I Tortured Myself By Watching a 2023 White Sox Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- The 2023 White Sox were one of the most dissapointing teams of the year, but for those who have been rooting for this franchise, this is just par for the course. I decided to go deep into the trenches and watch a full game to bear witness to what made this team so pathetic.
Special shout-out to @TrueRGM for supplying me with the game footage for editing.
Clarifications:
• I know Lucas Giolito's ERA with the White Sox was actually quite solid (3.79) and only spiked once he was traded, but I felt his season should still be reflected in totality to show how poorly many of the White Sox players performed in 2023
• I dont add the Jr. to Luis Robert Jr's name. This was a mistake on my part as he only started using the Jr. in his name this season. I also probably mispronounced it anyway
• I know that not every White Sox announcer was technically fired, but each one of them has stated that organizational intervention led to them either quitting or retiring (In Ken Harrelson's case)
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Track List:
Wave Race 64 Soundtrack - Milky Lake
Space Tourism - 2k20 Sh*tShow
Shifty - Jazz Ass
Rob Crow - Not So Good
Lightly Fried - Cocoa Butter Kisses (Chance the Rapper Intrumental Remake)
Space Tourism - 2K19 Beat Tape
Zero XK - Este Mundo
Kanye West - Barry Bonds (Alternative Instrumental)
International Superstar Soccer 2000 soundtrack - Menu Music 3
Chocolate Factory - the Lonely Pool Party
Black Sabbath - Sweatl Leaf (Live)
AP Weaver - Limbo
hopeless - Natsuki
Axium Waves - Earth
Tree Cop - Noodles
Nedaj - Kashmir
Serengeti and Kenny Segal - Ajai Finale (Instrumental)
W66 Red Shifting
Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
4:15 Choosing The Game
5:17 Game Context
6:45 Jason Benetti
7:32 Tim Anderson
9:25 Luis Robert Jr.
10:50 Eloy Jimenez
11:37 Dylan Cease
12:52 White Sox Are Not Clutch
13:38 Jake Burger
15:22 The White Sox and Solo Homers
16:54 The 5th Inning X0
18:35 The Downfall
21:47 End Of The Game
22:53 The White Sox are Poison
25:14 Jerry Reinsdorf is Poison
26:18 Finale - กีฬา
Did you all know the 2024 White Sox are worse?
Hahahah
Oh we southsiders definitely know sadly... Did just have a nice sweep of Tampa though but a close loss tonight.
the only fun i have watching my sox now is seeing if we’ll set the record of the least wins in a season
💀💀💀
Yes
Jay Cuda is the best thing about the White Sox and Jerry can't take him away from us.
Wanna bet?
He teaches us so much.
A liddo too transphobic for my tastes
@@HeySalinawait what ☹️
@@HeySalinawhat did he say
That transition between Burger and Konerko fielding is art
As a veteran of this game and over 100 more 2023 white Sox games, thank you for bringing attention to my suffering. But it got so much worse
Let's just hope the White Sox have a great 2024 season
@@sportcardcollector9599we say the same thing every year and… it never goes as planned
@@smashmikey 👍👍
Facts I watched over 130 white Sox game’s and they let me down
@@sportcardcollector95991-4 start lolol
So not the main point of the video, but the bit about Jason Benetti and the way that Reinsdorf talked about him absolutely crushed me. As a Yankee fan who doesn't watch the non-YES baseball broadcasts often, I didn't realize I recognized his voice, let alone the fact that we have the same condition. I'm not sure what I want to do with my journalism degree when I leave undergrad but it's comforting to know someone else with my disability has succeeded on national television and is beloved to the point of being considered one of the best at what he does. He deserved better from the org, as does anyone who loves this team.
Jason is the best. Him and Luis Roberts HRs were the only thing that made this team watchable. And that says a LOT. I hope he gets more primetime or national TV gigs.
@ozziehall779 You’re absolutely right. I’m a Red Sox fan and I like Dave O’Brien but it is a treat to hear Jason Benetti’s voice.
Also, not the point of your comment but you are also a testament to personal drive in the face of adversity and I hope you have nothing but success in your endeavors.
I’m a tiger fan all I can say is I’m sorry white Sox fans about Jason
Cubs fan here and what I have to say is that’s fucking criminal! That’s like saying Tom Ricketts is so bad that Pat Hughes, the modern day voice of the Cubs, hated him so much that Pat left for the Cardinals, and Tom Ricketts then saying Pat sucked at his job, despite being not only beloved by the fans but also a HALL OF FAMER!
