Most frustrating years for your team as a fan

navamind said:
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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Oh yeah, not sure how I didn't add 2014 in there. First to worst. Only things worth watching that year were Lester (until he got traded) and Ortiz. Worst Red Sox offense of my lifetime.

2015 was pretty mediocre but the 2nd half provided a lot of optimism for the future.
 
1954-1995 (Indians)

*2007...should have beat Boston in ALCS and would have rolled the Rockies
 
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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Don’t forget 2008. A lot of people were picking us to go to the WS......we fucking sucked
 
Mistaken4193 said:
Don’t forget 2008. A lot of people were picking us to go to the WS......we fucking sucked
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I was a junior in HS. It sucked, but I was looking for ass, pills and booze at that time(still am today, but I’m just at home more often)
 
The Padres in the mid/late 00's consistently were top one, two, three in the league for pitching with the lowest ERA from innings 7 and on in MLB but when it came time, could never get shit done. Horribly inconsistent.
 
navamind said:
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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The most disappointing years for me as a Red Sox fan were the mid to late 70's when they had a power house team and couldn't win the division because of the Evil Empire and running into the Big Red Machine the one time they did make it to the WS :gaah:
 
The 2006 Twins won 96 games, Morneau was MVP, Mauer won the batting title and Santana won the Cy Young and we got swept by Oakland in the Division Series!
 
1999. Season started at the end of my junior yr of high school and ended at the beginning of my senior year, and i went to at least 4 or 5 games that year, both with family and friends. it was such a fun season, as no one really expected much to start the year, but it became clear that they were a pretty good team. Getting Greg Vaughn from the Padres in that trade before the season had to have been one of the better personnel moves in the league that year. Unfortunately, they ended up JUST losing out on the division to the astros, and they tied the mets, so they had to play that damned 1-game playoff against the Mets and Al Leiter, at home no less, and he lit the Reds up that evening, the offense was dead in the water, couldn't hit shit. such a buzzkill way for the season to end.

this would be closely followed by the 2012 Reds...VERY dominant season, and went up 2-0 on the Giants in rd 1 of playoffs with impressive offensive showings (first two games were AT san fran), only to lose 4 straight. barf.
 
2006 and 2012 to go to the World Series and lose hurts ... between 2006 - 2016 we had the team that could win it all. Since then we have had the worst team in MLB and tearing down and building up, this time has actually been fun.
 
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