huddle at the mound gives way to an impending fastball the home plate umpire calls it a strike —he’s a regular douchebag the stadium is jam-packed copping a buzz on bud light & goose island the chisox are back on top taking on the loveable losers in comiskey there’s a good chance of rain but there’s nary an umbrella in sight this place doesn’t have a…

[blvck-vl]

#chisox

Da South Side

[coolthingsguyslike]

[baseballsisco]

Happy Thursday peeps!!! Here is my MLB Immaculate Grid number 374!!!

This has to be the most random grid I've put together. There really is no rhyme or reason to it aside from Wade Boggs having pitched at least one game and a 40+ WAR for his career. After that (and Nolan Ryan as Houston's 40+ WAR Career) I really had to dig deep in the baseball card box to find the other seven players.

I rememebered working in the bar for that game that Reyes pitched for the Mets. It was something like a 20 point deficit when he took the mound. How I rememberd that Josh Harrison pitched at least once for the White Sox? I have no clue. I just did.

Evan Longoria for a 40+ career WAR got Tampa was a no brainer. He was their franchise player for many years. Mannywood dropped significantly ending up with Tampa Bay, the Chisox and Taiwan before hanging up the cleats. Joey Bats was also a former shell of himself playing in Tampa Bay and the Mets after leaving Toronto.

Mike Scott and the Mets had quite the history. Going back to when Scott made life a living hell for the 1986 Mets. They were convinced that he was scuffing the ball against them, collecting multiple buckets of game used balls to catch him. And they couldn't. Scott from almost single handedly derailed the hopes of the 108-win Mets. Aside from winning the 1986 NL Cy Young Award, Scott went 2-0 against the Mets in the NLCS with a 0.50 ERA, 2 complete games and 1 shutout. In total he gave up 8 hits, struck out 19 Mets while walking only 1. He was so good that he became the first player to win the NLCS MVP on a losing team. Any guess who was the second player to win the NLCS MVP for the losing team? Take a guess in the comments section.

Well, I'll leave you for now. On to grid number 375!!!

[anthrofreshtodeath]

TA with the Jeter!

[soxjanitor]

RIP Sox Baseball on WGN

Nobody:

Literally no one:

WGN: 

Ah, yes, the sports theme song of my youth. When I was a lad in my late teens my favourite TV broadcast by far was White Sox baseball on, then, Superstation WGN (channel 60 on Buckeye Cable). I saw this was uploaded a while back and it was an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. Spending weekends during school and weeknights in the summer drinking CocaCoca: C2 (remember that?) in my room, listen to Ken “Hawk” Harrelson calling games before he went senile, the basic but useful black, orange, and white score bug.

Today’s game between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox from Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago will be the last White Sox game on WGN America. No more. It's over. In 1948 CE the White Sox and WGN agreed on a TV broadcast deal, just two days after WGN signed a TV deal with the Cubs. In 1948 WGN would broadcast all 21-night games at then Comiskey Park. a 72-year-old relationship is officially over.

If you’ve read my past post  Why Am I A White Sox Fan? You’ll know that I’m not a native Chicagoan, I don’t live in Chicago, or even in the Chicago sports market. I grew up, and still live, in the Toledo suburbs. The Sox being on WGN was one of my few chances to watch the games back then. I live in the heart of Tigers; and Indians’ territory, so luckily I got to see the Sox when they played those teams on the local FSN affiliates. And during the World Series year of 2005, and a few years after when they were still a relevant team, on national broadcasts on ESPN or FOX.

But the nice thing about WGN was that those games were the White Sox feed. Hawk Harrelson doing play-by-play with colour commentator (no pun intended “DJ” Darren Jackson, and then in 2009 Steve Stone. It was actually kind of something I was smarmy about back then too. Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, Mets, etc fans never got THEIR home broadcast nationally (*ESPN bias joke*). The only real downside was when WGN games were against the Indians and Tigers because well, I got to see those games anyway and to me, it felt like a waste. But alas.

WGN mostly aired Cubs games, which makes sense since WGN was owned by the Tribune Company. The Tribune also owned the Cubs. So naturally, their cash cow subsidiary they owned would get 75% of the broadcasts on their channel. It honestly didn’t bother me. Even back then when the Sox were pretty much my whole life I didn’t need to watch every Sox game. A few years down the road I would order MLB.TV and watching every Sox game, even when they usually had winning records was kind of a chore. People who watch most of the 162 game schedule are champs. I simply cannot do it.

Buy anywho as the Sox got shittier and shittier they appeared less, and less on FOX, ESPN, and TBS national broadcasts. And as I started going to University and working 5 nights a week at a local pizza chain I got to watch baseball less and less. Catching the Sox once a week or every 10 days or so dwindled down to catching the last few innings of a game in Oakland, Seattle, or Anaheim after I got off work or going to my dads and watching the Sunday baseball game on WGN, sometimes being the Cubs. 

After the 2014 season, WGN America (the rebranded name of Superstation WGN starting in 2008) pulled all sports broadcasts (Cubs and Bulls too) off of the national broadcast and only aired them in Chicago. The past few years my viewership of Sox baseball is down to the Indians and Tigers games when they’re on TV when I’m not working (which is comically rare), against the Reds now every 3 years, or rando ESPN, FOX, TBS national broadcasts, which are also comically rare considering the Sox haven’t had a winning record since 2012 (LOL!).

Even though I haven’t enjoyed a Sox game on WGN in five seasons, I just want to thank WGN and the Tribune Co. for giving me a taste of Chicago even though I lived 250 miles east, and two states over. The Sox were such a big part of my life when I was younger, and it's sad to see an era come to an end.

[anygivengameday]

Chicago White Sox at Oakland Athletics

Sunday, September 11, 2022

RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, CA

[strawberryblondebutch]

Ideal trade deadline:

Get Bellinger from the Cubs

Cease from the ChiSox

Dansby sneaks onto the trade plane and we exchange him for Tr*a T*rner

I become friends with Mallory

[motherforquer]

ED-DIE! ED-DIE! Game 3, 1983 Championship Series vs Chi Sox. . . . #eddiemurray #baltimoreorioles #orioles #oriolesnation #oriolesgame #baseball #oriolesmagic #oriolesbaseball #1983 #gamemvp #whitesox #whitesoxgame #chisox #orioleswin (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUKsD02Lt-t/?utm_medium=tumblr