@@CASEMSTRJason does a lot of NCAA football/basketball for fox in the offseason. Truly a Jack of all trades and an inspiring sports nerd (I mean that very positively.)
The Trout-Pujols comparison made me laugh and also die inside
“As there’s a drive to deep left field that will make it a 4 nothing ballgame” had me rolling 😂
Jason was the greatest part of the last decade. He is literally impossible to not love. And I am hopeful he will get to watch semi competent baseball in Detroit, and get more National TV gigs.
Considering the Twins are currently considered to be the default winners of the 2024 AL Central title as of right now, I hope the Tigers show up and make the Twins work for it. It's been too long since there's been multiple ACTUALLY GOOD TEAMS in the AL Central.
@@katherineberger6329gaurdians slump last year shouldn’t have happened and I’m glad to say in 2024 every team in the division is solid besides the Sox. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to accept as a Sox fan. The only fanbase I truly wish misfortune upon is the Cubs. And that’s not even because the rivalry. It’s because the White Sox are so bad that Cubs fans are forgetting how hard it used to be to be a Cubs fan. Creating an arrogant fanbase that poorly represents why this city cares about baseball.
If this was your st anger… good luck white socks fans, lulu is coming…
According to the band making LuLu helped them not quit music and break up.
@@scattau41I’m still convinced they made LuLu out of spite to everyone who hates St. Anger
This was great.
Thoughts from a Twins fan:
A) combining metal and baseball talk is my favorite activity so thank you for this
2) Jay Cuda is a gift.
C) their defense has been so embarrassingly sloppy that I actually feel bad for them and I think that’s a crime in some Minnesota state statute.
D) didn’t realize Uncle Al was a White Sox fan. Today I learned.
Thanks for taking one for the team and cheers!
Just want to say -- avid TH-cam Baseball Channel watcher and the quality of your videos are up there with some of the best. Looking forward to watching you blow up. Well done!
I’m looking forward to it too. Thank you so much for watching.
As a White sox fan i approve this video
I approve of this comment
Die hard Sox fan here. Just want to clarify a few things about this video.
1) RIP Jason to Detroit.
2) I'm sorry that you chose a game with Gordon Beckham in the booth.
3) Tim Andersons slump was due to a rag blog exposing that he was having a child with another baby mama. This for some reason was suppressed from pretty much all news outlets considering it was true.
4) Our 3rd base coaches are pretty bad. McEwing always sent so many slow runners home and our new one isn't any better.
5) Thanks for putting Berto in. Possibly the best rant in Chicago sport radio.
6) Hahn & Williams both deserved to be fired 10+ years ago. Ironically Williams going over Hahns head to trade Burger was the straw that broke the camel's back.
7) To answer your question, yes Jerry is the devil. He also needs to sell the team.
As a Cubs fan Benetti and Stone are two of the best in baseball if not THE best. Benetti does every sport amazingly well but you can tell baseball is where he shines brighter. Him leaving I think does more damage to the Sox than putting a bad product on the field. Would not be surprised if Stone walks after this too.
straight up man. watching the bad product is one thing, but it’s another if i have to listen to gordon beckham talk over top of it for 3+ hours.
Steve Stone is another Jerry yes man.
I'm new to baseball and decided to become a White Sox fan. I can't wait to learn more about my new favorite team🥰
If you're new to baseball and have no regional loyalty, I'd recommend being a fan of the Arizona Diamondbacks; they actually have a future
good choice! lifetime sox fan and fully welcome you! Best team in the world, even if they are not acting like it recently :/
oh good lord, i would not recommend that
@@ChipCityShow don't worry this was a joke I'm actually a Braves fan 🤫
Go Braves!@@WhatHappenedtoBaseball
To be fair, Clevinger was our best Starting Pitcher in 2023 🤷
The day Jerry is gone there will be a huge parade in Chicago. He better hope his tombstone isn’t in Chicago either
It will be a holiday in the city of Chicago
Watching a 2023 whitesox game *GONE WRONG* *GONE SEXUAL*
GONE ASEXUAL
KNOCKED OUT
Somehow you ended up in my suggested and this is the first video ive caught of yours and i like the style. Keep up the good work 🎉
The editing on the fly ball dropping in front of everyone is so good I am dying 😂🙏🏼
…somehow, the 2024 White Sox are even worse
The sequel is ussally worse than the original
You thought 2023 was bad ? 2024 is on pace to be the worst team in the history of baseball
watching benetti leave, the man who entirely caused me to start doing play-by-play, has been the most heart wrenching, and destructive moment in my sports fan life.
this team is rotten to its core. it makes me so, so upset. One day it will get better. One day I hope.
