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CMD's Top Devastating Sports Moments:
1. Duke '92
2. LSU '86
3. Wisconsin '15
4. Michigan '93
5. UConn '14
HM: Georgetown '84, Arizona '97, West Virginia '10
Basically, it's UK basketball, and that's it.
1. Duke '92
2. LSU '86
3. Wisconsin '15
4. Michigan '93
5. UConn '14
HM: Georgetown '84, Arizona '97, West Virginia '10
Basically, it's UK basketball, and that's it.
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- It can't be overstated how important it is to have your own Costanza-like private bathroom at your place of employment.
- Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone made me cry like a 5 year old. . . because I was. I don't know what made me a Cowboys fan, but they were my first emotional connection. Danny White sorta looked like my dad, I guess? Now, I don't really care. If they win, it's cool. I didn't feel a true sports heartbreak again until '92. That game broke me. Sure, there have been UK games that pissed me off or made me have to leave the house for a couple of hours, but Christian took away my will to feel. Being in charge of a team also takes up almost all of the available personal emotional investment. I mean, look at Llama. And watch the evolutionary shift in Max this season.
- Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone made me cry like a 5 year old. . . because I was. I don't know what made me a Cowboys fan, but they were my first emotional connection. Danny White sorta looked like my dad, I guess? Now, I don't really care. If they win, it's cool. I didn't feel a true sports heartbreak again until '92. That game broke me. Sure, there have been UK games that pissed me off or made me have to leave the house for a couple of hours, but Christian took away my will to feel. Being in charge of a team also takes up almost all of the available personal emotional investment. I mean, look at Llama. And watch the evolutionary shift in Max this season.
Some of you can post on GYERO for, literally, years with not a single mention of the Chicago Cubs. Rarely if ever attend a game. Or even watch baseball. Hell, you barely even follow the sport -- which basically died the day Bud Selig canceled the Series in '94, and you haven't gone back since.
But, lord help you. A loss tonight would be GUT WRENCHING. Good luck, and puppies.
But, lord help you. A loss tonight would be GUT WRENCHING. Good luck, and puppies.
StL Fandom started same time as UK for me. Third generation fan for both. Grandparents listened on the radio before TV.
The 1985 and 1987 World Series outcomes were devastating for a young lb123. Was there at the final games in 2006 and 2011, which was unbelievable .
The 1985 and 1987 World Series outcomes were devastating for a young lb123. Was there at the final games in 2006 and 2011, which was unbelievable .
I just don't understand why we're crushing people who chose to be fans of the least successful pro team ever. I mean I'd get it if we were talking about the Yankees or Alabama football or Kentucky wildcats basketball but the Cubs always suck. Let them enjoy tonight imo
I don't understand why you post.
You love me Adrian. Don't start this again. No one believes you.
Cubs fans that have never lived a day of their lives within 250 miles of Chicago can suck a dick. Christ, you people are f*cking insufferable.
The Wisconsin loss is the only one that seriously compromised my love of watching the sport for almost an entire year.
92 produced more sadness and anger. Wisconsin shell shocked me.
92 produced more sadness and anger. Wisconsin shell shocked me.
If both teams could lose tonight in humiliating fashion I'd be very happy.
How did everyone else feel about Wisconsin? Were you upset with the loss?.
- I'll be pissed if the Cubs lose tonight...but will be over it in a few days/week. The Wisconsin loss still hurts.
- Had a fundraiser at a curling match a couple weeks ago...it was a blast. The curling club here has a bar and I've been going up there in the evenings having a few cold ones and watching the league play. Oddly fascinating.
Hoping to get a chance to play this weekend.
- Less than a week until the election...taking a couple months off after. Been a grind.
- Had a fundraiser at a curling match a couple weeks ago...it was a blast. The curling club here has a bar and I've been going up there in the evenings having a few cold ones and watching the league play. Oddly fascinating.
Hoping to get a chance to play this weekend.
- Less than a week until the election...taking a couple months off after. Been a grind.
Curling fans that grew up more than 250 miles from the arctic can get pumped.
I never said a loss tonight would be gut-wrenching. Yes, the Cubs are my favorite MLB team and have been for a long time. If they win tonight, I will be excited; if they lose tonight, I will be disappointed. However, either emotion will last, maybe, 30 minutes. Then my attention turns to Georgia. I have a deep emotional attachment to UK sports. That's it. No MLB teams, no NFL teams, no NBA teams, etc. I got back into MLB this season after my divorce. I had more time to pay attention to it and it was a welcome escape. The Cubs' best season since 1945 happened to coincide. I got lucky on the timing, I guess. Get fisted, dick.
Actually, you all just sound like butthurt fans of a rival team that is playing for a title.
It's become a bit pathetic, but nothing too earth shattering about it, really.
It's become a bit pathetic, but nothing too earth shattering about it, really.
One of the rare cases where the mugshot is better than real life:Jalen Hurd's mom in her mugshot pic after her arrest at a game earlier this year.
