Black Sox 2: The once-a-century descent into a losing franchise

Are you a fan of the Futility Watch we’ve been running all season?

OK, maybe “fan” isn’t the right way to put it. But starting on Friday night, you’ll notice a new line added to all the other ignominious stats tracked there: All-Time Franchise Record.

And this, this is the tale of why we’re adding All-Time Franchise Record.

Backstory

Updating Today in White Sox History on a daily basis involves a LOT of tooling around Baseball-Reference, and that tooling trips over one particular header, every day:

Seeing this header before chasing a game event in 1951 or player transaction from 1936, it “suddenly” dawned on me that the White Sox were getting really close to the .