Wow this video and channel is incredible. You have the storytelling scriptwriting of Jon Bois and EmpLemon with the well-researched analysis of Foolish Baseball. I know it's cliche to tell smaller channels "why don't you have more subs!!" but as someone who watches baseball a LOT and seeks out content for it, I can't believe I'm only just now finding you.
As a baseball and Metallica fan, this was excellent but hurt
If it makes you feel better, I had to check myself into a psychiatric facility not once but twice during the making of this video.
Counterpoint: Tim Anderson is a punk.
He's so cocky and arrogant. If you're going to be unlikable, you have to be the best in the game. Tim Anderson isn't a bad player, but he'll never be a hall of famer, and imo isn't even a perennial all star caliber player. If Jose Ramirez was cocky and a jerk like Anderson, I'd be willing to say at least he's an excellent player.
I didn't really understand what was up with him and the "Jackie Robinson" thing either. Did Tim Anderson really say he's like Jackie Robinson? For one, Jackie was a hall of fame quality player even without the color barrier breaking. I just looked his WAR up and it's 16.2 career with -2 this year. Jackie Robinson's career WAR is 60 something without the color barrier factor. They are not alike. They couldn't be more different.
@@SconnerStudioswhere are you getting cockiness from? You have to be great to even have a chance to be in the league in the first place. You all talk about the man like you personally know him
22:32 this is one of the truest and saddest things about being a Sox player/fan. It hurts me so bad. The phrase “it’s just a game” will never be a satisfactory response for this feeling. Not just for baseball but for life. Because we’ve all been in this position. And we all will be sometime in the future.
Thank you for the video, honestly as a Sox fan I feel like people (especially you Jerry) deserve jail time for what they done to the fans and the ball club
Let’s all make a citizens arrest.
that’s gotta be the best ending to TH-cam video I’ve ever seen. the commitment is unmatched
I just started it but now I’m so excited.
you give me early jon bois vibes with a little bit of fire and i like it
Great storytelling and editing! Off to the top you go lad 🎉
For the record the broadcast not playing the audio from the studio isn’t a one off error. For whatever reason MLBTV just doesn’t play the studio audio for us
Just found your channel I love it I am going to subscribe, I love baseball and long videos keep up the good work my man
Thank you so much!
@@nomorefielders no thank you for your hard work ! Ps if you want to do jays videos i wont be mad lol
Track choices on point, and varied
Solid video. Was not expecting to see Al Jourgensen mentioned in a baseball vid tho lol
Fantastic video, this has summarized my misery as a Sox fan perfectly. Earned a subscriber right away.
Thank you for this video sir. Growing up in Oklahoma I have followed the team from afar. It’s been maddening with the lack of innovation from the front office coupled with the love of crying poverty in the 3rd largest media market in the country. The fact that Rick and Kenny are gone is hopefully a step in the right direction.🤞🤞 While Chris Getz is probably the last choice for a new GM he’s at least acknowledged that this team needs to attempt to understand the concept of defense. Hopefully this rebuild goes better than the last.🙏🙏🤞🤞 Until things improve I will do the only thing I can and not spend money on them. Hopefully Getz proves me wrong.🙏🙏
Getz is already remaking the team in his image-former Royals and .150 hitters who may not have talent, but dangit, they're scrappy and they know how to play The Game.
thank you for acknowledging our pain lmao
As a non-baseball watcher, and lover of NBA ball, I heard Jerry Reinsdorf, and ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING makes sense 😂
I hit my breaking point with them after this year after all the damage they did to my mental and emotional well being and I’m like yeah I’m done I can’t take any of this anymore I need the whole offseason to decompress and hopefully the Cubs will cure my CTE that Jerry gave me and I can actually enjoy the season from the first pitch of game 1 to the last out of game 162. BTW before you go out and call me a bandwagon one side of my family are all Cubs fans and the other side are all White Sox fans so it was never easy growing up for me this way. I’m sticking with the Cubs long term regardless of how good or bad it gets for the long term as I can’t take any more of the cancer team that is the White Sox
Try watching a 2024 whitesox game
And they are even worse in 2024.
