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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2225: The White Sox Unfun-Fact-Off

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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In (dis)honor of the 2024 White Sox displacing the 1962 Mets atop the modern-era single-season losses leaderboard, Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens, and Yahoo Sports’s Jordan Shusterman conduct a draft of facts and stats about this record-setting Sox season, scored by Sox Machine White Sox reporter James Fegan, who also describes covering the team’s disastrous play.

Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to MLB.com on loss 121
Link to Reinsdorf letter
Link to EW Episode 762
Link to EW Episode 1730
Link to Sox season preview pod
Link to worst team hitter WAR
Link to CBS on Sox stats
Link to ESPN on Sox stats
Link to FG payroll page
Link to list of worst records
Link to Sox splits
Link to Getz on Sox last year
Link to Getz on Sox this year
Link to Sox WAR leaderboard
Link to Sox booing 1
Link to Sox booing 2
Link to Sox booing 3
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to losing streak fact
Link to 2023 FG Sox post
Link to Baumann on 121
Link to The Athletic deep dive
Link to ESPN deep dive
Link to qualified Sox hitters
Link to worst qualified hitters
Link to team OBP laggards
Link to team OBP+ laggards
Link to MLBTR on Zaidi/Posey
Link to MLBTR on Mozeliak/Bloom
Link to uniforms changes
Link to ESPN Rose obit
Link to Washington comments
Link to EW preseason predictions
Link to EW 2163 Stat Blast
Link to Ruiz save game
Link to GF w/o a save leaders

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0:00.0

Upstance in entry, they will be allowed to me.

0:04.7

That's why I'm not

0:06.8

for special guests, free series switching in pure poetry.

0:10.8

That's how I'm baseball. poetry as well as well as many as well.

0:13.0

Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild Baseball

0:28.0

podcast.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2225 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

0:36.6

podcast from fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

0:40.1

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by megg rally of fangrass hello megg it's all happening

0:46.9

there's a lot going on we are recording on Monday afternoon there's an L wild card

0:52.4

madness in progress the giants have fired

0:55.3

Far Han's ID and replaced him with Buster Posey as their president of baseball

1:00.0

operations he will henceforth be known as Buster Po Bo-boe on this podcast

1:04.1

presumably but we're not going to talk about any of that right now and we're not

1:08.1

going to talk about the playoffs because we're going to have our fill of that over the

1:11.5

next month or so this is our last opportunity for a

1:14.4

while to talk about something other than post-season baseball and for our topic we have

1:19.3

chosen the furthest thing from post-season baseball, the Chicago White Sox. We've had this in mind for a while. I think this was initially

1:27.5

proposed by Patreon supporter listener Andrew M, who back at the end of August beginning of September said I feel like once the season is done we need a

1:36.2

2024 white socks fun fact draft on the pot and I've been thinking about it ever since

1:42.0

Andrew also said that 2024 White Sox fun facts are the new

1:45.7

peak PEDs bonds fun facts. There are so many fun ways to parse just how bad they are, exclamation point.

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