This Is BY FAR The Most Remarkable Baseball Statistic I Have Ever Seen: The Chicago White Sox Are 39 Games Out Of 4th Place

This is a picture of the American League standings from ESPN.com. You can investigate for yourself here if you don't believe me. It's very much true. 

And just a quick recap on the surrounding parts here: 

- The Guardians are playing under 1st year manager Stephen Voigt like relegation's on the table if the lose 2 in-a-row. They never strikeout and the bullpen is consistently one of the sport's best.

- Kansas City is battling to be the 1st team in MLB history to lose 100 games and then make the playoffs. 

- The Twins are arguably the most underrated regular season franchise since Brad Radke retired and this year proves no different. 

- The Tigers are marginally above average with room to grow in the long run. Tarik Skubal certainly established himself as one of the absolute best arms in baseball this year. 

And then 39 games behind them are the 108-loss Chicago White Sox. Thirty-nine out of 2nd-to-last place in the division. 39 behind the Detroit Tigers for being distantly out of the playoff chase. 

You can give me all the statistics on how much this team sucks. Just recently I saw that Zack Greinke has an identical career slugging percentage to this 2024 club combined (.336). They're 4 for their last 41 and arguably not winning another game if the calendar is right. 

I'm not trying to shit on a team that's actively rebuilding. And I have kept a fair distance from trolling White Sox fans this year under the direct knowledge that you guys are actually capable and motivated to cause harm. I'm not trying to add more evil to this world but rather illuminate sheer incompetence on 35th street. 

They could go undefeated the rest of the season and still win less than 55 games. UNDEFEATED THE REST OF THE SEASON I SAID. 

54-108 

My dad's a diehard and it legitimately hurts to talk baseball with him now. Poor guy won't turn off the American History Channel to even check a box score. And sadly is that I know there are so many older, genuine, salt-of-the-earth White Sox fans that are suffering with each series loss. 

For that I have no words. If Chris Getz's solutions this year are any indications, all of you will be dead before another meaningful game is played on home turf. I'm sorry to be so blunt. 

Fortunately you'll be happy to know the Cubs bullpen erupted in tragic fashion at the end of yet another Most Important Game of the Season. And now we send Kyle Hendricks out to square off against Paul Skenes, probably the #1 choice for anyone building a rotation right now. Good chance we end up in the exact same place just with a fraction of the embarassment. 

So let's look forward together to Caleb Williams debut this weekend. Anticipated forever but still a touch sneaky-sneaky now that it's arrived. Would be nice to see the Cubs go undefeated leading up. Would be nice to see the White Sox cancel the season and stop making vendors work 2,000 paid attendance. Would be nice for a lot of things around Chicago to be better than they currently are which is why, again, I look to Caleb's debut. 

Is he a hall of famer tomorrow? I haven't watched enough tape. 

But I can guarantee the Bears won't be 39 fuckin games behind the Vikings come Thanksgiving. And in some fucked up way, at least that feels good. 

PS - Go Bears