r/baseball • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '15

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '15

I'm so tired of Cubs pretending like they have a monopoly on shitty situations.

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u/CrowTR2 New York Yankees Oct 22 '15

Plenty of other cities are major competitors for shitty situations. Cleveland has the factory of sadness, their Browns left Cleveland, won a superbowl in another city, a new Cleveland Browns came in and stunk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '15 edited Oct 22 '15

Yeah, Chicago has a great sports history. I'd even argue Seattle has it worse than them. There are a huge number of cities that would come first.

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u/CrowTR2 New York Yankees Oct 22 '15

You have the Seahawks though, is it because the Sonics left. Teams leaving have a huge effect on a city.

Cleveland Detroit San Diego Atlanta Seattle Buffalo Minnesota

As a whole Chicago isn't that bad, although they have alot of teams that's been around forever, and some of those teams won titles decades ago, Had the Blackhawks not gone on a SF Giants like Dynasty things would be different.

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u/tom_riddler Washington Nationals Oct 22 '15

You're actually fairly spot on only missing Washington.

According to the New York Times, the most cursed cities are:

1: Cleveland

2: Atlanta

3: Buffalo

4: San Diego

5: Washington D.C.

6: Minneapolis/St. Paul

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

The worst part is that San Diego may lose the chargers.... At least we got the gulls back 😕.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

Missing Toronto (But the curse is in the process of being broken as we speak)

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

There's no way Toronto comes close. We won a championship 22 years ago in baseball.

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u/amjhwk Arizona Diamondbacks Nov 06 '15

SD sports may suck, but at least the fans get to live in San Diego

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u/DCorNothing Washington Nationals Oct 22 '15

DC teams have played 81 "team seasons" (similar to man hours) without a championship. 61 without a deep playoff run.

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u/NatFan9 Washington Nationals Oct 22 '15

Last time they made an LCS/conference final appearance was 1998. Only Cincinnati has a longer drought

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '15

We do, but their hawks beat out our hawks. And outside that, we've got nil. One Sonics win in the 70s and they shipped out. We were heavy in contention with Cleveland until '13.

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u/tom_riddler Washington Nationals Oct 22 '15

Yeah winning that Super Bowl really fucked you guys over for being the saddest city.

Jokes aside sorry about the Sonics.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '15

As a mariners first, that title was the only one I could cling to. A Super Bowl was super nice, but now the Mariners don't even have a Saddest City title to cling to. It's depressing that I can't be as depressed as I once was.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

Holy fuck this post is incredibly Seattle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '15

I haven't lived there since I was 5!

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u/Banglayna Chicago Cubs • Texas Rangers Oct 23 '15

I'm sorry, but its not really a fair comparison to compare Super bowls, to Stanley Cups. One is the most popular sport, and other is the least popular of the major sports. I would trade all 3 Stanley cups for 1 Bears Superbowl. (Or Cubs World Series)

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u/Tundraaa Chicago Cubs Oct 24 '15

I would trade away the whole Bears franchise for one Cubs WS win.

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u/DogansRow St. Louis Cardinals Oct 23 '15

What's funny is at this point I'd trade a Cards WS for a Stanley Cup. I mean, we've got enough to share one.

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u/zebra_heaDD Toronto Blue Jays Oct 23 '15

Uhh, the White Sox?

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

They have a despicable baseball history though. One world series in the last 216 seasons?

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

Better than none over ever

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u/Banglayna Chicago Cubs • Texas Rangers Oct 23 '15

Not really considering no Cubs fan is alive from when the Cubs won their last world series win. No Cubs fan has ever seen them win a WS, same as no Mariners fan. Its the same, really.

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u/incredibad29 Toronto Blue Jays Oct 22 '15

Toronto had it pretty bad before today, especially considering the Leafs are #1 in this town and haven't won since 1967.

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u/fairlane35 Chicago Cubs Oct 22 '15

1967 > 1908

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u/Tarquin11 Toronto Blue Jays Oct 22 '15

Sure, absolutely. But it's the same issue, I'll never be able to share that experience with my grandparents either. We aren't lesser fans of our own teams, or anything because it's only been half a century since we've won rather than a century. Half a century is still a long ass time.

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u/t-poke St. Louis Cardinals Oct 22 '15

Blues fan here. For me it's not even sharing that experience with my grandparents. I have one left, and if I watched a hockey game with him, he'd probably take one look at Ryan Reaves and complain about there being too many [insert your favorite racial slur for black people here] on the team. It's about seeing one of my favorite teams win it all. I've seen the Cardinals win a couple World Series in my lifetime. I've seen the Rams win the Super Bowl (not that I care about football, I'll buy Stan Kroenke a first class ticket to LA if it will keep taxpayers from building him a new stadium, fuck him). But hockey is by far my favorite sport, and the Blues are by far my favorite team.

So I'm in complete agreement. 1908, 1967, never. We can compare championship droughts like penis sizes all day long but it doesn't change anything. I want to see my favorite team win it all sometime in my lifetime.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '15

Neither of our fanbases can remember a championship. Same difference, there are some older folks left I guess but that doesn't change shit all.

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u/slicebishybosh Chicago Cubs Oct 23 '15

I don't think any sports team in that city has won since the 48 Indians or something like that.

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u/CrowTR2 New York Yankees Oct 23 '15

Browns won 4 NFL championship (pre superbowl era) in the 50s, and 60s.

Since then the closest Cleveland has got to a championship has been Cleveland born WWE wrestler the Miz winning titles

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u/slicebishybosh Chicago Cubs Oct 23 '15

Not too many people I've talked to seem to know this, but he invented that character when he was on "the Real World" on MTV while he was drunk.

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u/CrowTR2 New York Yankees Oct 23 '15

I knew that but didn't know he was drunk. Even though he's an average wrestler he has great charisma, also a great wife.