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The Whitesox stand at a 30-95 record as of Monday Morning.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120 for .250 winning percentage.

With 162 games 40 wins would give the White Sox a winning percentage below .250 so they need 11 rather than 10 more wins to surpass the Mets and avoid being the worst team in MLB history since 1900.

Here is the remaining White Sox Schedule:

  • at SF Giants (3)
  • vs Detroit Tigers (4)
  • vs Texas Rangers (3)
  • vs NY Mets (3)
  • at Baltimore Orioles (3)
  • at Boston Redsox (3)
  • vs Cleveland Indians (I refuse to call them anything else) (3)
  • vs Oakland A’s (3)
  • at California Angels (3)
  • at San Diego Padres (3)
  • vs California Angels (3)
  • at Detroit Tigers (3)

In theory they could manage to get to 11 wins without winning or even splitting a single series. All they have to do is win a single game in each of those series and viola 12 wins and they avoid ignominy.

Alas the Redsox, Orioles, Indians, Mets Padres and even the Giants are all in division or wild card races and will have a real incentive to try to sweep the easiest remaining games on their schedules. If only half of those teams manage a sweep that means to avoid replacing the 1962 mets at the bottom of the barrel the White sox would have to

  • split their 4 game set with Detroit
  • win at least one of their remaining series
  • and not be swept by any non-playoff team

Can they do it? I have absolutely no idea but it will be fun to find out, unless you’re a White Sox fan.

It does however give one a reason for following the team.

If things go as bad as I suspect they will I’m the White sox front office I arrange for the surviving members of the 62 Mets to attend any game where the White Sox can clinch the worst record of all time and arrange for a ceremony where a member of the 62 Mets (Ed Kranepool?) gives them the fickle finger of fate award a-la Laugh-In if they manage to do so.

If you’re going to go down you might as well celebrate it.

At last count, I’ve been sentenced to the Facebook gulag 28 times.  The only crime I have ever committed is that of posting articles and memes that reflect my Libertarian beliefs. My posts constantly contradict established progressive orthodoxy, which is the official religion of the political left. 

Those on the political left firmly believe that any form of communication that contradicts progressive beliefs is hate speech.  They mistakenly maintain that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.

It has been painfully obvious since Facebook first went live that that social media platform is extremely hostile to communications made by those of us on the political right.  That is because Mark Zuckerberg is a rabid leftist. 

Until recently Facebook would slap articles that contradict progressive orthodoxy with a phony fact check and hide them behind several clicks.  After offenders accumulate a couple of these bogus fact checks, they were sent to the gulag for 90 days.  During that time hardly anyone sees your posts because they are reduced to the lowest possible priority.

Just this past month Facebook began removing posts entirely.  When they do a scary looking message like this one, which I received today, flashes across your screen

As you can see from the title of the actual article they removed, it is in no way spam: Texas Mom Reads Anal Sex Passage From School Book — Mic Gets Cut (taphaps.com). Imagine a book distributed in school that is so pornographic the reading it at a schoolboard meeting gets your mic cut off and posts mentioning it removed from Facebook.

After the screen informing you that they removed your post Facebook warns you that you will be in trouble if you continue posting stuff that they do not like. It is a blatant form of intimidation.

The most pathetic and most dangerous aspect of this censorship nonsense is this screen equating sharing articles that contradict progressive orthodoxy with physical harm.

Very simple. Musk doesn’t pretend that he isn’t supporting Trump while the MSM pretends that they are not shills for Harris.

Oh and the 2nd difference? The Trump campaign is not afraid of a Kamala Harris interview, but Kamala and the Democrats are.

And consider this. How bad a candidate must Kamala be if the Democrats are afraid of an interview conducted by a press corps that is slobbering all over themselves in support of her

Kamala Harris proved that she is no strategic genius.  The right choice of running mate could have aided her campaign, making it easier for the Democrats to steal the upcoming presidential election. 

