Gavin Sheets, now with the San Diego Padres, reflects on the Chicago White Sox's disastrous 2024 season where they only achieved 41 wins. The article recounts key moments, notably the infamous Rain Man game in May. As the Sox struggle again in 2025, their previous season's poor performance comes back to haunt players and fans alike. The upcoming series against the Boston Red Sox features the return of Garrett Crochet, further linking the current team's challenges with past failures of the franchise.
Sheets' new team, the San Diego Padres, had won its first seven games, so I asked whether he remembered when the 2024 Sox won their seventh game.
The Sox would win only 41 games in their record-setting season, so it's not hard to remember many of them.
The '24 Sox were officially laid to rest in October, but the '25 version is stirring up bad memories.
The 1962 New York Mets, whom the '24 Sox replaced in the record books, were immortalized in Jimmy Breslin's book, 'Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?'
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