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PostPosted: July 16 12, 8:52 am 
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What's the biggest Cardinal-related disappointment of your lifetime? Some candidates off the top of my head:

-Getting swept in the 2004 WS after dominating the NL all year

-Losing the 2002 NLCS after rallying around the memory of Darryl Kile

-Choking on a 3 games to 1 lead in the 1996 NLCS

-Losing the tightly contested 2001 NLDS to Arizona

-The poor showing in the 2009 NLDS vs LA

-Losing in 7 games to a team who played in a giant garbage bag in 1987

-Pooping the bed down the stretch in 2003 to allow the Cubs to win the NL Central

-Denkinger

Feel free to add anything that I'm missing.

The 2002 ending was the worst for me because I'd never felt so much like a team was going to win it... and then they didn't. The other times fall under a "stuff happens" category for me.

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I was 12 years old in 1973 when the Cards finished 1.5 games out of first. That was the closest they had been to the playoffs since I had become a fan in 1969, and it broke my heart.

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Game 7 of the '85 WS.

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JL21 wrote:
Losing the 2002 NLCS after rallying around the memory of Darryl Kile


By FAR. God I wanted that team to win so bad.

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I was 12 years old in 1973 when the Cards finished 1.5 games out of first. That was the closest they had been to the playoffs since I had become a fan in 1969, and it broke my heart.


There's almost two categories, because there's nothing like the disappointment you have as a kid. For me that was the 1985 WS. And I'm still bitter about the 1987 WS as well.

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I understand why and I may be in the minority, but for me it is 2004. That team won what, 105 games? I expected more than getting swept out of the World Series. That Boston team was on an epic roll.


(replying to an Illini Amy post in the Kile thread)

That World Series--was an embarassment, but not disappointing per se, at least to me. The Red Sox showed themselves to be a better team (apparently 98 wins in the AL meant more than 105 in the NL), and the better team won. It would have been nice if the boys had put up more of a fight, though.

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I was 7 years old in 1985, which is the perfect, idealistic age for a little boy to love a baseball team. And I loved every player on that team. That was such a fun club for a kid to watch.

So game 6, with the blown call and the collapse, hurt like no other. It was like Watergate for little 'zeus: my faith in all institutions was inherently shaken. The authority figures who determine the outcome of things can be totally stupid and wrong? The good guys can lose? The goldfish didn't really run away from its bowl and go back to a river while I was sleeping? I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE.

And that's why nothing sucked as much as 1985; each disappointment that came after at least made sense and had some context to it. Even by '87, I was a worldly 9 years old and already knew that life sucked.

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Spider John wrote:
I was 12 years old in 1973 when the Cards finished 1.5 games out of first. That was the closest they had been to the playoffs since I had become a fan in 1969, and it broke my heart.



This .....especially 1974 when the Cubs Steve Swisher's passed ball that allowed The prirates to score the winning run in extra innings.

the previous year, 1973...the friggen Mets game out of nowhere to win the NL East on the last day of the year, beating Chciago in the first game of a double header

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I was 3 for the 1985 WS so I don't remember much. But, every time I go to KC, I swear I get heckled about the 1985 Royals >>> the Cardinals. Also, 2004 sucked. Mostly because of how Rolen and Edmonds played.

Ankiel's failure as a pitcher is by far the thing that disappoints me the most. Teams win and lose, sometimes unfairly. But when a single player that has such great physical ability succumbs to mental issues, it is sad.

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I realize by posting this I am going to sound like an idiot...

But the Cards not winning it all in '02 makes me feel as if there is no closure on loosing Kile. I needed that team to win it all...it was more than a loss...it was begging for something to make some sense of Kile dying.


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