Observe: This story was first printed in The Sports activities Column
Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost, the newly put in pontiff, is a lifelong Sox fan.
Final season, the Chicago White Sox broke the report for dropping essentially the most video games with a 41-121 report, surpassing the 1962 Mets. This season doesn’t look any higher, with the Sox having a report of 14-33 (.298) as of Could 18, sitting 17 video games out of first place.
However now the staff is in line for divine intervention. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is a die-hard White Sox fan.
Pope Leo’s brother set the report straight, saying he has all the time been a White Sox fan. There’s video proof of the Pope attending Sport One of many 2005 World Sequence at U.S. Mobile Discipline. “He was by no means, ever a Cubs fan,” John Prevost declared. So I don’t know the place that got here from. Our mom was a Cubs fan, our dad was a Cardinals fan, and all of our aunts on my mom’s facet (all from town’s north facet) have been Cubs followers.”
As dangerous because the White Sox are, they’re praying that possibly issues will flip round for them and they’re going to begin profitable. Final season, White Sox followers wore brown paper luggage over their heads to suggest how dangerous the season was, they usually took to social media to vent their frustration.
The followers are taking it to a brand new stage this season, dressing because the pope at dwelling video games and sporting attire with pope graphics. The Sox will even unveil a graphic close to his 2005 World Sequence seat commemorating the pope’s Chicago heritage and maintain a mass in his honor.
White Sox GM Chris Getz informed USA Immediately’s Bob Nightengale, “It has been thrilling to have somebody of that significance be a White Sox fan. Since he’s been introduced to change into the Pope, the White Sox have tacked on some wins. So maybe a better energy is on our facet.’’
The Sox congratulated Prevost upon his election to the papacy and despatched a pinstripe White Sox jersey together with his title on it and a hat to Rome. The staff additionally mentioned, “The Pontiff is all the time welcome at his ballpark.”
