It just keeps getting worse for the Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox have been in disarray for about two years now.

Ever since Tim Anderson hit that walk-off home run in the 2021 Field of Dreams game, it has been nothing but a slow, embarrassing decline with hitting rock bottom nowhere in sight.

There was the Houston Astros easily dispatching the Sox in the 2021 ALDS. Then came the 81-81 2022 season where manager Tony La Russa found new ways to look foolish. It did not help that the team only played when they felt like it.

The 2023 offseason saw the Chicago White Sox hire Pedro Grifol as manager who was passed over for promotion by the Kansas City Royals. Maybe they knew he would be in over his head and not work. The Sox signed pitcher Mike Clevinger despite him being investigated by the league for a possible domestic abuse policy violation.

Instead of moving on, they doubled down on signing him to a contract that no other team would give him. Only now is the team ready to get rid of Clevinger but only for financial reasons.

This season got off to the worst start imaginable and the team has been in a tailspin ever since.

For a brief moment, the trade deadline acquisitions gave a moment of hope that things would get better. Instead, there were reports that Kenny Williams traded away Jake Burger despite objections from other members of the front office.

Keynan Middleton shared how dysfunctional the clubhouse was after he was sent to the New York Yankees. Tim Anderson got knocked out in a fight with Jose Ramirez.

Once again, it looked like things would get better for the Chicago White Sox when owner Jerry Reinsdorf fired Williams as executive vice president and Rick Hahn as general manager.

Those good vibes lasted about 14 hours when USA Today’s (and known unofficial White Sox insider) Bob Nightengale reported the Sox would promote minor league director Chris Getz to GM and bring in Dayton Moore to help out Getz. Making matters worse, La Russa was reported to be helping Reinsdorf make these decisions.

It feels like rooting for this team means being in a nightmare that you can never wake up from.

Getz is unqualified and Moore won a World Series but needed to catch lightning in a bottle to do it. Maybe someone would talk Jerry out of this bad decision, but it looks like he is going to go ahead with this terrible plan.

A shooting took place in Guaranteed Rate Field’s outfield bleacher section that left two women injured during last Friday’s game. Thankfully neither was seriously injured.

How the shooting took place makes the Sox security appear outdated or lazy. There is a report out there that one of the injured women snuck the gun into the park in the folds of her belly fat and the gun eventually went off accidentally.

At this point, the Chicago White Sox should be out of the news cycle with how bad they have played this season. They keep staying in it by continuing to find new and creative ways to be dysfunctional, awful, embarrassing, or all three.

They are part clown show, part train wreck.

We could talk about how Michael Kopech and Dylan Cease have been brutal on the mound lately, but the Southside faithful is probably already miserable as it is.

The team leaving Chicago was even being bantered about. There was speculation that the team could move to Nashville if the franchise does not secure a new stadium by 2028 when the lease runs out on Guaranteed Rate.

However, now there is talk the Sox will stay in Chicago. They may stay on the Southside. They could move to the Westside. Going to a renovated Soldier Field or joining the Bears in Arlington Heights.

With the way things are going, the Chicago White Sox will find a way to mess that up. Getting things wrong is what the Chicago White Sox do best.