I waited as long as I could but it's finally over and now we bury both teams for the 2024 season.
Let's deal with the worst team first because their season ended in April with a 3-20 start and some would say it was over before they left spring training and I don't think a lot of baseball fans would disagree with that line of thinking.
THE WHITE SOX ARE THE WORST TEAM I HAVE EVER SEEN and I've watched baseball for many, many summers and seen a lot of garbage baseball on both sides of town but this is the worst, plain and simple. A brief look at the team.
Thru Tuesday night the highest batting average on the team is .243, followed by .241, .231 and .228. Then we freefall with 5 players batting in the teens and 4 more batting .199 or less. Team batting average of .219.
Please take your Tylenol now because the shaking of your head will only get worse as you read on.
Pitching has ALWAYS been a strong point on the south side but the starting 5 pitchers have records of 6-9, 2-6, 2-11, 1-6 and 0-6 and the current run difference between the Sox and their opponents is an incredible 288 runs, which means the bad guys are averaging almost 3 runs more than the Sox EVERY GAME.
One more loss and they will be eliminated from the pennant race with 6 weeks left to play!! But they recently fired the ASSISTANT batting coach so things should turn around pretty soon.ðŸ˜
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And now to the north side where things aren't much prettier. Cub fans all suffered through that 6 week offensive drought prior to the All Star break (.236 team average) which pushed them into the cellar of their division but to be perfectly honest, since then the team has played much better baseball all the way around but when you're chasing 6 teams for the final wild card spot, their playoff possibilities have faded like a dim lightbulb.
The Cubs have 41 games left and they trail both Arizona and San Diego by 8 games already so realistically, that leaves the only the third and final wild card spot up for grabs but I am going to give Cub fans some hope. Read on.
Of the 41 remaining games, they play the Yankees at home and the Dodgers and Phillies on the road plus the remaining game tonight against Cleveland. Now common sense tells you the best the Cubs can hope for is one win per series so tonight would be 1 and then add 3 more and they finish 4-8 against really good teams. So Dan, where is our hope?
After you finish getting your ass kicked by the premium teams, then you play 31 games against crappy teams just like yourself! Just imagine the possibility of success by playing Pittsburgh 6 times and Washington 7 times but wait, THERE'S MORE!!
31 games against teams with losing records and 5 of those teams ARE ALL IN LAST PLACE!!! And none of them have better records than the Cubs!
Are the Cubs the "most disappointing team in 2024" as awarded by the MLB channel or are they just late starters and good finishers? The next 6 weeks will give you that answer.
I have reserved 2 spots in the baseball cemetery.
Catch you later.
