The social media team behind this Chicago sports franchise did the funniest thing.
In a season when the 2024 Chicago White Sox will likely go down as the worst Major League Baseball club in modern history, the person or persons managing its social media accounts did the unthinkable—they trolled their own team.
Usually, after a game, a sports team’s social media account posts the final score, whether it’s a win or a loss.
The White Sox’s current record of 36-120, the worst in American League history, is so bad that the social media team appears to have stopped posting final scores.
“FINAL: the other team scored more runs than us,” read a posting to the team’s X account after a devastating extra-innings loss to the Los Angeles Angels.
FINAL: the other team scored more runs than us
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 18, 2024
After a brutal weekend that saw the team get swept by the San Diego Padres, the social media team released a series of self-deprecating posts and memes.
FINAL: the number of runs we scored was not greater than the number of runs they scored
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 21, 2024
FINAL: can be found on the MLB app
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 22, 2024
This is the latest gem.
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 22, 2024
Of course, with a season this bad, the Sox have gotten their share of ridicule and pity, the latter coming from one of the most famous writers of our time.
Chicago White Sox fans, I feel your pain. As a fan of those other Sox, I tried to switch my loyalty to Cleveland during one particularly awful season (Butch Hobson, I’m talking about you). I couldn’t do it.
Things will get better. They CAN’T get worse.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) September 23, 2024
Others weren’t so kind.
This coulda just been your copy and paste tweet all szn
— ⚾️ Shoeless Dro Jackson 👟 (@SavageNtheBox) September 19, 2024
And if you think things can’t get any worse for this franchise, there’s this fact to consider: After tying the much-maligned 1962 New York Mets for most losses in modern MLB history, all the White Sox would need is one more loss out of the six regular-season games remaining to break the record.
All hope is not lost, however. The team is poised to get an infusion of young talent when key prospects join the major league club over the next few years.
Plus, when a team is this bad, the cost to attend a game can be amazingly cheap. The Sox will play at Guaranteed Rate Field against the Angels from Tuesday to Thursday. According to Ticketmaster, the cheapest tickets were $6—about the price of two deluxe candy bars.
The best part?
It’s almost over.
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