Worst Loss

Dr. Giganto

Inspired by a column on SI.com, what's the worst loss that one of your teams has suffered. I can think of a few in reent memory that were a real kick in the nuts.

1. Yankees vs. Diamondbacks, Game 7, 2001 World Series. I've always said I would trade the 4 World Series championships in my lifetime if we could have only won that game. Less than 2 months after 9/11, it would have meant so much to NYC had the Yankees won. We of course had the magical games 3-5 at Yankee Stadium to remember, but it's a little tarnished by the Yankees losing this game. Not to mention the fact that it set off a string of terrible, impulsive free agent signings on Steinbrenner's orders.

2-4. Yankees vs. Red Sox, Games 4-6, 2004 ALCS. If Jorge Posada throws out Dave Roberts, the Yankees sweep and play the Cardinals in the World Series (match-up of the two winningest MLB teams).

If Torre sends a runner in extra innings of Game 5, with Jason Varitek feebly attempting to catch Tim Wakefield, the Yankees win on one of Varitek's two passed balls. Instead, Gary Sheffield is stranded on 3rd, and Ortiz wins the game for the Red Sox once again.

Also, if the Yankees had tried to bunt and make Curt Schilling field his position in Game 6, perhaps they would have had a few more baserunners, and taken Curt Schilling off his game. Instead, Schilling throws a gem, and at that point the Yankees didnt even have a chance against the Red Sox.

5. Giants vs. 49ers, 2003 NFC Wild Card playoffs. Jeremy Shockey drops a TD in the end zone which would have put the game out of reach. Then, the Niners move T.O. to the slot, and the Giants are too stupid to adjust, putting washed-up Jason Sehorn on him. Then, the Giants lose the game when long-snapper Trey Junkin (signed specifically to help solve the special teams problems) makes only like the second bad snap of his career. And, there's a non-call on obvious pass interference at the end of the game.

6. Giants vs. Panthers, 2006 NFC Wild Card playoffs. This was especially tough because I was at the stadium for this game. I was so pumped up for the game, and it was so disappointing. Giants look poor on offense, poor on defense, and they lose 23-0.

7-8. Knicks vs. Heat, Games 6 and 7, Eastern Conference semifinals, 1998 (I dont remember exactly what year it was). The Knicks were cruising along, about to go up 3-2 on the archrival Miami Heat in Game 5. Then, Charlie Ward and PJ Brown get tangled up during a free throw attempt, and Brown literally picks Ward up and body-slams him. Several of the Knicks players stand up and walk two or three feet away from the bench, and are forced to sit out Games 6 and 7 because of a rule in basketball that says you recieve an automatic suspension if you leave the bench during a fight. Even if you dont get involved and just take two steps off the bench. Which is all Patrick Ewing did. Even if you try to break it up, which is what Allan Houston and Larry Johnson did. God, that was such bullshit, and I've hated PJ Brown ever since.

9. Knicks vs. Rockets, Game 7, 1994 NBA Finals. John Starks: 2-18. 'Nuff said.

10. St. Johns vs. Gonzaga, 2nd round, 1999 NCAA Tournament. The Johnnies, led by Ron Artest, were a #2 seed that year, having won the Big East conference. Gonzaga was just an upstart team that nobody had heard of, except for the fact that John Stockton went there. The Johnnies squeaked by Northern Arizona in the first round, and then were upset by #10 seed Gonzaga in round two. With a team of Ron Artest, Erick Barkley, Bootsy Thornton, Anthony Glover, and Lavar Postell, this was St. John's best chance to win the NCAA championship during my adult life. After this game, Artest left for the NBA, and the Johnnies went on a downward spiral, both in quality of play and off-court events.

shin zearim

I think the toughest was the Yankees losing up 3 games to nothing. I live in massachusetts and man did i get shit on forever and a day aobut that. I still do to this day. One of these days i'm going to have to just move back to New York just to get away from the torment of the Red Sox fans. But hey i'll take the Yankees rings over 86 years of waiting any day.

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

Uh oh, our admin is a Red Sox fanatic.

ha ha ha.....

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

The worst loss huh? God, the Braves had so many where do I begin? Leyritz? Yeah, that's a start.. that asshole. The Braves bullpen blew so many big games over the years, fucking rediculous..

Niners have never really hurt me.

It was a tough pill to swallow with UCONN losing to Mason this year.. but I was actually deep down kinda ahppy for the little team that could..

shin zearim

Duke had a tough loss to UCONN two years ago. Duke was winning the whole time and in the last 2 mins UCONN walked all over them and won. I remember my friend whos die hard duke, couldn't wear a blue devil shirt for a month or two.

Crocker

Ok I have a few (Brits will know why)

Man Utd 5 Man City 0 - A hammering by our biggest rivals, doesnt get any worse than that

Lincoln 4 Man City 1 - We had just got relegated from the Premiership in 1996 and we played lowly Lincoln in the League Cup and they battered us

Liverpool 6 Man City 0/Liverpool 4 Man City 0 - These 2 games happened within a few days of each other

Man City 1 West Ham 2 - Our best chance of a Cup final in years and we blew it

Any defeat to Crystal Palace - Now thats plain embarassing

Ive got plenty more, will come back later

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

The 1992 East Regional Final of the NCAA tournament where Christian Laettner hit the game winning last second shot to lift Duke over Kentucky 104-103. That was just heartbreaking.

Dr. Giganto

actually, i just looked it up, and the St. John's loss to Gonzaga was the year after Artest left. (and i was upset because I knew that if artest had stayed one more year they would have had a chance of winning it all). Artest's last year, they lost in the Elite 8 to an Ohio St. team led by Michael Redd and Scoonie Penn.

However, Ohio State's records for that season have been stricken from the NCAA record book, because of violations committed by the head coach. So yeah, that sucked too.

K Jay

Sorry! hahaha, where were donny on that list???

Seriously England 1 Argentina 2 1986, England 1 Brazil 2 1998 and Liverpool losing to Wimbledon in the FA Cup final, they all stand out, also about 6 years ago Chelsea took us out of the FA Cup in about round 5, we were 2 up at half time and they did us 4-2, that sucked!!!

I had a sig, once.

shin zearim

This years world cup brought out a huge loss, I'm not a fan of either of these teams but Poland losing to Germany 0-1 had to of been a heart breaker. Germany scores in the 91st minute to win it. I mean if you watched 5 minutes of that game you could feel how into it everyone was. It was just a great game, and when Germany scored the Polish fans died. I was into the game big time but i really didn't care who did what after the game.