In his eyes, team owner Jerry Reinsdorf's loyalty to his allies, a lack of evolution with the game, and an inability to create structure, led to the creation of a culture that slowly killed the White Sox - a death by a thousand cuts, as opposed to one devastating blow that sent the franchise spiraling all at once.
The South Siders were also bottom five in doubles (31st - 226), team ERA (30th - 4.67), runs allowed (30th - 813), earned runs (29th - 737), home runs allowed (29th - 201) and opponents' batting average (28th - .255).
Once game No. 162 had come and gone, the White Sox were in sole possession of the most losses across a single season in Major League Baseball history (41-121), surpassing the likes of the 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119) and the 1962 New York Mets (42-120) as the stinkiest baseball team in the history of both the American League and MLB.
It's one thing to be a bad baseball team, but it takes a cataclysmic amount of dominos falling in the wrong direction to become as historically bad as the baseball team on the South Side of Chicago was in 2024.
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