As a Cardinals fan, I suffered through seasons like 1990 and the lean-spending Dal Maxvill years pre-LaRussa in the early '90s. But nothing compared to the White Sox this year.
I had family members who were long-suffering Braves fans (the step-side of my family has always been in Georgia). They were in the same general category of bad as your team this season, and it went on for like 6 seasons. I would imagine they feel your pain. Maybe you can argue that they were "building" towards their big 14-year run that started in 1991, but I don't care who you are, no one saw that coming. They didn't think there was any hope in sight.
Replies to: "Thankfully never."
- Has anyone else been a lifelong fan of MLB team worse than this year’s White Sox? - Curly1918 - 6:02pm 9/2/24
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- The Tigers in 2003, 119 losses. Painful! Fortunately they got Leyland and he turned it around fast. [NT]
- Hibakusha - 11:15am 9/3/24
- Just remembered. Didn’t they also have real shitty recent year in the late teens? [NT]
- Frank L - 12:07pm 9/3/24
- Yup and thanks for the reminder! 2019. They are above .500 now and hopefully back. [NT]
- Hibakusha - 1:46pm 9/3/24
- Yup. Remember rooting for them in the 68 WS when a young kid. Gibby for the Cards. He struck out 17 - Frank L - 3:53pm 9/3/24
- I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Gibson, always admired him. I mentioned it was tough - Hibakusha - 4:23pm 9/3/24
- Complete game. McLain had a sore arm but still won Game 6. [NT] - Frank L - 4:39pm 9/3/24
- I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Gibson, always admired him. I mentioned it was tough - Hibakusha - 4:23pm 9/3/24
- Yup. Remember rooting for them in the 68 WS when a young kid. Gibby for the Cards. He struck out 17 - Frank L - 3:53pm 9/3/24
- Yup and thanks for the reminder! 2019. They are above .500 now and hopefully back. [NT]
- Hibakusha - 1:46pm 9/3/24
- Just remembered. Didn’t they also have real shitty recent year in the late teens? [NT]
- Frank L - 12:07pm 9/3/24
- I was going to say the early 90's Indians....but I see that the CHISOX are going to blow past them. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:11am 9/3/24
- Lifelong White Sox / Cubs fan. I do lean Southside though. - ELP - 9:34pm 9/2/24
- The Sox fans I know really don’t like the Cubs. The Cubs fans I know look down on the Sox and their - Frank L - 10:18am 9/3/24
- Teams that bad are sorta charming - Chris94 - 8:40pm 9/2/24
- I can buy into that if there's something "scrappy" about such a team. This is not the case here. - jakers - 10:28am 9/3/24
- In fairness, William the Conqueror was building a dynasty in the 1060s. - Rooney - 7:38am 9/3/24
- Oops. [NT] - Hibakusha - 11:15am 9/3/24
- Would have been a hell of a match up with the 1960’s Lombardi Packers. [NT] - Frank L - 10:33am 9/3/24
- The 76ers won 9 games 1972-73 [NT]
- MarkHarman - 6:46pm 9/2/24
- Indeed. Attended a few of those games. None were W’s. Also remember in 72, Phils won 57 or 59 games, - Frank L - 10:24am 9/3/24
- Rick Wise off the top of my head [NT]
- MarkHarman - 1:02pm 9/3/24
- Winnah! One of the most lopsided trades in MLB history. [NT] - Frank L - 3:41pm 9/3/24
- Rick Wise off the top of my head [NT]
- MarkHarman - 1:02pm 9/3/24
- Indeed. Attended a few of those games. None were W’s. Also remember in 72, Phils won 57 or 59 games, - Frank L - 10:24am 9/3/24
- Thankfully never. - jakers - 6:34pm 9/2/24
- The Brewers had some rough years. - NDWisconsin - 6:16pm 9/2/24
- Only teams I remember in the league of this bunch were some of the late 80’s O’s teams, and the - Frank L - 10:04am 9/3/24
- None of those Brewers squads were as bad as this year's Sox. - MAS - 11:03pm 9/2/24
- The Tigers in 2003, 119 losses. Painful! Fortunately they got Leyland and he turned it around fast. [NT]
- Hibakusha - 11:15am 9/3/24