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Sometime this week, the 2024 version of the White Sox will lose their 121st game, a figure no team has reached since the turn of the twentieth century. The 1962 Mets, the only team since 1899 to lose 120 games, will be surpassed not by an expansion team like they were, but a team that was popping champagne just three seasons prior. It’s a collapse with few parallels in baseball history, and none where owner intent -- the 1910s A’s, the 2000s Marlins -- wasn’t part of the equation.
