Here is a great story about a very popular team that happens to be, historically anyway, the worst team ever!
The Worst Baseball Team Ever -
The Philadelphia Phillies 10,000 Losses and Counting
by CJ Carter
They started off on May 1st 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers. The Quakers lost their first game 4-3 and went on an 8 game skid. This is how the Philadelphia Phillies began their march to become one of the worst franchises in professional sports. Not only that, but during their first year, the would be Philadelphia Phillies lost 81 of their inaugural 98 games. So it is no wonder that the Phillies became the greatest losers in sports when they became the first professional team to lose 10,000 games.
In typical Phillies fashion, yet another instance of the cruel irony which embodies the Phillies played out when the youngest player ever to reach 100 home runs struck out to end the game and give them they're 10,000 loss. But Ryan Howard isn't the first great player to play for a sorry team. Mr. Cub himself Ernie Banks was a 2 time MVP. The Cubs are also one of the worth franchises in history. Ted Williams always seemed to come up short in October when it came to squaring off in the World Series. Tony Gwynn, looked upon by many as the greatest hitter since Ted Williams, never could lay his hands on a ring. Great players and poor teams seem to always form an unholy union.
The point of all this is that it's not so extraordinary to be a loser. In fact it is much more common to be a loser than a winner. Winners are unique in the fact that they triumph over the masses. So that fact that many news papers made note of the fact of the Phillies 10,000 loses does not make them a horrible organization. Considering they have been in existence for more than 100 years is a testament to their good business sense and means more than their 10,000 loses ever will.
Original article can be viewed here.
