Chicago White Sox poll

[metirish]

I'm a little surprised that the vote is 64% to 36%, I didn't expect the margin to be that wide in this way ( maybe the other way around I did )

[batmagadanleadoff]

Every team has a rich owner and is managed by people who want to win, but every day, exactly 50% of the ones that take the field lose.

That's not the point. We're talking about a team that's losing more than 75%, almost 80%, of all of its games. All of them. That is mind-boggling and hardly explained by the fact that every game, one team loses. This is more like flipping a coin and drawing "heads" 15 straight times.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't even know what to say. Every team goes though down stretches, but this is different. And the White Sox aren't an expansion team, or incapable of buying their way at least up to mediocrity. This is mindblowing.

Yes. A zillion times. Yes.

[Edgy MD]

I'm surprised I voted for the former.

I'm not particularly sentimental about the 1962 Mets record, but any day over the next few weeks that includes the White Sox beating the Yankees is a better day than one in which the Yankees beat the Sox, all other things being equal.

[Edgy MD]

Every team has a rich owner and is managed by people who want to win, but every day, exactly 50% of the ones that take the field lose.

That's not the point. We're talking about a team that's losing more than 75% of all of its games. All of them. That is mind-boggling and hardly explained by the fact that every game, one team loses. This is more like flipping a coin and drawing "heads" 15 straight times.

One bad break can break the coin.

If the Mets' commitment to Brett Baty was made more permanent by trading Vientos for pitching help; if it was Lindor and not Mauricio who tore his ACL on a seemingly innocuous start/stop play; if Joey Wendle hit well enough to stick and keep José Iglesias in Syracuse a few months longer, but not actually help himself; that could maybe cost the team dozens of games.

One bad break can sink a ship. A cascade of them can sink the ship with everybody on board. Big bucks and big brains are a hedge against bad luck, but no guarantee. Maybe a hedge fun manager is the right owner in that sense, but bad luck is coming at everybody, along with 29 other organizations with big bucks and big brains. Staying ahead of all that is hard from year to year. Staying ahead forever is nearly impossible, and I imagine the White Sox won't be the last team to make a run at this record. A few already have in recent decades.

I just know that Luis Robert, Jr., looked like he couldn't throw a ball 25 feet during the Mets/White Sox series. While he's never really had much of an arm, he's clearly compromised further by injury right now, but somehow the Sox have come to the conclusion that he's their best option to play center, and a lot must've gone wrong to put them in that position. But that, as you say, is baseball. The grave awaits us all and the rain falls on the just and the unjust, the snow on the living and the dead.

They all have the same wolf at their heels (to switch up the metaphor) that is now devouring the White Sox. It's what keeps baseball interesting.

[kcmets]

Today, the White Sox play the Orioles. I'm totally going for Balmer.