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Post by dablueboy on Jul 11, 2018 19:05:26 GMT -5
Back to back seasons for Everton, 2007/08 we went bold spending £11.5m on Yakubu to partner Andy Johnson and had two brilliant runs in the League Cup, making the semi finals before falling 3-1 over two legs against Chelsea, and the UEFA Cup, beating eventual winners Zenit in the group stage, ending AZ's unbeaten home record in Europe with a second string side and thrashing Brann 8-1 over two legs before a heartbreaking penalty shootout defeat to Fiorentina in the last 16 despite battering them in the second leg
The following year, despite bombing out of Europe at the first hurdle, having Yakubu miss pretty much the whole season with a ruptured achilies and having later injuries to other key players, we had a great run in the FA Cup beating Macclesfield, our near neighbours Liverpool in a replay, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough before we faced Manchester United in the Semi, our first in 15 years and held on my 24th birthday. We exorcised the demons from a year earlier by winning on pens to face Chelsea in the final which we unfortunately lost despite scoring the fastest ever FA Cup final goal
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Post by RI Richmark on Jul 11, 2018 20:18:46 GMT -5
After landing Adrain Gonzalez & Carl Crawford the Red Sox were optimistic at the beginning of 2011: Only to suffer the most epic of choke jobs in by blowing a 9 game lead September:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 20:49:14 GMT -5
A lot of us could have easily said 1994. And some of us are still pissed about that.
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Post by MWC on Jul 12, 2018 0:34:07 GMT -5
1998 Minnesota Vikings 2009 Minnesota Vikings 2017 Minnesota Vikings What amazing about that accurate list is that it doesn't even contain the years we were the favorite going into the Superbowl The Bills at least can contain all their crushing heartbreaks into one generation of falling short. The Vikings manage to maintain their consistency over countless coaches and players Those do totally count and I agree on the whole Bills comparison. I just didn't include those because I wasn't alive for them. It's amazing how much different of a conversation the entire franchise would be if any of those games would have went the opposite direction.
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Post by sfvega on Jul 12, 2018 3:37:01 GMT -5
The 11 Brewers. Prime Ryan Braun, prime Prince Fielder, just a great team overall and we blew it against the Cardinals. Made me absolutely sick. When the Cardinals beat the Rangers because the Rangers had one of the all-time worst chokes in Game 6, I was even more sick. That's not really a choke job. Cards just had really clutch hitting against a Texas bullpen that was their weakness. Cards were on fire that entire run. I went to a game in that NLCS. The Brewers kinda owned the whole NL that year, but the games in that series were pretty one-sided for St. Louis.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 12, 2018 8:30:24 GMT -5
the 11 Packers that had just won the Super Bowl and had gone 15-1 (How do you lose THAT BADLY to the Giants?) Historic offense, but a complete shit defense. That was one thing I've gotten right. I said that the Niners, Giants, and even Saints all had a better chance to win the NFC than Green Bay. The Niners and Giants could just push around the Packers defense with no problem, and their defense could slow down the Packers a little. The Saints had the offense to hang with the Packers, and a better defense. But that game against the Giants was just an ass kicking from beginning to end. A high powered offense with a terrible defense will not win a championship.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jul 12, 2018 11:28:14 GMT -5
2013 Cardinals. Sure there were some weak points but we had Matt Carpenter who was on fire that year, Allen Craig was an extra base machine and was hitting over 400 with RISP, and Beltran was on fire the whole year. Then we had to run into a red hot Big Papi and Craig/Beltran were battling injuries. Sigh, last time I felt we were a lock for a WS.
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 12, 2018 14:17:46 GMT -5
A lot of us could have easily said 1994. And some of us are still pissed about that. A Yankees vs. Expos World Series was a possibility. Poor Don Mattingly. In fact, one could argued that if the Knicks didn't cock up(and Hakeem wasn't otherworldly) and the Strike, The Cup, The Larry and Commissioner's would all been in NYC in '94. Another vote to the 2008 Giants. Man, Eli should have 3 rings.
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jul 12, 2018 17:04:19 GMT -5
2018, England.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 13, 2018 2:28:36 GMT -5
Hawthorn Hawks in 2012. Had a great season, finished the top the league, looked good in the finals (although almost got pipped in the prelim final against Adelaide).. come Grand Final the Sydney Swans outplayed the Hawks to win the premiership.
Well on the bright side .. the Hawks won the next three premierships.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 13, 2018 6:01:43 GMT -5
2009 Oklahoma Sooners, they had made it to the Championship Game the previous season, and returned Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham, Gerald McCoy, DeMarco Murray, and Ryan Reynolds. It looked great for Oklahoma, and then the first game of the season saw Bradford go down, a few days before the game Gresham had went down, and Oklahoma was without their top 2 offensive players. From there, key players kept getting hurt, teams knew that Oklahoma's offense was hurt, and the team limped to a 8-5 record.
2014 Oklahoma Sooners, the year before the Sooners had made the Sugar Bowl and really dominated Alabama. Trevor Knight looked like a Heisman winner in that game, and the future looked great for 2014. And then inconsistent Trevor Knight came back in full force, the team just underperformed all around, they lost at TCU (okay, TCU's a great team), the loss to K-State in Norman (Knight throwing into triple coverage allowing a pick 6, and the kicker missing 3 field goals), and then there was the Baylor game. Baylor should have been arrested for murdering that Sooners team, that was the worst game of the Stoops era. The Sooners then end the season with a loss in Bedlam, and getting stomped by Clemson.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 13, 2018 6:43:47 GMT -5
Matt Ryan's last year at BC. That program had always given you the feeling that they could be great if a few pieces came together and everyone felt like it could that year. Hell, they were ranked 2nd at one point. Unfortunately, that was the year where there was an upset in the top 3 basically every week and they were not the exception.
