Which Athlete Broke Your Heart?

I was 10, so I just poured all that attention and care into the Indians.

 

And ESPN as a whole.

 

Ban Rose from working in baseball. The Hall of Fame is a museum. Put his transgressions on the plaque.
It doesn't matter what he bet on; it doesn't change the fact that he has 4,256 hits, was a 17x all-star, and won three World Series (one of which he was MVP).
It's no different than the French saying their was no Tour winner from 99-05.

 

Not one single athlete, but the 2003 Cubs. And it ain't even close.

After the Bartman fiasco, Prior threw a wild pitch, Gonzales booted a double-play ball from Miggy, and Wood had to go on three days rest in game 7, and we got beat.

I remember standing outside a bar looking in (back when I smoked) and watching it all fall apart. Things were so promising. We'd just gotten rid of Don Baylor. Dusty hadn't ruined Wood and Prior.

Only game to ever make me cry.

 

Tom Seaver when I was a kid.

 

Robert Heinlein was a Grandmaster SF writer. He sincerely pissed me off when he had a character in one of his novels refer to the World Series as "a commercially induced surrogate interest". I knew that this was accurate even at the time I first read it, but I wasn't willing to accept it as truth. The older I have gotten, (and the more the business of sports has changed since 1987 when "Time Enough for Love" came out) the more true this has become.

I really don't pay more than cursory attention to pro sports of any kind any more. I see the headlines, watch the video clip of the day perhaps, but the reality is that basically all I watch often any more is college sports. It's a little less true of them, at least below the P5 level.

 

I don’t really have one, but if I did it’s that fucking Tyus Edney.

 

Say it ain't so, Earl.

 

The LCSes in 2003 were uncanny. Two curses continuing.

I remember remarking to our Red Sox-fanboi paginator watching the ALCS a day after the Bartman debacle, "Five outs left, about the same as last night." Sure enough, the Sox spit the bit too.

The Sox were finally requited a year later and the Cubs had 2016.

 

Rick Monday.

 

Me too.

 

Me three.

And Jim Sundberg.