Josh Shapiro is the candidate she should have chosen.  This satirical  headline perfectly captures the reason why Shapiro was not selected by Kamala: Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote | Babylon Bee

The running mate Kamala Harris actually selected, Tim Walz, is just as much a radical leftist as she is.  This Town Hall article documents some of Governor Walz’s most extreme left wing positions.

Tim Walz absolutely loves transgenderism.

In April 2023, Walz signed a law that turned Minnesota into a “transgender sanctuary state.” House File 146 “prevents state courts or officials from complying with child removal requests, extraditions, arrests, or subpoenas related to gender-affirming health care that a person receives in Minnesota.” This gave state courts the power to take kids away if parents don’t sign off on so-called “gender-affirming” surgical procedures, allowing the state to have temporary emergency jurisdiction over the child.

Governor Walz is an avid Marxist.

Walz, who was the choice of democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), sees socialism as akin to “neighborliness.”

“Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values,” the Bernie-backed candidate said on an on-camera “White Dudes for Harris” fundraiser call last week. “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Tim Walz is a such a rabid supporter of Black Lives Matter that he let Minneapolis burn.

When radical Black Lives Matter militants rioted over George Floyd’s death, Walz waited days to call in the National Guard. Walz’s soft-on-crime response to the George Floyd riots allowed anti-police extremists to burn down a police station in Minneapolis and inflict $500 million in property damage. Walz himself even admitted the “abject failure” of his handling of the BLM uprising.

He made Minnesota a virtual gulag during the COVID pandemic.

Walz was a COVID-19 militant. As governor, he issued a memorandum mandating indoor masking and set up a hotline to report residents who violated COVID-19 mandates. Walz refused to take the hotline down when asked to do so.

As of April 1, 2020, the state received approximately 500 reports of “suspected violations” of Walz’s stay-at-home executive order. The number one report was of businesses that remained open when they “should [have been] closed.” Bars and restaurants that violated Walz’s guidelines ordering their closure faced criminal and civil penalties for continuing on-site sale operations. Businesses that didn’t cooperate were reported to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol Gambling Enforcement Division, and law enforcement was dispatched to investigate complaints.

Like all Democrats, Tim Walz loves illegal immigrants more than citizens.

In 2023, Walz signed the “North Star Promise,” a scholarship program that gives low-income applicants, including illegal aliens, a full tuition-free ride to public Minnesota colleges and universities, as he hiked taxes on residents despite the state’s $17.5 billion surplus. Illegal aliens can also enroll in MinnesotaCare, the state’s publicly subsidized insurance program. An estimated 40,000 illegal aliens residing unlawfully in Minnesota meet the program’s requirements.

Last year, Walz signed a bill into law allowing anyone in Minnesota, regardless of immigration status, to obtain a driver’s license, including illegal aliens. This meant proof of citizenship or lawful presence in the United States was no longer required to receive one in the state. At the time, approximately 81,000 illegals were living in Minnesota. 

When It comes to abortion, Tim Walz is just as extreme as Kamala.

At the beginning of 2023, Walz enshrined the “right” to abortion without limits into Minnesota statute through the “Protect Reproductive Options Act,” an abortion-up-to-birth bill designed to shield the state’s existing statutes from future Supreme Court decisions.

He is also a climate change alarmist.

In 2022, Walz announced Minnesota’s Climate Action Framework, a 69-page plan that calls for the state to transition to “100% carbon-free electricity” by 2040. To accelerate the transition, the state will “Provide financial incentives to BIPOC and low-income community organizers to educate about EVs.”

If elected, Tim Walz will aid Kamala Harris in her crusade against the Second Amendment, VP Pick Tim Walz Supports Biden-Harris’s Big 3 Gun Control Policies (breitbart.com)

Democrat Vice Presidential pick Tim Walz wants the three central gun controls that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have spent years pushing in Washington, DC.

Those controls–an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws–have been pushed time and again by Biden and/or Harris at every opportunity, including those in which the gun controls had absolutely nothing to do with the events that led to their mention.