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Post by sfvega on Jul 13, 2018 7:06:42 GMT -5
2009 Oklahoma Sooners, they had made it to the Championship Game the previous season, and returned Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham, Gerald McCoy, DeMarco Murray, and Ryan Reynolds. It looked great for Oklahoma, and then the first game of the season saw Bradford go down, a few days before the game Gresham had went down, and Oklahoma was without their top 2 offensive players. From there, key players kept getting hurt, teams knew that Oklahoma's offense was hurt, and the team limped to a 8-5 record. 2014 Oklahoma Sooners, the year before the Sooners had made the Sugar Bowl and really dominated Alabama. Trevor Knight looked like a Heisman winner in that game, and the future looked great for 2014. And then inconsistent Trevor Knight came back in full force, the team just underperformed all around, they lost at TCU (okay, TCU's a great team), the loss to K-State in Norman (Knight throwing into triple coverage allowing a pick 6, and the kicker missing 3 field goals), and then there was the Baylor game. Baylor should have been arrested for murdering that Sooners team, that was the worst game of the Stoops era. The Sooners then end the season with a loss in Bedlam, and getting stomped by Clemson. Kinda surprised last year's OU team isn't on there. Once Baker Mayfield planted that flag in the Horseshoe, they were legit contenders and only lost to an amazing Georgia team in an absolute classic.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 13, 2018 7:54:00 GMT -5
2009 Oklahoma Sooners, they had made it to the Championship Game the previous season, and returned Sam Bradford, Jermaine Gresham, Gerald McCoy, DeMarco Murray, and Ryan Reynolds. It looked great for Oklahoma, and then the first game of the season saw Bradford go down, a few days before the game Gresham had went down, and Oklahoma was without their top 2 offensive players. From there, key players kept getting hurt, teams knew that Oklahoma's offense was hurt, and the team limped to a 8-5 record. 2014 Oklahoma Sooners, the year before the Sooners had made the Sugar Bowl and really dominated Alabama. Trevor Knight looked like a Heisman winner in that game, and the future looked great for 2014. And then inconsistent Trevor Knight came back in full force, the team just underperformed all around, they lost at TCU (okay, TCU's a great team), the loss to K-State in Norman (Knight throwing into triple coverage allowing a pick 6, and the kicker missing 3 field goals), and then there was the Baylor game. Baylor should have been arrested for murdering that Sooners team, that was the worst game of the Stoops era. The Sooners then end the season with a loss in Bedlam, and getting stomped by Clemson. Kinda surprised last year's OU team isn't on there. Once Baker Mayfield planted that flag in the Horseshoe, they were legit contenders and only lost to an amazing Georgia team in an absolute classic. I was just going with disappointing seasons. Last year I can't get mad at, or be disappointed in. The Sooners got to the playoff in Riley's first year as HC, Baker won the Heisman, and lost in a classic. No National Title, but that's cool.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 15, 2018 23:49:46 GMT -5
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jul 18, 2018 14:58:40 GMT -5
In football Manchester United 2013.
Ok so Sir Alex retired with winning the premier so he left the team on an excellent shape, Robin Van Persie was turning into a star, we are definitely gonna win for years to come and also win several champion leagues...
Enter David Moyes...we haven't recovered since.
In basketball Lakers 2011
The lakers traded for Chris Paul, at the time the best point guard in the league. With him and Kobe, we would've gotten probably the best backcourt of all time...then CP3 instead went to the clippers and the Lakers became a shitty team in no time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 7:01:33 GMT -5
2011 Vancouver Canucks. Pretty much the best team in every category that year, only to lose the cup by 1 game. Sadly in 2018 only 2 players remain from that roster and now it's the most nothing, random group of players in the NHL.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 8:40:44 GMT -5
1998 Jets - Best team in the longest time for the Jets. Made to to the AFC Championship only to fall to the Broncos. 2010 also had a good shot, but the 98 had the better chance at winning the Super Bowl IMO.
2011-2012 Rangers - Dominate throughout the season only to lose in the ECF to the Devils.
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Post by unc40 on Oct 4, 2018 22:53:47 GMT -5
1979 Orioles - This team seemed to be a team of destiny. They won a lot of close games and had a 3-1 game lead in the World Series but then scored just two runs in the final three games and lost the series to the Pirates.
1997 Orioles - Was loaded with talent (Ripken, Palmeiro, Alomar,and Mussina)and was in first the entire year. They sweep the Mariners in the ALDS and was on the verge of going up 2-0 on the Indians when Marquis Grissom hit the game winning home run in the ninth and turned that entire series around.
1998 North Carolina - The Tar Heels first year without Dean Smith but it was a team with a lot of talent, won over 30 games and made the Final Four but then had their worst game against Utah.
2004 Steelers - Went 15-1 in the regular season then the playoffs happened. They barely beat the Jets and then got stomped by the Patriots in the AFC Championship game. On an interesting note former XFL quarterback Tommy Maddox was the Steelers opening day starter but was injured and thats when Ben Roethlisberger took over as quarterback.
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Post by cabbageboy on Oct 5, 2018 17:34:26 GMT -5
Surprised no one has said the 2005 Colts. I know they won in 2006 but the 2005 team was almost certainly the best team Manning was on in Indy. 2009 could also be argued but that year I think the Saints were just better anyway.
As far as the St. Louis Cardinals go good grief you can make an argument for a ton of years. Obviously 1985 has to be the top of the list given the fiasco of Game 6. In 1987 the Cardinals had to play a road game 7 against a junk Twins team that could only win at home and was awful on the road. 2004 was mentioned, but how about 2005? Best record in baseball. Any of the 2000-02 years could also be argued. 2012-2015 as well.
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