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And just like that, the White Sox’ American League record-tying 21-game losing streak is over and a manager who failed to discernibly move the team so much as an inch in the right direction has finally been fired. Two storylines that actually made the 2024 Sox interesting for a couple of strange, twisted weeks have gone “poof” in the night like home run shots off a rag-armed Sox reliever.
It’s back in the shadows for the Sox, whose pursuit of baseball’s modern-era record for losses in a season — 120 — could demand our attention all over again in the latter part of September.