Close the books on another White Sox season. 63 big wins! Today they didn't feel the need to protect the 100 level from Ligues but I don't think anyone ran onto the field.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

195 losses for Chicago baseball. Is that a record?

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I think it's the most since 1948.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I just looked it up. They lost 191 in '48 but it was the 154 game season so the percentages were worse.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

191 was the previous record, in, as JORR noted, 1948:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/ ... m-history/

You'll look back on this day fondly in 2018 when the "suck more than the Cubs" strategy finally pays off.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Every game the Cubs lost this season brought them that much closer to a championship.

Good riddance to 2013 Chicago baseball.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

You say that every year.

We need to go to a game next year.

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We can make that happen my friend.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

The White Sox have a goal to lose every game next year. I can't wait until the White Sox are the Yankees of the 2020's!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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meh.... this season at least had..... chris sale pitching? you could do a lot worse than having quintana and uhm.... is it santiago? those guys are decent. the losing pitcher is as the losing pitcher does, and i think they should have a solid bullpen going forward.... tho idk if it's quite as good as hawk thinks when he's chirping about how there's MAYBE only 2 or 3 teams in baseball that wouldn't trade their starting rotation with the white sox.

beckham is a dud offensively (i wonder if terry would trade him for ad-gonz now?) konerko is in a very real situation where the feelgood stuff isn't going to make up for him going ~.240/11/59 in ~380 at bats next year, watch the OAF light it up and hit .265/35/92 or something but invoke some clause that won't let him be traded.... or well, if he's doing his .189/17/42 thing around the ASB he won't exactly be a proper ransom on the open market.

i'm scared for this team offensively, as they don't seem to really have anyone who makes you go "yeah... they're coming!" with the exception of possibly avisail garcia. he finished up the season having a strong 3HR 8RBI week b4 tailing off for the last 2-3 games, so i think he'll get the chance to prove himself out there like we all wish "the cuban pimp" viciedo could.... from .260/25/78 to.... what, ~.250/12/40? yikes. tank my ass, the dude's the cuban pimp until he earns a better nickname.

in the end, i don't know if a season like this isn't without its charms in the wake of last season's bataan death march (where you knew by may-june that they were eventually going to get chased down by the tigers, and then as the season wore on it happened as slowly as possible after ~2-3 times where the lead would get within a game or 2 and then they'd jump back up to 3-4, only to ultimately go out with some sort of a prolonged wheeze that evolved into their last breath. there were so many bad losses mid-late last season to chump teams that it made the tigers' inevitable rally worthy of migcab's soundbyted laugh. it was horrible..... so i conjecture that this season was better insomuchas at least you knew where you stood on day one. there were no pretenses of anything other than a crap season this year, so it was a lot less painful in that sense.

welp, ozzie claims that hahn is a good guy who knows what he's doing so let's see if the white sox can shock the world and get some sort of a FA/trade cornerstone for their offense and then start adding the pieces around it, alongside the aforementioned avisail garcia and dayan viciedo stepping up and having 25/75 years. for a team that was so largely based on pitching/defense last season, when you take away offense from the mix and then the defense goes in teh shitter you're pretty much left with a team whose curmudgeony old mascot is left crowing about how only 2-3 teams in baseball wouldn't trade starting rotations with the white sox.

also, yaz.

and ummm...... yeah that's about it. at least it wasn't a bataan death march, and at least you had room to manuever around the ballpark without being surrounded by a mass of humantiy, that is unless you wanted to sit in the first ~2 rows of the shade-line in the upper deck on a muggy summer afternoon. shomer shabbos!

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99 losses for a team expected by many to at least contend for a wild card.....sad indeed.

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Go Cubs!!!!

They got a higher draft pick than the Cubs. They are now poised to compete in baseball's Super Bowl. A very successful year.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Its sad because they lost, when the team is good the last day of the season is usually great.

A nice calm before the storm

I thought it was fitting that they lost the last game. Quintana pitching "well enough to win" (but not really). That's been the whole year. There are many guys on this team I hope I never see in a Sox uniform again.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Ya know...when they won the 2005 series, they had 99 wins.

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@audioidkid

In March. Or sometimes February.

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Yeah, losing to the Cards in a game Szmardzija was barely passable and Castro went 0 for 4 and Rizzo went 1 for 4 is just about right for the Cubs