# the lowest you ever felt after your team lost **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279 "2001-06-02T00:41:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/41 "2001-06-03T23:34:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Reality Chuck I almost forgot about that. Real sad. I remember watching the race with my dad. He didn’t have any bets down, but I remember him moaning “Aw, that horse, that beautiful horse.”. How tragic. > > How much did you lose? Only two dollars. I still have the OTB ticket. Maybe I can auction it at e-bay. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/42 "2001-06-03T23:39:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by holdenmagroin \* > \*\*This is the same list that had Mark McGwire as the best all-time 1st baseman. That pretty much erases all creditability for the above comment. They shouldn’t have let 12 year old boys cast ballots for that. \*\* Actually, for the All-Century Team, Lou Gehrig recieved the most votes. And the only voting part IIRC was narrowing down the 100 greatest to the 30-man roster for the All-Century Team. I’m not sure who picked the 100 greatest (The Sporting News leaps to mind), but I don’t remember it being a vote. I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![TexasSpur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@TexasSpur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasSpur)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/43 "2001-06-03T23:55:06Z")
Sorry to stay off topic, but I looked and it was The Sporting News that picked the 100 greatest players list. They had Eckersley at 98. The thing is, there were a lot of players that were great that were not first ballot inductees. If my memory serves me right, someone like Hank Aaron was not a first ballot. I tried to find out, but I couldn’t find out who all was first and who wasn’t. Anyway, here is the link on Eckersley. [http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-1.html](http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/44 "2001-06-04T00:00:48Z")
Wow, Hank Aaron wasn’t first ballot? That’s odd. You’d think the Home Run king would be voted in ASAP, especially as a member of the 3000 hit club in addition to the HRs. Thanks for the link **TexasSpur** Sorry for the hijack, everyone. ---
**Author:** ![TexasSpur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@TexasSpur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasSpur)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/45 "2001-06-04T00:08:04Z")
I’m not sure it was Hank Aaron, but I know there was someone big like him that wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/46 "2001-06-04T00:12:35Z")
Now that I think of it, I believe Goose Goslin is an example of one of the 100 greatest that didn’t get elected on the first ballot. IIRC correctly, it was many years before he was recognized and voted in. Yet there he is, 100 greatest. So maybe Eckersley’s chances aren’t so hot after all. Makes me wonder about St Louis fans’ (and I am one of them) assertions that Ozzie Smith is a shoe-in. Ok, I’m done. Sorry for hijacking again. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/47 "2001-06-04T02:00:24Z")
I would just like to say that I read the title to this thread as Iowest… you know, most like Iowa. I’ll be going now. ::slinkso ut the back way:: ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/48 "2001-06-04T02:16:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\*NFL playoffs, 1992 (IIRC). > > The Houston Oilers, whom I’d followed through years of coming agonizingly close, went into halftime 38-3 over the Buffalo Bills. I don’t know what they did during halftime, but they forgot who they were and managed to lose that game. \*\* Yeah, I would have to agree **beatle** even though I wasn’t a major Houston fan, I thought that was one of the most humiliating things I have ever seen. I was 9 at the time and I remember setting on my stairs crying about it. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/49 "2001-06-04T03:53:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\*NFL playoffs, 1992 (IIRC). > > The Houston Oilers, whom I’d followed through years of coming agonizingly close, went into halftime 38-3 over the Buffalo Bills. I don’t know what they did during halftime, but they forgot who they were and managed to lose that game. I haven’t followed pro sports since. > \*\* I had lost all respect for the Oilers when they threatened to move to Jacksonville in 1985 IIRC. Bud Adams (that freaking forkhead of a shizer) forced Astrodome USA to take out the scoreboard. Loser. Hope you enjoy Nashville! Putz. > [@](#): > > \*\* > And **[robgruver](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1352214#post1352214)**, I attended that 'Stros game - I was exhausted bt the time it ended. \*\* I taped it a couple of months ago when they played it on ESPN classic. Remind me at the next Doper Gathering (my [BBQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70327) perhaps) I will get you a copy. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/50 "2001-06-04T06:55:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > **1985. Game 5 of NLCS between the Cardinals and my Dodgers. Where that bastard Jack Clark(who now wears Dodger blue, oh, the cruel irony) drilled a high fastball off Tom Neidenfuer for a home run, winning the game, the series, and effectively ending Tom’s career.** Um, was it Game 6 that same year when Ozzie Smith took Niedenfuer deep for his first home run hit lefthanded? That was even worse, IMHO. At least Clark was a power hitter. These memories sucked, too. It’s just that my beloved UCLA Bruins and California Angels meant more to me than the Dodgers (not by much in the case of the Angels). ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/51 "2001-06-04T07:36:04Z")
FA Cup semi-final, Oldham Athletic vs Manchester Utd. Oldham, my team and perennial underachievers, took a surprise lead in extra-time through mulleted psycho Neil Pointon. Graeme Sharp then missed a sitter - allowing Mark Hughes to score a last-second equaliser past Jon Hallworth. Okay, we didn’t lose, but that body-blow was the end. We lost the replay 4-1, then a physically shattered team gave up the ghost and was relegated to the first division. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/52 "2001-06-04T10:02:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > > **1985. Game 5 of NLCS between the Cardinals and my Dodgers. Where that bastard Jack Clark(who now wears Dodger blue, oh, the cruel irony) drilled a high fastball off Tom Neidenfuer for a home run, winning the game, the series, and effectively ending Tom’s career.** > > Um, was it Game 6 that same year when Ozzie Smith took Niedenfuer deep for his first home run hit lefthanded? > > \*\* Actually, we both got it wrong. Ozzie’s heroics were in Game 5, Jack Clark’s in Game 6. Oh Tom, poor Tom… ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279/53 "2001-06-04T21:58:24Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by PatrickM \* \*\* > [@](#): > > As a Cleveland fan let me also add: Michael Jordan’s f\*\*\*\*\*g shot over Craig Ehlo in the 1989 NBA playoffs and the Indians blowing the lead in the 9th inning of the 7th game of the 1997 World Series. > > I don’t want to hear any whining from any Cub or Red Sox fans. \*\* That was bad, yep. I heard that they had the freaking World Series trophy outside the locker room going into the ninth. Stinking Mesa. As soon as they gave him the ball, I knew it was over (likewise Nagy in the 12th.) I was depressed for weeks, and I still hate that little sh\*t Craig Counsell who hit the game-winning sacrifice. He plays for the Diamondbacks now, which means I have to see him with unfortunate frequency. I like the DBacks, but I’ll always hate him. Freakin’ pinhead in his oversized batting helmet… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lowest-you-ever-felt-after-your-team-lost/67279.md?page=2)