MLB Showdown Obsession

The World Series is always hoped to be a relatively even matchup. It makes for a more exciting matchup that goes to the decisive and stressful Game 7 where let the best men win. It doesn't always happen. Sometimes you have one team that is such a juggernaut going in that all the experts agree is a total mismatch. Think in 1998 of the Yankees over the Padres, or the '76 Big Red Machine over the Yankees. But baseball is funny, the best (or even elite) teams don't always walk away champion. 1960 Pirates fans still won't let go of the Pirates over Yankees upset. Heck, the 1903 World Series was supposed to easily be taken by the Pirates, but the Americans had other plans. What's even more rare than an upset victory of an underdog against a heavily favored juggernaut? What about when a heavy underdog not only wins the World Series, but sweeps? The 1990 Cincinnati Reds were starting fresh at manager with Lou Piniella after a weak showing the previous season. Piniella was b...

 Last season, the White Sox embarrassed themselves in historic fashion when they broke the single season record for losses with 121 defeats. The former record holder was the expansion New York Mets of 1962 . Other such terrible teams in baseball history have some sort of excuse for why their team of grown men paid to play baseball were so bad, but the White Sox have no such convenient excuse. They were neither a brand new team nor had they sold off all their best players in preparation of scrapping their franchise (think Cleveland Spiders lore). They just sucked. Now that the Sox had taken possession of such an infamous distinction, you'd think this would be the singular low point in franchise history. What could possible be worse than losing the most games? Well, this is the White Sox, and there are a few contenders for the title of the lowest point. An easy choice would be the 1919 Black Sox team that threw the World Series for gambling purposes, as are the "Disco Demolition...