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Oh, cool! I feel so free now!

I mentioned on here that the day Dale Earnhardt died was one of my worst ever sports days, because it was a totally different, very real sense of sadness. This past Sunday felt VERY similar, and I’m not even a Kobe fan. This kinda stuff just makes you realize how meaningless all of this sports stuff is in the long run, and how depressingly senseless life can be sometimes.

Yall just got awarded an MLS team, isn’t that enough for you?!?!... ... ... ............ what?

Bucfan/Red Wolf 2020: Make Baseball Teams Move Again

Hmm, that’s weird. I didn’t know Sacramento had a Coliseum Complex. Also, they can’t get rid of the Marlins. What would Billy Gil do then?

November 1st, 2010: Giants beat the Rangers 3-1 to clinch their very first World Series in San Francisco. January 26th, 2003: Bucs beat the Raiders like they stole something in Super Bowl XXXVII. June 16th, 2015: Warriors win their first title since the 1970s and end four decades of futility. The five years since have been absolutely CRAZY (or absolutely infuriating, depending on who you ask), but that first one was so great. And people didn’t completely hate the Warriors just yet! None of these come even close to the best day I’ve ever had as a sports fan, though. October 21st, 2019: Sacramento Republic FC is FINALLY awarded their MLS expansion bid. After all the frustration we went through along the way, and all of the hard work we all put in over the course of the past half decade plus, we finally made it. Hard to top that feeling. I’m sure the first game in 2022 is going to be awesome, but it’ll take a lot to top October 21st, 2019.

Man, that's a whole lotta words to have such a bad take.

This whole thing is a grift, y'all.

That whole year sucked. West Virginia vs Missouri would’ve been awesome, and then they both totally face planted and we ended up with the most boring national title game I can ever remember.

Anyone else having issues on mobile with the page randomly jumping around with no prompts? I’m pretty sure I just unintentionally reported a post while trying to like the post above

Not sure if this one really counts within the spirit of this thread, but Caleb Moore's injury which led to his death at the 2013 Winter X Games is probably one of the most brutal things I've ever seen live. The fact that he was able to get up on his own accord and walk away from it makes the whole thing even more surreal.

You can see from the International Space Station just how Chinese AF that cap is

I mean, I sort of get it with Flathead Lake being so close by, and you can never have too many Moose (Mooses? Meese? Moosen?) as sports logos, but, it's just... Ehh. The name is still kinda lame.

Deadspin was great because I discovered it about the same time I started having a bit of an existential crisis (if you will) about my own sports fandom. The older I get and the more I get into the real, working world, the more I look at pro sports and think to myself, what is this really adding to my existence? There was a stretch for YEARS where my sports fandom basically defined who I was (At least, I thought it did), and it wasn't until I saw "my teams" win titles where I truly realized it wasn't going to fundamentally change a single thing about my life other than draining my already limited funds on cheesy, ill fitting championship merchandise I'll never wear. Maybe it's kind of pathetic to admit that pro sports really had such a huge hold over my self-worth well into my 20's, but I got to the point where I felt pretty lost and sort of embarrassed that I had essentially "wasted" so much of my time putting my energy and emotion into something that not only didn't give a single :censored: about me, but didn't even know I existed. Deadspin was one of those outlets that kind of put that all into perspective for me and helped me to discover that I wasn't alone in feeling like that. I'm not going overboard and saying that "Ohh Deadspin changed my life!" or anything, but in a way it sort of did. It opened me up to some of the things that were problematic about being such a loyal sports fan, and exposed a lot of the warts within the entire culture that just maybe weren't the most healthy outlets. I used to always say that "Oh, sports are just entertainment and I'll never let it effect me so personally", but that was me just lying to myself. Sites like Barstool really do try and put up that façade that your passion is all that matters and questioning anything about it is stupid. Deadspin was one of those sites that (While I understand their own flaws) sort of forced you to do a bit of self evaluation when it came to how you look at and consume sports. Personally, I feel like I'm better off for having an outlet like that, and while I understand how it had gone off the rails a bit, I'm sad to see it going away.

I didn’t mention that one because pretty much the Sharks very existence has ended up being the worst day of my life. That series doesn’t really register with be because that one basically broke the hockey part of my brain.

2002 World Series game 6: 8 outs from their first title in San Francisco, up (I think) by 8 at one point, and Dusty Baker has to put in Felix :censored:ing Rodriguez. The even year BS run this decade has eased a lot of that pain, but I’ll hate those two forever. 2016 USL playoffs first round: Sac Republic won the west and had so much promise coming in as the #1 seed. Then they play a scoreless draw to 8th seeded Orange County Blues and lose in the shootout. Boom, that’s it. Season over. 2001 Daytona 500: I’e barely watched a single second of NASCAR since Dale Sr tragically smacked into that wall, and what I have watched has never been at all comfortable. There’s just something about knowing that your heroes can legitimately die while doing their sport that I can’t come to terms with. That’s not how any of this is supposed to be. It adds a level of gravity and realness that’s too much for me to handle. It brings me a level of anxiety that I don’t want at all.

In San Francisco, of all places! The logistics were a bit different back then, but not by that much.

No, you’re right, and I get that. It's not just as simple as opening up a wallet and digging in some pockets. But the A's have been run like one of those old Chinatown eateries where the floor is about to fall in and kill everyone because the owners are 97 years old, blind, work 7 days a week, and can barely afford to keep the lights on. That's a sign that the ownership group is in WAY over their heads, are greedy to the point where they don't mind risking the well-being of the public, or (gulp) both. Something has to give. I'm just hoping it isn't the upper deck onto a group of unsuspecting fans.

This is the age old line they always use. I wonder if it's true that they really can't pay for it themselves (In which case, they shouldn't be allowed to own a Major League Baseball team) or they're just trying to cry poor and make it look to the public like they can't pay for it themselves (In which case they REALLY shouldn't be allowed to own a Major League Baseball team). I've never really understood why the A's have always seemingly had such impoverished ownership groups. You would think with all the money in the Bay Area that you'd be able to find at least ONE extremely rich billionaire who could buy the team and foot this whole thing themselves (or at least have the tangible ability to). , just look at Lacob and Gruber. They added BILLIONS to the value of the Warriors and just got them a new arena right in the middle of San Francisco, which is a damn near impossible task. You're really telling me they (or someone with similar financial clout) couldn't do the same thing with the A's? I don't believe it.

Sir, this is an Arby's.

I'd have to check the calculations.

Yeah science, bitch.

Huh. My calculations are just a tad off somewhere, then. I had Branson, Missouri as my worst city.

Ok, Dr. Phil.

1). Only when dealing with you, my friend 2). I'm, literally, from Nevada. I say this from a lifetime of dealing with the fallout that city has created 3). I'm more of a Dominion guy, myself. 4). You do realize this is, like, 75% in jest, right?