Most frustrating years for your team as a fan

Illustrious Potentate

Illustrious Potentate

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2011- In hindsight the collapse was predictable with the rotation we were forced to roll out in September, but it was still a major collapse

2014- On paper this should have been a better team than the division winning 2013 team, but the offense just fell off. Lead the division until late July before falling apart in August and September, which caused us to start the rebuild a little later than we probably should have.

2017- The second half of 2016 gave us a lot of false hope, and we fought the entire first half to get to .500, then swept the Diamondbacks the first series after the ASB to get there and we were well in the fight for a WC spot, then the Cubs swept us the very next series and we fell off the map.

2021- If things don't turn around, this will probably top them all, because preseason expectations haven't been higher since the big 3 was in their primes.
 
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2000-01. pretty disappointing seasons after the Sox made the playoffs in 98-99, though they were also without Nomar for almost all of 2001 and Pedro missed about half a season's worth of starts. Maybe you could lump the 2002 squad in there as well, solely because going 93-69 and still missing the playoffs by 6 games is pretty annoying IMO.

2006 Red Sox - played well in the first half (53-33, +73 runs), but fell apart in the 2nd half (33-43, -78 runs) and had a horrific August (9-21) that included a 5-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees. A pretty crappy season after the fun of the 2002-05 teams.

2011 Red Sox - played magnificent baseball for 3/4 of the season (going 81-42 from April 16 to August 31) but absolutely SUCKED in the games before and after that stretch, missing the playoffs on the final day of the season. Outstanding seasons from Ellsbury, Pedroia, Gonzalez and Beckett gone to waste.

2012 Red Sox - ahahahhaahahaha

2019 Red Sox - I thought about putting the 2020 Sox in here. That team absolutely sucked, but at least you could kind of point to 60 game COVID randomness. But to go from 108-54 and winning the WS to going merely 84-78 and missing the playoffs is awfully disappointing if you ask me. While the pitching wasn't a total disaster (7th in AL in ERA, 104 ERA+, 19.8 WAR), it still took a noticeable step back from the performance of the 2018 squad (3rd in ERA, 118 ERA+, 28.8 WAR). What also sucks is that this team had a damn good lineup.
 
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Illustrious Potentate said:
Braves:

2011- In hindsight the collapse was predictable with the rotation we were forced to roll out in September, but it was still a major collapse

2014- On paper this should have been a better team than the division winning 2013 team, but the offense just fell off. Lead the division until late July before falling apart in August and September, which caused us to start the rebuild a little later than we probably should have.

2017- The second half of 2016 gave us a lot of false hope, and we fought the entire first half to get to .500, then swept the Diamondbacks the first series after the ASB to get there and we were well in the fight for a WC spot, then the Cubs swept us the very next series and we fell off the map.

2021- If things don't turn around, this will probably top them all, because preseason expectations haven't been higher since the big 3 was in their primes.
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Fuck, don't stop there. The Braves are the most underachieving MLB team of all time. Those Bobby Cox teams ran through the regular season like a lawnmower only to shit the bed in the playoffs year after year.

What an absolute waste of the best pitching staff of all time.
 
Wingsauce7 said:
Fuck, don't stop there. The Braves are the most underachieving MLB team of all time. Those Bobby Cox teams ran through the regular season like a lawnmower only to shit the bed in the playoffs year after year.

What an absolute waste of the best pitching staff of all time.
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I was born with in 91. Tom Glavine was a Met when I really started watching. Hard to be disappointed when you don’t remember the seasons.
 
But to actually answer 2016. Team willingly tore down a 98 win team, replaced guys they got rid of in salary dumps/free agents they didn't even try to retain with spare parts and those big time prospects who were supposed to come up that year floundered. They broke Glasnow so bad his only value when they traded him was hoping someone else would take him and try to fix him.

As many wins as they had in 2015 that will always have some frustration as well. I will die on the hill that if the Pirates beat Arrieta they're in the World Series that year and could've avoided him altogether if they didn't struggle with the at the time lowly Brewers and Reds.
 
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Well your rents were disappointed.
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Maybe, but they were old enough to enjoy the World Series win, and NASCAR and college football were kings in my childhood home. Dale Earnhardt and Jim Donnan were the most talked about sports figures
 
steelerssb said:
But to actually answer 2016. Team willingly tore down a 98 win team, replaced guys they got rid of in salary dumps/free agents they didn't even try to retain with spare parts and those big time prospects who were supposed to come up that year floundered. They broke Glasnow so bad his only value when they traded him was hoping someone else would take him and try to fix him.

As many wins as they had in 2015 that will always have some frustration as well. I will die on the hill that if the Pirates beat Arrieta they're in the World Series that year and could've avoided him altogether if they didn't struggle with the at the time lowly Brewers and Reds.
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As much as I bitch about the Braves ownership and front office(a lot of the bitching is warranted), what the Pirates top brass does is criminal. I’m a pretty loyal fan, sticking with the chokiest teams out there in all sports, but I wouldn’t blame Pirates fans at all if they jumped ship.
 
RubinRock said:
2021 looks like a pretty easy answer here. Nothing worse than a shitty pen. Can't enjoy even winning
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There’s nothing worse than a bad bullpen. Offense and rotation has underperformed too. I’m gonna wait until it’s official to crown it, but if this is what it’s gonna be like the whole season, 2021 will be easily the most frustrating Braves season of my lifetime
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
As much as I bitch about the Braves ownership and front office(a lot of the bitching is warranted), what the Pirates top brass does is criminal. I’m a pretty loyal fan, sticking with the chokiest teams out there in all sports, but I wouldn’t blame Pirates fans at all if they jumped ship.
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When I was a teenager I tried a few times (and that was before they even had a winning record). Not that I'd want to now but I know even then it was impossible. I might get apathetic towards the end of a bad year but being a fan of this team is just something that's always going to stick for better or worse.
 
steelerssb said:
When I was a teenager I tried a few times (and that was before they even had a winning record). Not that I'd want to now but I know even then it was impossible. I might get apathetic towards the end of a bad year but being a fan of this team is just something that's always going to stick for better or worse.
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I'm the same way, except my teams are generally pretty good most of the time, they just rip your heart out come money time, but I've always been there and always will be. NASCAR and F1 has been pretty good to me at least. I've seen my favorite NASCAR drivers win a lot of races and a lot of championships, and Lewis Hamilton in F1 has made me a small fortune the last few years because at this point he's like betting on Mayweather because he wins every race, don't know a whole lot about him, but I love him and my bookie hates him.
 
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