worst moment in favorite team history?

Question

me-fox buying the dodgers trading away Mike Piazza. Rupert murdouch is a dumbass. also Don Drysdale dying suddently in monteral.

Answer 1

I'm a Cards fan and obviously the death yesterday of Josh Hancock was crushing.........Any, I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard about Darryl Kile. I bawled. It was so sad.

The Boston/Cards World Series, well you know how that ended.

Mike Matheny left us.
These are just things I could think of offhand from recent memory.

Answer 2

I can think of three, in no particular order:

1. Stanley's wild pitch that let the tying run score. The grounder under Buckner a moment later, though a more compelling sight, merely sealed the deal.

2. Little not taking out Pedro. Could not believe it, the only man on Earth incapable of seeing that Martinez was out of gas was also the only man in position to do something about it. Bad, bad decision at the worst possible moment.

3. Clemens signing with the Blue Jays.

Answer 3

Aaron F. Boone's extra innings walk off home run off Tim Wakefield in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Salt was rubbed into the wound as the ball went over the wall and my cell phone started ringing with abusive Yankee fans calling to laugh.

For what it's worth, your Dodgers will win the NL West this year.

Answer 4

Many would say Bobby Thomson's 9th inning home run in the 3rd playoff game in 1951, but for me the worst moment is personal. I was 11 years old, the Dodgers were everything in the world to me, and in the 3rd playoff game in 1962 against the Giants, Stan Williams WALKED in the winning run in the 9th inning, and the Giants ultimately won the pennant. I have hated Stan Williams ever since then; he was traded to the Yankees for Bill Skowron that Winter, one year too late to save my psyche...

Answer 5

One of my all time favorites and Chicago native- Kirby Puckett:
Puckett became the subject of controversy in the years before his death. He was arrested and charged with groping a woman in a bar restroom in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, on September 5, 2002. He was tried and acquitted.

In the March 17, 2003, edition of Sports Illustrated, columnist Frank Deford wrote an article entitled "The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett", that documented Puckett's alleged indiscretions and attempted to contrast his private image with the much-revered public image he maintained prior to his arrest. A companion of many years to Puckett commented once that when Puckett couldn't play baseball anymore, "he started to become full of himself and very abusive." His weight ballooned to over 300 lbs and he was alleged to have begun to perform lewd acts in public, such as urinating in the parking lot of a shopping center, in plain view of other people.

Answer 6

You can go before that moment, when they got rid of Pedro Martinez. Paul Konerko turned into a pretty lame player too, didn't he (dripping with sarcasm).
...home run hit by Ozzie Smith in 1985
...home run hit by Jack Clark, same series

Don Drysdale was the best. I loved the way he spoke about pitching it "high & tight" to the hitter - no one messed with him!

Answer 7

Let's just say I'm a cubs fan. I'll start with the Lou Boudreau trade, the Maddux fiasco, and the entire end to the '69 season. I won't even mention the 2003 series (I will say Bartman is not to blame, but he does deserve at least of portion of it.)

Answer 8

Definately Aaron F'n. Boone. I was too little to remember Bucky Dent, only about 15 when Buckner choked. But as a grown 31 year old in 2003, that one really hurt. It almost killed me. I've never felt more anger and sorrow at any event in my life.

Thank God for 2004...

Answer 9

The death of Ewing Kaufmann. That Royals organization was already on the downhill slide, but that put it into free fall to the bottom of Major League Baseball and they still haven't recovered. That one moment will cost Royals fans 30 years of misery.

Answer 10

For me (Oakland A's fan) it was Jeremy Giambi not sliding on the famous Derek Jeter toss to Posada (if he slides there is no way the ball beats him.)