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The mad lads have finally done it! The 2024 White Sox finally got loss 121 tonight vs Detroit.


Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox Twitter is resigned to their fate.

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The Oakland Athletics played their last game against the Texas Rangers yesterday. End of an era for the A’s in Oakland

https://sports.yahoo.com/athletics-...J6-Zgw5OHo3CGr4yGQfi8Vs1kmcsaxMW6SjZ0g79QN-04

56 years in Oakland, back-to-back World Series titles in the early 1970s and then some in 1989, a poverty franchise sure but a franchise that always knew how to create amazing teams on a budget. Sacramento is next up for the A’s briefly followed by a move to Vegas in 2028.
 
Ohtani's complete meme/video game tier of a season continues. He's now at 54 homers and 57 steals with 2 games to go in Colorado.

He's been on such a tear that he's technically within striking distance of the Triple Crown (although it would be miraculous for him to actually win it).

Dave Roberts has said that he won't sit him for either of these last 2 games, so let's add to the legendary season with some more bombastic fun.

It appears that the Dodgers' recipe for postseason success will be to try and let the starting pitchers not fuck it up too badly so that their bullpen can put the clamps on the opposition batters while the Dodgers' own lineup tries to hit their way to victory.

Will it work ? Well, I'd certainly like to think so...there's also the fact that all kinds of craziness usually ensues in the Playoffs...and I also haven't forgotten that Roberts will usually have more than a few fuck ups. Only one way to find out.
 
I want to take a moment to appreciate how magnificent the failure of the White Sox actually is. This surpasses "historically bad" into legend status.

The Sox have just accomplished a 121-loss season. For reference at how baffling this is, let's take a look at the other contenders for greatest fuck-ups of all time.

1899 Cleaveland Spiders: 134 Losses

The 1899 Cleaveland Spiders were a franchise intentionally left to die. Its owners purchased another team and moved everyone of value to St. Louis. The remainders were completely incapable of doing anything, intentionally. It takes genuine sabotage to manage to be this bad.


1962 New York Mets: 120 Losses

The 1962 New York Mets were an expansion team. The Mets committed 210 errors on the season and allowed 147 earned runs. The other expansion team that year, the Houston Colt .45s, won 24 more games. The Mets front office spent only $600,000 on player salaries to field that first team. The average age on the team was almost 29 years old.


As the season draws to a close it would be fun to immortalize just how atrocious the sox are, but there is still a few games left for them to break even more records.
 
Look on the bright side, I bet people bought tickets to watch them fuck up. Those assholes have been begging for a new park for years too. Asking for state money for it too.

Illinois has to hand out gibs damn it, they got no money for them.
 
Cyberpunk Meta said:
The Oakland Athletics played their last game against the Texas Rangers yesterday. End of an era for the A’s in Oakland

https://sports.yahoo.com/athletics-...J6-Zgw5OHo3CGr4yGQfi8Vs1kmcsaxMW6SjZ0g79QN-04

56 years in Oakland, back-to-back World Series titles in the early 1970s and then some in 1989, a poverty franchise sure but a franchise that always knew how to create amazing teams on a budget. Sacramento is next up for the A’s briefly followed by a move to Vegas in 2028.
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I'm not an A's fan, but those early 2000's teams with Hudson, Mulder and Zito at the top of the rotation will always hold a special place in my heart.
 
I haven't posted here in a while, sorry for the shitpost it was retarded.

This season has been memorable, I was worried about the pitch clock but that wasn't really noticable after a while. Still hate the extra innings shit.

AL:

All wrapped up
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Watched the final a's home game, sad. The post game was especially desperate. A lot of clips over here https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/oak...rts-california-dallas-braden-bip-roberts.html

Judge with another historic season.

The Tigers made the post season! I had a late friend who loved them RIP buddy thinking about you.

The Royals also haven't made it since the 2015 WS win, them and the Tigers are your underdogs.