I keep coming back to this one, it just seems so much more personal than most baseball videos on this platform.
2024 white sox really said "hold my beer."
The St. Anger references throughout are unreal lol
This was a entertaining video !!! You got me as a subscriber
I really wanted to be mad about your edit at 10:33 because I still remember how heartbreaking and deflating that injury was for us when we were finally feeling on top of the world, but I was too busy laughing my ass off. F you, great video
Watching this now is even more infuriating.
Great video, lots of personality/love in this instead of just stats.
Amazing video keep it up! ❤
The little Thom Brenneman reference was perfect 😂 🤌🏼
I’m a white Sox fan, watched almost every game this year for reasons unknown (I’m probably a masochist) and you just made me re watch one. Thank you this is the high I was looking for
Being a sad sox fan brought me to this video and finding this channel and man was this savagely hilarious. Instant sub
I was at the game you selected! Will never forget the CT3 grand slam!
If the fans stopped paying Reinsdorf to put this despicable product out on the field I bet he would change, you gotta speak his language though. All I have heard this whole video is impassioned insightful analysis and that might make you feel better but it wont change anything…
That's where I've been torn. Want to go watch and support my team, don't want to give Jerry any of my money tho and they're even worse in 2024... so I haven't seen a single game.
Can't wait for this year's episode 😂
I was at tha Angels game with tha double steal on Bummer to end it and I’ve never been tha same since. Chicago sports is generational pain.
I didnt remember this game until the walk off from freeman. I vividly remember watching luis look up, and just start strolling to the dugout. The same feeling every fan had.
Same
bro the wasted sound effect over eloy got me crying
The front office staff comparison that showed the 50 ticket sale workers is insane.
This was a truly long and sad season for my White Sox we have such a great lineup they just can't stay healthy I'm an Eloy Jimenez super collecter i have over a 1000 cards of his they need to man up in 2024 and play ball this Sox fan will always be there i used to have season tickets in 2003 and 04 i wish I had them in 2005 but I still watched every game man that was the greatest year of my life i just wish these guys would play as a team that's all I have to say let's go white Sox you can put it on the board yes
Life long Chicagoan here, even tho I'm a Cubs fan I feel bad for all the white sox fans who deserve better. Also, I get to feel their pain whenever basketball season rolls around because the Reinsdorfs are just as bad at running their NBA team as they are at running their MLB team
wonderful video. well done!
"Chris Sale: Not a fan of throwback jerseys" is when I knew I was in for a banger
Great video man. As a mariners fan I would love something on the team
The subtle st anger references throughout the video were golden
wait until he watches a 2024 game
I genuinely don’t know how much more incompetency I can take. I just want to root for a good team for once in my life. I was only 4 when the sox won it all in 05. It’s becoming harder and harder to be a fan and justifying giving this team any of my time or money going to games. There’s no reason a franchise that’s just as old as the crosstown cubs, in a big market city, with loyal fans, should be so bad. Everything’s gotta go, starting with Jerry.
Really having a hard time getting good teammates and winning at level 9. I only solo queue and am on a 4 loss streak. Should I start looking for people to queue with?
I needed this man, FINALLY someone gets it!
Jake burger fuckin rules.
The hidden St. Anger references had me rolling
I heard the word "June" and "Dodgers" and I knew what game it was.
Excellent video
Thank you. And my gratitude towards your service as a white Sox fan
Owners like Reinsdorf always make me wonder how any sports fan can say they like capitalism. The man has spent decades being THE WORST but he doesn't lose money.
Because there are a lot worse owners than Reinsdorf. Look at who owns the A's
@@adamd5849there plenty of bad owners besides him. He’s a bad owner, but he’s not even close to the worst owner in history.
George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins from 1932 to 1969, definitely takes the cake.
There have been cheap and/or racist owners (Donald Sterling, Marge Schott, and Dan Snyder come to mind), but none of them were threatened with eviction from their own stadium for refusing to integrate.
Can't wait for the sequel
You should do a part 2 with the 2024 white Sox it would be much harder/painful😂
I don't watch baseball but as a Bulls fan, I understand the struggle. Nice video!
The Bulls and Sox are ran the exact same way. Jerry needs to go
If you want to get into baseball watch the Cubs
Thank you for a reminder to some fans that it can always be worse.
