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AZLD4Candidate

(6,243 posts) Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:16 PM Aug 30

White Sox approaching MLB record for losses draws sympathy from surviving 1962 Mets

With the calendar on the verge of turning to September, the Chicago White Sox have already surpassed 100 losses this season. Going into Labor Day weekend, the White Sox have 27 games remaining on their schedule and are 17 losses away from breaking the major league record for most losses in a single season.

The 1962 New York Mets lost 120 games, a mark that lives in baseball infamy, a record with which no MLB team wants to be associated. The 2003 Detroit Tigers came close, very close, to matching the Mets, losing 119 games. Recent teams that also challenged the '62 Mets were the 2018 Baltimore Orioles (115) and the 2019 Tigers (114).

https://www.aol.com/sports/white-sox-approaching-mlb-record-002411419.html

As a die hard Mets fan, I am rooting for them to break the 120 loss plateau so my team isn't the worst in modern history. Plus, it is such a great accomplishment in crappiness that will be remembered forever. 119 losses is bad, but not 121 bad.

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White Sox approaching MLB record for losses draws sympathy from surviving 1962 Mets (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate Aug 30 OP

Stengel Tarzanrock Aug 30 #1

"Can't anybody here play this game?" rsdsharp Aug 30 #2

Thay Sympathy Will Fall Flat Around Here ProfessorGAC Aug 31 #3

I just don't want the Mets to be considered the worst team in modern baseball history, even though the 1962 Mets AZLD4Candidate Aug 31 #4

Pretty Good Excuse ProfessorGAC Aug 31 #5

Their excuse is their owner. He's a fool. AZLD4Candidate Aug 31 #6

No Argument ProfessorGAC Aug 31 #7

Tarzanrock

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1. Stengel

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:23 PM

Aug 30

"The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader." -- Casey Stengel

rsdsharp

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2. "Can't anybody here play this game?"

Reply to Tarzanrock (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:29 PM

Aug 30

Apparently not.

ProfessorGAC

(69,558 posts)

3. Thay Sympathy Will Fall Flat Around Here

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Sat Aug 31, 2024, 06:12 PM

Aug 31

Sox fans I know are livid. I'm a Cubs fan, but I'm not gloating over their misery.

AZLD4Candidate

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4. I just don't want the Mets to be considered the worst team in modern baseball history, even though the 1962 Mets

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 31, 2024, 06:18 PM

Aug 31

were a year one expansion team with players that either should never have been in MLB or should have retired five years earlier. That roster was a who's who of MLB scrubs.