Bruce Pearl's son wore cargo shorts to his step sons Senior night? Good grief.
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We moved to Clearwater bought a house and all that. All good for a couple months but the prospect of working for the amount of money I'd make there vs what I make in KW wasn't worth the loss of quality of life for me just yet. So I came back here.
It's hard to leave an island when you have a ton of friends, good jobs, a boat and nothing but ocean around you. She was over this place and was never really into it down here.
Meeting her at a nice hotel in Laudy this weekend though :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:.
Now...
First off @PTI (pti) no one growing up in KY in the 80/90s parents would ever have said, "Let's take the kids up to a few games in Cleveland this week to experience the magic that is the Indians and the city of Cleveland". Jesus Christ, it's not that hard to figure out.
Secondly, @chitown87 how long did you live in KY? Cause if it's not longer than me or during your formative years, than you're not a real fan and an insufferable prick as per my requirements. If you ever lived in KY then there is some douchebag Chicagoan that probably says you're not a real fan because you left for x years during blank run and only real fans stayed during those years.
Thirdly, I don't really give a touch. Just pointing out the absurdity of proximity/time/etc debate. I don't live and die with the Cubs like I do with UK, but I've liked them a whole lot for a long time and would be very happy to have memories of going to a few games this year and one of them a World Series game (@chitwon87 did you even go to a World Series game you pretentious *** Cubs fan/Chicagoan).
And yeah @wcc31 everyone was pretty much in knots the whole game. But it does help when it's not a one game playoff every weekend on a neutral site like in college bball.
It's hard to leave an island when you have a ton of friends, good jobs, a boat and nothing but ocean around you. She was over this place and was never really into it down here.
Meeting her at a nice hotel in Laudy this weekend though :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:.
Now...
First off @PTI (pti) no one growing up in KY in the 80/90s parents would ever have said, "Let's take the kids up to a few games in Cleveland this week to experience the magic that is the Indians and the city of Cleveland". Jesus Christ, it's not that hard to figure out.
Secondly, @chitown87 how long did you live in KY? Cause if it's not longer than me or during your formative years, than you're not a real fan and an insufferable prick as per my requirements. If you ever lived in KY then there is some douchebag Chicagoan that probably says you're not a real fan because you left for x years during blank run and only real fans stayed during those years.
Thirdly, I don't really give a touch. Just pointing out the absurdity of proximity/time/etc debate. I don't live and die with the Cubs like I do with UK, but I've liked them a whole lot for a long time and would be very happy to have memories of going to a few games this year and one of them a World Series game (@chitwon87 did you even go to a World Series game you pretentious *** Cubs fan/Chicagoan).
And yeah @wcc31 everyone was pretty much in knots the whole game. But it does help when it's not a one game playoff every weekend on a neutral site like in college bball.
You are EXACTLY the type of *** I was talking about with no ties whatsoever to Chicago or Illinois. Not even close to me and Kentucky, seeing as I'm a GD alumnus.
I'll stop blowing up GYERO with this nonsense. I wouldn't mind seeing the Cubs win tonight, as my mom and most of my friends are Cubs fans and want this badly, but people like you can get pumped.
One of the rare cases where the mugshot is better than real life:
Yea right mugshot doesn't show those bombastic titties wowww.
So therefore, you're as much of a UK fan as a Chinese foreign exchange student. So....congrats?
That's it, folks. PTI has laid down the law. No casual fan here in Kentucky can causally cheer for the Cubs, especially tonight.
Cubs fan 30+ years but I'm not emotionally invested in any pro sports team to let it ruin my day, win or lose. Nothing gives me the highest highs and the lowest lows like UK basketball where you can dwell on one single thing for months.
I get the same euphoria from a big UK football win but the losses don't affect me like a big basketball loss does because you're conditioned to the failure that is UK football but when the football program does something spectacular like in 2007, total bliss. My only son was born the morning of Oct. 13, 2007, we beat LSU that night. I went to bed that night knowing I had the Greatest Day Ever in My Life, that nothing could ever top two events like that in a single day.
The only other things that give me euphoria sportswise is Louisville losing football or basketball. UNC, Duke, IU losing in basketball makes me really happy, too.
I get the same euphoria from a big UK football win but the losses don't affect me like a big basketball loss does because you're conditioned to the failure that is UK football but when the football program does something spectacular like in 2007, total bliss. My only son was born the morning of Oct. 13, 2007, we beat LSU that night. I went to bed that night knowing I had the Greatest Day Ever in My Life, that nothing could ever top two events like that in a single day.
The only other things that give me euphoria sportswise is Louisville losing football or basketball. UNC, Duke, IU losing in basketball makes me really happy, too.
-'15
-'10
-'93
-'95
-'05
All were worse losses for me than Duke '92.
-'10
-'93
-'95
-'05
All were worse losses for me than Duke '92.
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