This is one factor that may’t be argued: The 2024 Chicago White Sox are the worst MLB workforce of the fashionable period, having misplaced their 121st recreation on Friday.
However are they worse than the worst NHL workforce of all time? How in regards to the NFL or NBA?
Let’s check out these legendarily terrible groups and see how they stack up towards the 2024 White Sox, who at the moment are the losingest workforce in trendy MLB historical past.
NFL: 2008 Detroit Lions, 0-16; 2017 Cleveland Browns, 0-16
Profitable zero video games is surprisingly arduous to do within the NFL, regardless of the comparatively small variety of video games in a season. Solely two groups within the 16-game period (1978-2020) ended their seasons with zero wins and 0 ties: the 2008 Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns. Whereas it is powerful being a fan of a baseball workforce that is dropping repeatedly over 162 video games, is it more durable to be a fan of a workforce that wins zero of 16 video games with a full week between most video games?
NBA: 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats, 7-59, .106 profitable proportion; 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, 9-73, .110 profitable proportion
There are two groups that may technically declare to be the worst NBA workforce of all time: the 2011-12 Bobcats and the 1972-73 76ers. That Bobcats workforce has the worst profitable proportion in NBA historical past, although they did it in a lockout-shortened 66-game season. The ’72-’73 Sixers workforce owns the worst document in a full 82-game season. Regardless of enjoying in a season 14 video games shorter than regular, the Bobcats should be right here for ending their season on an abysmal 23-game dropping streak.
NHL: 1974-75 Washington Capitals, 8–67–5, .131 profitable proportion
Of each workforce on this listing, the 1974-75 Capitals deserve essentially the most sympathy. That was their first season of existence as an enlargement workforce. And in contrast to groups in MLB and the NBA, NHL groups have a 3rd potential recreation final result: ties! (Ties are potential however uncommon within the NFL.) A tie is on the very least a change from dropping, and when your favourite workforce is dropping 67 video games in a season, any change is welcome.
MLB: 2024 White Sox, 39-121 (with 2 left to play), .244 profitable proportion
Due to the sheer variety of video games, it is powerful to match baseball to different sports activities. The 2024 White Sox have extra wins than each different workforce on this listing mixed, and none of these groups misplaced 121-plus video games in a season. That is what makes the MLB season so powerful. It is simply so long as the opposite three main sports activities (roughly six months), however groups play far more usually.
With the variations amongst all of the sports activities, is it potential to find out which of those was the worst? Ask the followers of any one among these groups, and so they’ll provide you with a convincing motive that their workforce deserves to be thought of the worst of all time. And in fact, there is no unsuitable reply.
However the White Sox have been so dangerous this season that surviving members of the 1962 New York Mets, the earlier worst-team record-holders, expressed sympathy for the 2024 White Sox squad. When one thing like that occurs, it is time to finish the competition.
