White Sox 1983, White Sox 2013: What a Difference!

What a difference 30 years makes. Yesterday, the Sox "wrapped up" a 99-game losing season to end their 2013 season. Well, at least Peavey's gone. Other than one game, I don't think they scored more than nine runs in their last ten games. Mighty sad.

Looking back at my 1983 journal, on October 2nd, I wrote "The Sox closed out their season with a victory and won more games than anyone else, 99."

Let's see, 1983, 99 wins and 2013, 99 losses.

As bad as the Sox were this year, at least it wasn't a late season free-fall like last year when the Sox led most of the season, before a late September collapse and that pales even when compared to the 1967 season, when, with five games left in the season, the Sox were in first and playing the two worst teams in the American League, the Washington Senators (now Texas Rangers) and the Kansas City A's (now Oakland A's). All they had to do was win three games to clinch it. They lost all five to finish 4th in the American League.

This killed me for baseball even worse than the better-known '69 Cubs collapse. Just to show it was no fluke, the Sox opened the '68 season with ten straight losses.

Just Saying. --RoadDog