NL:
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Just a few games left and it's a 3 way tie for the last 2 spots. Tiebreakers are in favor of the Braves, then Mets, then Diamondbacks so if it ends tied 3 ways Arizona is out. Mets vs Braves double header due to the hurricane/tropical storm weather to end the season will be exciting.

Ohtani insane season from the interpreter drama to the record breaking 50+/50+, one for the books. Crazy that he will probably pitch next year.

In irellevant non playoff race games a marlins player got 3 triples which rarely happens. https://www.mlb.com/marlins/video/xavier-edwards-hits-three-triples-in-four-hit-night

Let's hope the post season is as good a surprise as the regular season was with my low expectations of current day baseball.
 
Tip o' the cap to Kyle Hendricks, who likely just pitched his last game in a Cubs (or any?) jersey. When you start showing up in lists with the likes of Brown, Vaughn, Root, Jenkins, and Maddux, you've been a damned good Cub pitcher. He was taken out of the game by pitching coach Tommy Hottovy who has probably seen every pitch Kyle has ever thrown as a MLB pitcher.

7.1 IP, 2 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 0 R, 0 ER

The highlight of his Cubs career will always be outdueling Clayton Kershaw to win Game 6 of the 2016 NLCS to send the Cubs to the World Series for the first time in 71 years.
 
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Gay Communist Gun Club said:
There were some straight up studs coming out of college this year. Charlie Condon (3rd to Colorado) from Georgia went .433/.556/1.009 with 37 HR in 304 PA.

We'll see how this translates to wood bats.
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So as a follow up, Charlie Condon had a miserable stint at High-A Spokane (a fair assignment for an advanced college bat expected to move quickly) to the extent that one scouting podcast I listen to said, "Right now, we don't know if he can't hit a breaking ball."
Kier said:
I want to take a moment to appreciate how magnificent the failure of the White Sox actually is. This surpasses "historically bad" into legend status.

The Sox have just accomplished a 121-loss season. For reference at how baffling this is, let's take a look at the other contenders for greatest fuck-ups of all time.

1899 Cleaveland Spiders: 134 Losses

The 1899 Cleaveland Spiders were a franchise intentionally left to die. Its owners purchased another team and moved everyone of value to St. Louis. The remainders were completely incapable of doing anything, intentionally. It takes genuine sabotage to manage to be this bad.


1962 New York Mets: 120 Losses

The 1962 New York Mets were an expansion team. The Mets committed 210 errors on the season and allowed 147 earned runs. The other expansion team that year, the Houston Colt .45s, won 24 more games. The Mets front office spent only $600,000 on player salaries to field that first team. The average age on the team was almost 29 years old.


As the season draws to a close it would be fun to immortalize just how atrocious the sox are, but there is still a few games left for them to break even more records.
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The problem with the Sox is that Jerry Reinsdorf actually is a huge baseball fan and can't get out of his own way. The Athletic did a deep dive in why they're so hopelessly fucked up, and it all starts and ends with ownership.
 
Hey does anyone know how to listen to radio streams of baseball, because the dodgers are region locked and I prefer the radio team to the broadcasting team.
 
Major Filth said:
Tip o' the cap to Kyle Hendricks, who likely just pitched his last game in a Cubs (or any?) jersey. When you start showing up in lists with the likes of Brown, Vaughn, Root, Jenkins, and Maddux, you've been a damned good Cub pitcher. He was taken out of the game by pitching coach Tommy Hottovy who has probably seen every pitch Kyle has ever thrown as a MLB pitcher.

7.1 IP, 2 H, 2 K, 2 BB, 0 R, 0 ER

The highlight of his Cubs career will always be outdueling Clayton Kershaw to win Game 6 of the 2016 NLCS to send the Cubs to the World Series for the first time in 71 years.
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Good to see he had a decent final outing. He threw up some stinkers this year.
 
Can somebody PLEASE get Luis Robert Jr. out of South Chicago? Granted he had a pretty bad season this year but I more or less fully blame him being stuck on the White Sox. I hope a team uses the bad season as a cover to get Jerry to not ask for the world for him.
 
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