A Baseball Update: Reality Is A Bummer

Granted, it has only been three weeks since the Major League Baseball season has begun, but my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, currently have a record of 6 wins and 13 losses The Sox have lost 8 of their last 10 games and have been swept by both the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays. Of course, Tampa Bay has a pretty good team. Baltimore not so much. Needless to say, the White Sox have the worst record in baseball so far this season. After three weeks, is it too soon to panic? Yes! But I am panicking. The White Sox television announcers, Steve Stone and John Schriffen, still seem optimistic - they feel it is just a matter of getting the bats to come around. But to me, this season looks pretty much just like last season, when the Sox lost 102 games, which was much better than 2024, when they lost 121 games and set a record for the worst team in the history of Major League baseball. I am beginning to think I should never have bet my retirement savings on the Sox to win it all. Live and learn, I guess.

In any case, yesterday the weather in Chicago was pretty nice, and the boys in the Sox dugout looked pretty laid back and happy, as seen in the photograph on the right that I took from the Sox broadcast on MLB.com. But in the end, the Sox lost to the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3. On the other hand, the White Sox's North Side Rival, the Chicago Cubs, have 9 wins and 9 losses, a .500 record, although they are still in last place in the National League Central (although a mere 1.5 games out of first). Early days for them. As for my adopted hometown team, the Colorado Rockies, they have a record of 7-12, tied for last place with the San Francisco Giants in the National League West. But surprisingly, they actually beat the Houston Astros yesterday by a score of 3-2. Over the last 10 games the Rockies are 4 and 6, which is not good but better than the Sox. My main takeaway is that all 3 of these teams are currently in last place in their respective divisions. Will things turn around for these ballclubs? The Cubs will certainly be contenders. As for the White Sox and Rockies, I hate to say wait until next year, and so I will just think it.