Top 5 "Letdowns"

• Mr. 300

  

  1) 2009; finding out my wife has an extremely rare form of cancer.....leoimyosarcoma
  2) 199; Jose Mesa losing the world series cause he wouldn't throw the pitch Sandy wanted him to
  3) 2011; JT and the entire OSU football program.
  4) 2008; LSU whoopin' OSU in the Nat'l cham game
  5) 1984; me, for partying myself out of college.
• enigmaax

  Based on how I felt at the time (for the most part, I took things a little harder as a kid)
  
  Honorable Mention - End of the 97 NCAA basketball season (UK lost the title game and Pitino); Any number of UK's Tubby Smith-era choke tournament choke jobs (UAB, Marquette, etc.) but especially the 05 Michigan State loss; Spurrier's resignation; the 87 Final Four when both of the fun teams lost in the semis (Pitino/Providence and UNLV, who had only 1 controversial loss coming in); 95/96 Fiesta Bowl (didn't expect Florida to win, but didn't expect them to not show up); Robin Ventura getting his ass kicked by a 93 year old; 94 MLB strike (was having the most fun following baseball in a long time)
  
  5) 1991 NCAA Basketball Final Four - Ain't afraid to say I bandwagoned on UNLV for about 5 years; really thought they were going to go down as the greatest team ever and its still my favorite single team to watch ever; began to hate Duke after this game and that deal was sealed the very next year (see #1)
  4) 1982 ALCS - Angels blew a 2-0 series lead (it was best of 5 at that time) and then blew a lead in the 7th inning of Game 5; hated Cecil Cooper then, hate Cecil Cooper now; this one brush with complete failure really set up the next one (see #3)
  3) 1986 ALCS - Angels failed to clinch in 5 games (up 3 games to 1) by giving up five 9th-inning runs, including a Dave Henderson HR on a 2-out, 2-strike pitch; was watching with my uncle and for some reason the Red Sox logo flashed a few times on the screen right before Henderson hit his bomb - my uncle said it was a sign Boston was going to win the series; Donnie Moore, the reliever who gave up the blast ended up killing himself a few years later; Angels got destroyed the next two games and that compounded the pain from their previous trip to the ALCS (see #4); met Don Sutton in an airport last year, I said "Boy, it's too bad you couldn't lead the Angels to a pennant in '86" to which he responded, "That still bothering you? You should really try to move on."
  2) 1982 NFC Championship Game - Dwight Clark, "The Catch"; not only did I love the Cowboys, but I lost a dime on a bet with my uncle and hated Joe Montana for not snapping the ball in the last however many seconds
  1) F.U.C.K. YOU, CHRISTIAN LAETTNER
• Fab1b

  

  Sports only really in no order they all sucked:
  98 MSU/OSU
  Mesa
  06 BCS loss to Florida, living here as a Buckeye sucked between that and the bball title game
  Blowing the 3-1 lead to the Red Sox in the ALCS a few years back no doubt would have drilled the Rockies
  Browns as a whole
  
  HM: Loss to LSU in BCS Title game, the drive, the fumble, Lebron, this whole OSU situation
• JerseyBuck

  

  Sports only in my lifetime, in no order.
  
  Mesa. Was at the game and bawled my eyes out.
  LeBron's "Decision". Gut punch. Cavs were so close. Once I heard it was going to be televised I thought after bringing suitors to Cleveland, he wouldn't be that classless to "break up" with Cleveland on national tv. Boy was I wrong.
  To echo Fab, the Browns as a whole. From 1995 to the wild card loss to Pittsburgh in 2002 and everything in between and after.
  2006 losing both national championships to Florida
  Tatgate and everything that came with it.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Cleveland fucking Browns
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Sports:
  5. 2007 Cleveland Indians. So, so close to the World Series
  4. 1997 Cleveland Indians. I still hate the Marlins.
  3. 2010 OSU Bucks: The whole Pryor and gang really let to the crap we have to deal with now.
  2. The Browns leaving. I'm not much of a Browns fan, but I still remember feeling like part of my childhood died that day. (Oh, and I still flip the bird at the Ravens field whenever I am in Baltimore)
  1. 2007 OSU-Florida game. That was my senior year at OSU and one of the truly great teams. That season was amazing and to have it end like that was just disgusting.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  In no particular order
  
  Michigan St - Ohio St 1998 (actually that is in order, I felt like someone punched me in the gut after that game)
  Ohio St - Florida championship game
  Griffey
  The Wire season 5 (still a great show, but Simon's ego got the best of him with the stupid newspaper angle and the serial killer plot)
  1985 baseball strike, we went to Kings Island the day before and had tix for one of the 2 games they were on strike
• Commander of Awesome

  

  JerseyBuck;850100 wrote: Mesa. Was at the game and bawled my eyes out.

  
  You weren't the only one.
  
  This thread is officially pissing me off.
• Fab1b

  

  I have said to this day, if I ever see Jose Mesa in person I will fight him! Also to make matters worse, like the Florida/OSU football and bball games I was in Fl in the Navy for the 97 series with a bunch of bandwagon Marlin fans up here in Jacksonville on my ship. What a horrible night that was.
• bradmaynard

  

  1) The "Bush Push" - Green jerseys, Zibby taking the punt return to the house, crazy atmosphere... then me falling on my knees and cursing God.
  
  2) The Chicago Cubs - No explanation needed
  
  3) Rex Grossman - I saw a Grossman Bear's home jersey at Dick's Sporting Goods that was marked down to 13.50$ a few months ago. I thought about buying it as a joke but then thought about the Super Bowl and realized I would forever hate myself.
  
  4) Jimmy Clausen showing up to South Bend in a hummer limo
  
  5) Last year when the Bears PA announcer in the NFC title game said "Todddd Colllllllins!"
• cat_lover

  1.Reds trading Tony Perez
  2. Reds firing Sparky
  3.Jose Mesa blowing the World Series
  4. Billy Buckner blowing the World Series
  5. The Drive
• raiderbuck

  1. Lebron, just lost a lot of respect for him (as a person)
  
  2. OSU/FL, I was at that game. Just couldn't believe it
  
  3. Browns missing the playoffs, playing against The Bengals ('07 maybe?), DA threw like 4 picks that game? Costing us a playoff birth
  
  4. 1999 OHSAA Division I Boys basketball Semi-Final. Mansfield Senior High v. Cincy Moeller. Moeller took it. I was a freshman at Senior. That was the hardest week, Senior High's star player Marquis Sykes' mother suffered a tragic heart attack earlier that month. It was like the whole city took a shot to the chest. Those boys played with a heavy heart. Most of those kids had been playing together since grade school and were like brothers to each other. Five seniors on that team, with a young Rick Minard on the bench.
  
  5. These players getting busted for steroids or HGH, or performance enhancing drugs, who get caught and get away with it. If you cheat, man up and admit it. I'm talking to you Roger Clemons and Barry Bonds.