{"id":16461,"date":"2025-05-10T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/16461\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T17:25:09","slug":"erick-fedde-has-perfect-response-to-pope-leo-xivs-white-sox-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/16461\/","title":{"rendered":"Erick Fedde has perfect response to Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s White Sox fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Fedde knows the pain the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/09\/sports\/pope-leo-xiv-attended-2005-world-series-as-seen-in-game-footage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sox\u2019s now most famous fan<\/a> must have gone through \u2014 maybe needing to ask for divine intervention. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals pitcher, who played for the historically awful 41-121 White Sox last season, was asked about the fandom of Robert Francis Prevost, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/world-news\/who-is-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the newly minted Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, after pitching a complete game shutout against his former team, the Nationals, on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he officially a White Sox fan?\u201d Fedde asked when Leo was brought up by reporters after Friday\u2019s 10-0 win. \u201cWell, maybe he had to pray a few times watching us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals pitcher Erick Fedde (12) pitches against the Washington Nationals during the first inning at Nationals Park. Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter\u2019s Basilica for the first time on May 8, 2025. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The world learned of Leo\u2019s loyalties to Chicago\u2019s South Side team shortly after he was named the leader of the Catholic Church earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, John Prevost, shot down reports that the new Pontiff was a Cubs fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video also surfaced Friday of Leo dressed in White Sox gear in the stands for Game 1 of the 2005 World Series against the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV World Series broadcast in 2005, wearing Chicago White Sox gear.   Major League Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Chicago won that World Series in four games, but rooting for the White Sox hasn\u2019t always been easy \u2013 especially recently.<\/p>\n<p>The team set the modern record for most losses in an MLB season last year with 121.<\/p>\n<p>The club is off to an 11-28 start in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Prevost told WGN-TV he wasn\u2019t sure how his brother \u2014 the first American-born pope \u2014 came to love the Sox.<\/p>\n<p>A sign of Pope Leo is displayed on the day of a match between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins, at the Rate Field baseball stadium, in Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Fedde during his time with the White Sox last year. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was never ever a Cubs fan, so I don\u2019t know where that came from,\u201d Prevost said. \u201cHe was always a Sox fan. Our mother was a Cubs fan. I don\u2019t know, maybe that clued in there and our dad was a Cardinals fan, so I don\u2019t know where all that came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fedde is off to a solid start to the season at 3-3 with a 3.86 ERA and 1.31 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>He was a bright spot for the White Sox last season, posting a 7-4 record and a 3.11 ERA before being traded to St. Louis in July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erick Fedde knows the pain the White Sox\u2019s now most famous fan must have gone through \u2014 maybe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,6531,185,4298,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-16461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-entertainment","16":"tag-white-sox","17":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114484708870103120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}