My father has been following the San Francisco Giants for 43 years.
Number of World Series titles: 0.
Moreover, the one time he gets World Series tickets, there’s an earthquake.
We have a winner! Oh, what a bummer!
I am fanatically devoted to two teams: San Francisco Giants, and Univ of California Golden Bears (specifically, football). In 1986, the Bears were dead last in the Pac-10, and the Giants dead last in the NL West. Good times, good times…
Both have gone through up & down cycles since then, although an up cycle for the Bears means a winning season–not having gone to the Rose Bowl since 1958. In 1975 we had the #1 offense in the land, and a Heisman Trophy runner-up, and would’ve gone to the Rose Bowl-- if USC hadn’t rolled over like the dogs they were and laid down for UCLA on the last day of the season. (bitter much?)
The 2002 World Series was probably the single most painful event. In the 7th inning of game 6, Giants up 3 games to 2 and with a big (4-run?) lead, Fox starts showing film of the last Giants WS win (1954)…I start screaming NOOOOO!!! YOU"LL JINX IT!!!..to no avail…
Annie-Xmas, I’m sorry, but the 2001 World Series was, for the millions of Yankee haters in the land, proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. 
Willie Mays popped a cork before the game was over.
If he were anyone but Willie Mays he would’ve been executed immediately.
Yeah, firing Bob Brenly (one of my favorite Giants ever) sure turned your season around… 
Funny thing about expectations. If a Cal team were to go 7-7 and lose a bowl game, we’d give the coach a raise.
More typically: the 1991 Cal team won a bowl game, finished 10-2 and #8 in the polls; but the @#$ AD wouldn’t discuss the coach’s contract, so he skipped town. So every silver lining has a cloud.
DUH! I meant a Bosox & Cubbies World Series :smack:
My knowledge of professional sports is extremely limited and tends to glitch up.
I have a firm belief that if the Cubs and Red Sox ever meet in the World Series, they would each win three of the first six games and then every day would be a rainout until Spring Training. 
Zev Steinhardt
As a Mets fan (after 1980, which was the year I was born) the mid 90s were very painful to watch. Especially the era of Vince Coleman throwing bleach on reporters.
As a Cleveland fan asking me to pick out the worst season is like asking a camel to differentiate between grains of sand in the Sahara, but if I had to pick, it would be 1995. That was the year the Indians steam-rolled through the season and the Red Sox, beat Seattle in a tough ALCS series and then became the only team to lose the World Series to Atlanta, which was immediately followed by the sucker punch of the announcement that the Browns were moving to Baltimore. We went from the heights to the depths really damn fast.
Shoot, not just a rainout – it would be raining frogs & locusts.