@NoMoreFielders So the reason Jason Benetti sounds like he is "talking to himself" during the broadcast at the 17 minute mark of the video, is because when you watch the games on the MLB app, MLB for some reason silences the NBC Sports Chicago studio when Benetti talks to them. This happens every game if you watch the Sox on MLB TV. Now if you watch the games on NBC Sports Chicago on local tv, you can hear the NBC Sports crew talking to him and most times they show a split screen of the game and them in studio when they are talking. I have no idea why MLB TV does this but as someone who watches every Sox game, this occurs every game.
Oh don’t worry. _2024 is already looking so much worse for them._ *15-45 through June 2nd.*
I can get behind a number of guys on the White Sox, one I absolutely cannot get behind is the one they decided not to pay 14 million dollars a year after he produced one of the worst offensive years of anyone under an actual contract and who was in a majority games in a given season. He is the real “clubhouse cancer” as you put it.
Therapist: What brings you here today?
Me: Sox.
Therapist: Can you repeat that?
Me: White Sox.
As a Guardians fan, DOWN GOES ANDERSON was absolutely the highlight of our entire season.
It was also the White Sox highlight of the season too but for entirely different reasons
actually the highlight of the season for sox fans was it being over@@nomorefielders
As a white soxs fan that was the highlight of our season
I’m a Braves fan, but I’ve watched the White Sox closely since 2017 because back then our rebuilds were often paralleled with each other. EVERYONE was thinking that both orgs would be long time contenders once their farm systems matured. I swear since then, it’s like the baseball gods decided that ATL was going to get every drop of luck while the White Sox would get zero. It’s absolutely wild how many Braves prospects have been massive hits, while White Sox prospects have busted nearly universally (at least relative to their hype).
As a friend of keynans I appreciate your feature on him
the first game of this Dodger series was my favorite of the year, then I was completely apathetic for the rest of the year
Dude. This is a masterpiece. I’m a tigers fan, and even I know the white Sox are bad to the core. But this was an amazingly written video. Will definitely watch some more :)
you may as well just be describing chicago as a whole. amazing video
I started watching MLB this season and I chose the white sox because an Australian played for them.
Should've picked the Braves. They had Peter Moylan and he still does commentary for them sometimes.
This video needs a few hundred thousand more views, this was wonderful
Thank you
:58 lifelong metallica fan, really loves st anger then and now. Wish they'd remix it for general population to appreciate it more
It wasnt just that they lacked talent. Its that the management is imcompetent, the ownership hates their own fans, there werent many if any likeable players on the team, they consistently lacked energy, ugly and boring stadium, and much more. Also they've never had any real leadership for the clubhouse. Anderson was a bit of that in 2022, but that's all I can think of recently. And with recent luminaries like Robin Ventura and Tony LaRussa its not surprising I guess.
jason benetti was great, and they lost him too now lol.
Seeing that last part made me genuinely think “what has it got to be like as a White Sox fan and dealing with that ownership” then I remembered that I’m a Panthers fan and have football Jerry to deal with
Jerry also had barely waited for the ink to dry on his paperwork buying the team before he was demanding a new stadium or he'd move the team to Tampa. He rejected the ballpark design that would eventually become Camden Yards in favor of the generic stadium that got built. He's since floated the idea of moving the team to Nashville recently if the public won't build him another stadium (while hundreds of millions are still owed on their current one). Hell, up until a few years ago, the Sox actively tried to keep crowds under 10,000 fans, as they wouldn't have to pay stadium rent for the day if they couldn't hit that mark (this was repealed in the 2010's).
Jordan falling to the Bulls was the best and worst thing to ever happen to Chicago sports, as it tricked people for decades into thinking Jerry is a good owner.
I can't think of the White Sox without thinking about the fan rant on the local Chicago radio.
My Tigers already won the offseason by nabbing Benetti!
The ending is *chef's kiss*
The pre and post game shows are awesome too. Chuck Garfeine and Ozzie Guillen are incredible. Watch the Dr. Ozzie bit they did 😂
Coming from a die hard Sox fan, This is an excellent analysis, kudos!
heads up thats not a production error mlb footage doesn't keep any calls to the studio for nbc sports broadcasts, and jason was talking about something else I'm pretty sure
that being said it wouldn't surprise me either lol
Yeah I figured that could be the case but then Jason made the “kill mix/minus comment” which made me think it was an actual production error.