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By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:34:51 +0000

You forgot to mention the Randy Smith era in Detroit, where the Tigers didn’t have a winning record for 13 straight years, including one season where an amazing winning streak at the end of the season allowed us to remain one loss away from the worst record in baseball history.

I love the fact that the Tigers are playing good ball now, but losing in the World Series doesn’t erase over a decade of poor play. Perhaps if we had won it would be a different story.

By: PEFACommish

PEFACommish — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:39:33 +0000

Joe, you’ve given both San Francisco AND Oakland credit for the 1974/5 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors.

While that doesn’t seem right, there is some support for this. The Warriors played all of their regular season games and two rounds of the playoffs at the Oakland Arena, their home. This would make them, in theory, an Oakland team. However, because the Arena was booked for something stupid, like a circus, or worse, the Ice Capades, the two home games in the NBA finals were played at the San Francisco Cow Palace.

Still, it seems an understatement of the tsuris quotient for one of the cities.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:39:49 +0000

The age factor plays HUGE role in the personal misery index. I’m from Philly and was born in 1979. Do the math, it hasn’t been pretty. Although we do have the body bag game.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:55:34 +0000

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By: skyking162 » Blog Archive » Around The Web 10-12-07

skyking162 » Blog Archive » Around The Web 10-12-07 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:21:46 +0000

[...] his fun, yet intelligent blog posts. (He’s also a “real” Royals beat writer.) In this article, he runs through the 26 major sports cities and ranks them by Heartbreak Quotient. Cleveland and [...]

By: Press

Press — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:44:50 +0000

It probably doesn’t have the best Chinese restaurant in the world, but I’d be willing to bet that Houston has the best Chinese food in America not on the East or West Coasts. I make this claim because my parents are Chinese, and they insist on having their hereditary cuisine in every city we visit… which means I have had Chinese food in Little Rock, Arkansas.

By: George Koppe

George Koppe — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:03:26 +0000

Where your city ranks on the misery index may depend on your age. Since I’ve been in KC 50 years, things look a little different. I cut class my senior year of high school for the Super Bowl parade, got to cover the 1970s Yankees-Royals playoff series and jumped up and down on a bed containing my new, sick wife when George Brett hit the home run off Goose Gossage to clinch the 1980 pennant. My now 25-year-old son sat on my lap during the 1985 World Series and at my side on the third floor of an empty building on Grand Avenue to watch the parade. I saw the first Scouts home game and the next-to-last Kings home game. Back in 1984 I escorted a group of Boston real estate financiers around town and tried to sell them on the charms of downtown Kansas City. One of them stopped me in mid-sentence and said: “I only want to know one thing-what’s it like to live in a city that’s won the Super Bowl?” I had to tell him that it was pretty cool. And it still is. It wouldn’t hurt to see us win another one, or another World Series, for that matter. But nobody can take away the ones we’ve had, although plenty of obnoxious Cardinal fans have tried!

By: Jim Haas

Jim Haas — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:33:14 +0000

The Twin Cities’ sport misery quotient went up this year and there is just one name that encapsulates the reason: Childress.

Well, you could add Ponson, but he wasn’t here very long.

But the sports humor quotient has gone up because of Childress. He’s funny in a Gundy-ish way.

By: Asha

Asha — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:29:22 +0000

Love your posts! But, um, you know that Minnesota isn’t actually a city, right?

By: Chris R

Chris R — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:21:40 +0000

Here’s another one for the quotient:

Amount of memorable highlights in which your team is on the losing end that will be featured on historical highlight packages.

Cleveland’s got The Drive (and every time I see it, I wonder if that Brown d-lineman could have batted the Elway touchdown pass). KC has Chambliss in 1976. But nothing beats Mizzouri sports fans — with the kickball in the endzone, the 5th down play, Tyus Edney, etc., etc… I’ve come to the conclusion that their most memorable plays are games in which they’ve lost.