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Hello and welcome to episode 2189 of Effectively Wild,

a Baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Meg rally of fan graphs. Hello Meg.

Hello. Let me tell you about a new little statistical quirk I'm tracking for the rest of the season or for as long as it remains true.

It's in the genre of White Sox fail facts so we're tracking obviously everyone's tracking just how bad will the white socks be and the answer so far very bad

Everyone the entire nation there's not a single person in the United States just not like those white socks I got to keep an eye on them.

We're all glued to our tickers just trying to find out whether the white socks will lose and

usually they come through in that respect and they're 27 and 68 now. So that is a 284 winning percentage. It's been worse. That's actually better than it's been.

Maybe they should just switch to losing percentage instead of providing winning

percentage for the white socks because it sounds more impressive instead of saying a

284 winning percentage you could say a 716 losing percentage.

And that sounds, you know, better somehow it's a bigger number.

Well, regardless, they are on pace for 116 losses and so we'll all be tracking that as they try to avoid

setting a new record for futility for losses in the season despite the fact that they're probably

about to trade two or three of their best players potentially later this month.

But here is just the white socks in microcosm, a tiny little stat that stands for the holistic failure of the squad. Second

baseman for the white socks have not homered yet. White Sox second baseman are homerless this season. Anyone who has

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