The Team with the Most Disappointing Season?

by zogger on Sep 30, 2009 7:41 PM EDT Comment 19 comments

Yes, the Bucs had another losing year. But I don't think they had the most disappointing season. By disappointing, I mean a team that expected to do well and didn't. Or a team that expected to improve and didn't.

How would you like to be a Cubs fan right now? Didn't make the playoffs-again! Team aging.

Or maybe a Tampa Bay fan? Last year you were in the World Series, this year you are barely over .500!

How about them Mets-no post season for them (again!) and their team is getting much older! Plus you paid big bucks for Ollie!

The Brew Crew look they are going nowhere.

So while the Bucs did not do well this year, I still prefer them over quite a few other team.

Who did you think had the most disappointing season? My pick is Tampa Bay. Quite a fall from the World Series.

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The Cubs

were the overwhelming faves to win the NL Central. Gotta think that’s the biggest flop.

Before the season began, though, I laughed out loud, long and hard, over their signing of Milton
Bradley to the ridiculous contract that they’re going to have to eat most of to get rid of him. (wow, what a great run-on sentence!)

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Sep 30, 2009 7:50 PM EDT reply actions

AND

We just took a double header from them

BWAH-hahahahahahaha!!!!

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Sep 30, 2009 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions

....and look who got the last laugh.

"So you think 25 percent of the country is retarded?! Yea. Atleast 25 percent. Well lets so a sample. There are 4 of us an you're retarded. Thats 25 percent." Southpark; Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

by gorillakilla34 on Oct 1, 2009 5:27 AM EDT up reply actions

definitely the cubbies

but then again with the assumption of failure always at hand with them, perhaps not.

the rays had a winning season the AL east. hard to call that a disappointing year.

wasn’t vlad advocating for us to sign milton bradley before the season? not that it’s the only prediction to ever go awry but to me it seemed like a bad idea from the start.

by johnnycuff on Oct 1, 2009 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

Pretty hard for me to choose between the Cubs and the Mets.

When you look at all of the money the Mets shelled out the last couple of years on Santana and Perez I’m sure they were expecting much better results. Then again, the Bradley situation has the Cubs in a tough spot. Hard to go wrong with either team. Can’t pick he Brewers because they lost two Aces coming into the season and didn’t replace them so I really wasn’t expecting them to make the playoffs again.

OK, I’ll take the Cubs.

by Slick1 on Sep 30, 2009 8:52 PM EDT reply actions

Gotta be the Mets

As you said, big bucks for Ollie, in addition to paying big big bucks for K-Rod, who hasn’t been bad, but clearly wasn’t brought in to close for a terrible team. Alot of people like to give Huntington grief, but imagine having 100 million dollars and a talented core that includes Reyes, Wright, Santana, and K-Rod, yet finishing 4th in your division.

Granted, the Mets have gotten the injury bug this year, but that stadium doesn’t look to be a help to those young batters, plus the fact that the Phillies are vastly better than them right now, and the Braves and Marlins are much improved over last year, clearly in my opinion makes the Mets the most disappointing.

by jlk9697 on Sep 30, 2009 8:52 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, I forgot about K-Rod.

Ok, I change mine to the Mets.

by Slick1 on Sep 30, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, but

the Mets and the Yanks overspend every year.

Are they always a disappointment?

If you’re a fan of theirs, yes. Every year.

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Sep 30, 2009 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Mets #1

TB #2
CUBS #3

by eyeofhorus777 on Sep 30, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions

Just for being terrible the Nats

but dissapoointing Either the Cubs or Mets

"Polamalu’s lineage can be traced through several roots. Chuck Norris mated with an Amazon Queen, and on the other side, Tony Hawk mated with Mother Nature.

The two children of these spawned and fused in a tantric love session to create Troy Polamalu. The mother however died as he tore through the birth canal with a spin move."
Mechem on the roots of Troy Polamalu

by WVPiratesfan on Sep 30, 2009 11:12 PM EDT reply actions

Mets hands down

Just got swept by the f—king Nats this week!

-Grossly over paid for Ollie
-Same could be said for K-Rod. Has good save numbers but is having velocity trouble and is walking too many batters.
-Terrible injury problems all season. And just in, Reyes has hurt his hamstring…..again…..while being on the DL…..has does that happen.

by dulciusEXasperis on Sep 30, 2009 11:54 PM EDT reply actions

Yep.

Proof that spending lots of money isn’t necessarily going to put a winner on the field.

by IAPiratesFan on Oct 1, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions

Not just swept...

…but swept by a WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM on a full count with 2 outs by a f—king PINCH RUNNER facing your $37,000,000 CLOSER!!!

You want to talk about brutal. Do you realize how much salary the Mets have on DL this season?

by bryanzane on Oct 1, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions

Enough to Make Marge Schott kill people

"Polamalu’s lineage can be traced through several roots. Chuck Norris mated with an Amazon Queen, and on the other side, Tony Hawk mated with Mother Nature.

by WVPiratesfan on Oct 1, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

More than our entire

payroll?

by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Oct 1, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

"I'm paying that guy four million dollars to sit on his butt!" (Referring to Jose Rijo, on the DL at the time )

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Oct 1, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions

And we think the Nuttings are bad

atleast they’re not racist’s who think Hitler wasn’t that bad and let they’re dogs crap on the field. Side note I think even though she is dead I think she still has a very small stake in teh ownership in the Reds, But i could be wrong

"Polamalu’s lineage can be traced through several roots. Chuck Norris mated with an Amazon Queen, and on the other side, Tony Hawk mated with Mother Nature.

by WVPiratesfan on Oct 1, 2009 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions

On second thought...

the A’s should probably be added to the list. They traded for Holliday and signed Cabrera because they thought they had a legitimate shot at winning this season. They weren’t the most disappointing but given their record they should be in the top 5.

by Slick1 on Oct 1, 2009 12:07 AM EDT reply actions

Disappointed: Cubs fans.
Embarrassed to the point that they should make they’re team wear duct tape over their mouths whenever not on the field: Mets fans.

Cubs fans have been stoic in their long wait. They’ve had a number great players and teams over the years; that have just not got it done. They were led to believe by some ‘writers’ that they might actually be involved in this post-season; but they won’t be. I feel that they are now the most disappointed fans in baseball.

Mets fans have had to put up with their players, managers and front office crew, telling them (and everyone else in this universe) for the last three pre-seasons, and during those seasons; that, they are the absolute greatest team ever. They have been force fed the story, over and over, that the Mets truly are not only destined for greatness; but also that they were somehow predetermined for greatness.

If I were a Cubs fan I would be disappointed. If I were a Mets fan I would deny it. As a Pirates fan cautiously optimistic.

Paul

by lighthouse913 on Oct 1, 2009 2:47 AM EDT reply actions