{"id":36206,"date":"2025-05-18T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/36206\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:56:21","slug":"white-sox-believe-they-have-pope-leo-xiv-on-our-side-will-get-stadium-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/36206\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox believe they have Pope Leo XIV ‘on our side’, will get stadium graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox are commemorating the new Pope\u2019s longtime fandom with a graphic near his seat at Rate Field from the 2005 World Series.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, grew up in Chicago as Robert Prevost. <\/p>\n

The 69-year-old pontiff was shown in television footage attending Game 1 of the World Series<\/a> 20 years ago at what then was known as U.S. Cellular Field.<\/p>\n

Chicago White Sox fans dressed like Pope Leo XIV in the bleachers during a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox at Wrigley Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV jerseys are seen at vendors\u2019 booths before the team\u2019s game against the Miami Marlins at Rate Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

The team plans to unveil the graphic on Monday when the Sox face the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n

The White Sox\u2019s record of 41-121 last season marked the most losses for any MLB team in the modern era (since 1900). <\/p>\n

Their winning percentage has been slightly higher in 2025 with a 14-31 record (.311) entering Saturday\u2019s game against the Cubs, including four wins in their past seven games since Pope Leo was elected by the conclave on May 8.<\/p>\n

White Sox GM Chris Getz believes their recent improvement is no coincidence.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s been exciting obviously, to have someone of that significance be a White Sox fan,\u201d Getz told USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale<\/a>. \u201cSince he\u2019s been announced to become the Pope, the White Sox have tacked on some wins. So perhaps a higher power is on our side.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV greeting a participant during an audience with members of the \u201dCentesimus Annus Pro Pontifice\u201d Foundation, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

Fans at home games have come dressed in Pope costumes and Pope-related T-shirts during the current home stand.<\/p>\n

The Cubs initially claimed Pope Leo as one of their fans on the Wrigley Field marquee, but his brother, John Prevost, has since confirmed that he roots for the White Sox, whose World Series win over the Astros in 2005 was their first championship since 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox are commemorating the new Pope\u2019s longtime fandom with a graphic near his seat at Rate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,6531,185,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-36206","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-white-sox","16":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114528713717112983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206","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=36206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}