They ain't the Brewers or the Cubs. Since becoming a franchise, 70% of all the White Sox' seasons have been winning ones, so when you say they have a poor history as a team, you're a moron. They are a perennial good and competitive team. And you should all be proud that the Sox are always good and always enjoyable to follow.

Have thrown a WS more recently than they have won one.

 

Moron, eh? Perennial good, eh? Grammar, eh?

Being average isn't anything to celebrate or to put down. Just take it for what it is and don't jump to far onto either side of the fence.

They ain't the Brewers or the Cubs. Since becoming a franchise, 70% of all the White Sox' seasons have been winning ones, so when you say they have a poor history as a team, you're a moron. They are a perennial good and competitive team. And you should all be proud that the Sox are always good and always enjoyable to follow.

How many of those 70% winning seasons actually made the playoffs? What's our playoff percentage? What's our World Series percentage? Abysmal...

They ain't the Brewers or the Cubs. Since becoming a franchise, 70% of all the White Sox' seasons have been winning ones, so when you say they have a poor history as a team, you're a moron. They are a perennial good and competitive team. And you should all be proud that the Sox are always good and always enjoyable to follow.

 

Three cheers for mediocrity!! Hip, hip, hooray!! Hip, hip hooray!! Hip, hip hooray!!

 

Give me a break...I'm 23 and I'm gonna have an ulcer from following the sox for the past ten years.

 

Theres a reason why the sox are always an average team. Reinsdorf has consistently put a mediocre product on the field that shows some resemblence of a contender. Solid yet unspectacular teams put fans in the seats for six months and fall into oblivion year after year somewhere between August 15 and October 15. Well before the World Series ever begins.

 

This team has never decided to rebuild from the ground level. Part of it is simple economics. Upper Management fears that if they put a terrible team (i.e. the 2003, 2004 Indians teams) on the field the fans won't ever come back once the team is rebuilt. To be honest, I partially agree with them. They skate on thin ice in this town year in and year out...Playing second fiddle to the Cubs is not an easy proposition.

Check my post history, I'm not a consistent whiner on this board. I just call it like I see it.

Edited September 20, 200520 yr by Chisoxrd5

I don't know why the Cubs are lumped into this either. They've won just as many World Series as we have and they have 14 post season appearances to our 7. Hows that for describing our great history?

70% and they've never been in the post season in back-to-back years.

They ain't the Brewers or the Cubs. Since becoming a franchise, 70% of all the White Sox' seasons have been winning ones, so when you say they have a poor history as a team, you're a moron. They are a perennial good and competitive team. And you should all be proud that the Sox are always good and always enjoyable to follow.

If you go back to 1901, the innaugural year of the so called modern era of baseball, the White Sox are now in their 105th season as a bona fide major league baseball team. In that time the White Sox have had 57 winning seasons, 44 losing seasons and 4 in which they finished .500. So the White Sox have had a winning record 54.3% of the time. The breakdown by decade is as follows.

 

1901-1909 8-1 Won pennant in 01, no WS played. Won pennant and WS in 06

1910-1919 7-3 Won WS in 17, lost in 19

1920-1929 3-6-1

1930-1939 3-7

1940-1949 2-7-1

1950-1959 9-1 "Golden Age" Last pennant in 59 lost WS to Dodgers

1960-1969 8-2 "Golden Age" ends in 67. Near misses in 64 and 67

1970-1979 2-7-1

1980-1989 4-6 Great 83 season ends tragically against O's

1990-1999 6-4 Lost LCS to Toronto in 93. Strike ko's hopes in 94

2000-2005 5-0-1 Mirage of 00. Great collapse of 05?

Totals 57-44-4

 

As of today the White Sox have an 8201-8016 record since 1901 for a Winning Pct. of .506 They have the fewest WS appearances of any of the original 16 teams but the Phillies have only won 1 WS to the White Sox 2. Draw your own conclusions about our "winning" history.

They ain't the Brewers or the Cubs. Since becoming a franchise, 70% of all the White Sox' seasons have been winning ones, so when you say they have a poor history as a team, you're a moron. They are a perennial good and competitive team. And you should all be proud that the Sox are always good and always enjoyable to follow.

wow.

winning a few more games than you lose is nice, but not exactly a successful history as a team.

unless success is defined as being slightly better than average, but never a champion. ( edited to add that I'm referring to being a champion when anyone under the age of 100 can remember it )

the Brewers have been to a World Series in my lifetime, so even they had a nice flash in the pan season. The Sox haven't done that since I've been alive.

Edited September 20, 200520 yr by The Critic