Sports WTFs

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Sometimes theres things you just don't understand.

 

1925 New York Yankees - WTF

 

A roster with Ruth, Gehrig, Earle Combs, Bob Meusel and Wally Pipp amongst others - with Urban Shocker and Herb Pennock in the bullpen and they only won 69 games.

 

Its like this island of ugly within a sea of AL Championships.

 

Go ahead and post your own WTF, or try and help someone understand their own WTF.

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Urban Shocker

Isn't that when you stick three fingers in a black girl?

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Sometimes theres things you just don't understand.

 

1925 New York Yankees - WTF

 

A roster with Ruth, Gehrig, Earle Combs, Bob Meusel and Wally Pipp amongst others - with Urban Shocker and Herb Pennock in the bullpen and they only won 69 games.

 

Its like this island of ugly within a sea of AL Championships.

 

Go ahead and post your own WTF, or try and help someone understand their own WTF.

Babe Ruth missed half the season with a mysterious stomach ailment. Some speculate is might have been venerial disease, but whatever the cause, it was essentially Ruth's lost season. The lineup did feature a few strong hitters, but also featured four very bad hitters in Benny Bengough, Aaron Ward, Joe Dugan and Pee-Wee Wanniger.

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Roy Jones Jr's Silver in Seoul.

[CanadianChris 0]

Roy Jones Jr's Silver in Seoul.

Hometown bonus from the judges. The guy who won the gold was Korean.

 

For the life of me, I will ever figure out how John Daly has won two majors.

[C Dubya 04 0]

Roy Jones Jr's Silver in Seoul.

I think that Jones was eventually awarded the gold wasn't he? That was some bullshit though. I still remember watching that.

 

 

Also from the Olympics you'd have to throw in the refs giving the Soviets three chances to beat the US in the gold medal game.

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WTF was Calgary's GM thinking when he traded Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun and 3 others for Gary Leeman and a bag of used pucks in 1992?

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While watching the Boston Celtics Dynasty DVD collection last night, WTF were the Chicago Bulls doing in the playoffs in 1981? I had never heard they made the playoffs between 1976 and 1984.

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The Marlins have won 2 WS already.

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Clippers being able to make a profit with a losing team.

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The Yanks collapsing after a 3-0 ALCS start. Nobody EVER saw that coming.

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Mark Cuban not resigning Steve Nash and not trading Dirk (and parts) for Shaq.

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WTF was Calgary's GM thinking when he traded Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun and 3 others for Gary Leeman and a bag of used pucks in 1992?

A pick who turned out to be Forsberg, Simon, Duchesne, Hextall and 15 million for Lindros?

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The Yanks collapsing after a 3-0 ALCS start. Nobody EVER saw that coming.

I don't remember who but there was someone in the thread for that series that called it after game 3 that Boston would win the series still. So while most people didn't see it coming, somebody at least did.

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The Yanks collapsing after a 3-0 ALCS start. Nobody EVER saw that coming.

Someone on the board did.

 

Fucked if I can remember who it was though.

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Mark Cuban not resigning Steve Nash and not trading Dirk (and parts) for Shaq.

I'll give you Nash, but it's not like Dirk had a horrible year, and also, it would've broken my heart to see such a cool guy as himself on a team with Kobe Bryant.

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Swetlana Kuznetsova winning the US Open.

 

Worst Grand Slam champion ever. Even worse than Majoli.

 

And she's hideous. And a total bitch.

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WTF was Calgary's GM thinking when he traded Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun and 3 others for Gary Leeman and a bag of used pucks in 1992?

A pick who turned out to be Forsberg, Simon, Duchesne, Hextall and 15 million for Lindros?

Um...wrong team.

 

A few.

 

WTF was Mario Trembly thinking when Roy was left out to dry.

 

WTF was Montreal on when they give away Roy.

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I was in every single NYY/BOS official SmartMarks Chatroom for the entire series, as well as on that board, and I firmly believed that my hated Yankees would blow up against the Sox team. I thought that team was special since Game 1, where, despite their comeback not ultimately meaning anything, they played more like they wanted it.

 

Fuck the Yankees! Excellent record this year.

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The Portland Trailblazers, in general, have just been one WTF moment after another for about the last half-decade now.

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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06080PHI1989.htm

 

The Phillies give up a ten spot to the Pirates in the first inning, and come back to win. Steve Jeltz, with a career total of two home runs in 1,452 at bats, homers from both sides of the plate.

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The Marlins have won 2 WS already.

(See also in the WTF Dictionary "The '97 Indians choke in the 9th of Game 7 of the World Series")

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

WTF was Calgary's GM thinking when he traded Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun and 3 others for Gary Leeman and a bag of used pucks in 1992?

A pick who turned out to be Forsberg, Simon, Duchesne, Hextall and 15 million for Lindros?

Um...wrong team.

 

A few.

 

WTF was Mario Trembly thinking when Roy was left out to dry.

 

WTF was Montreal on when they give away Roy.

I know all the players I mentioned didn't play for Calgary. It was also a WTF trade on par with Calgary and Toronto in 1992.

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WTF was Montreal on when they give away Roy.

I understand that the Habs had to trade Roy, but I agree, why trade him for next to nothing, especially to the former-Nordiques? There are so many other teams that they could have traded him to, gotten as good of a package and also had it come back to haunt them less.

 

rb51, I know you're a Habs fan, so you might know: what was his salary like at the time? Could one of the other CDN teams have afforded him? I figure they had to send him to the Western Conf to avoid having to play him half a dozen times a year, but could Edmonton or Vancouver or Calgary have afforded him?

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I'd put the entire Knicks organization in the WTF category...

 

Drew Bledsoe's performance against the Steelers 2nd and 3rd stringers last season...

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Montreal would never traded Roy to the Leafs. It would be on the level of Richard going to play there.

 

Vancouver would be the only team I can think of that would have grabbed Roy from a Canadian stand point, but they wouldn't be able to keep him long because of poor financing the year after.

 

Roy had to go to a western conference team because the Habs had too man rivalries in the East.

 

I for one, had no problem with him going to the Avs, but C'mon. I'd been happy if it was Fiset, Ruicinsky, Ricci and say two draft picks.

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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B08050CLE2001.htm

 

I still don't get how a team that won 116 games and set an American League record for wins blows a 14-2 lead going into the 7th inning.

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I remember this Henry Akinwande vs. Michael Grant fight from the early-mid 90's, where both men were touted as hot up and coming heavyweights. Both of them were huge and and had knockout power, so I'm expecting these two monstrous bastards to pound on each other. The brain surgeon in charge of selecting a ring size picked one of the SMALLEST regulation rings available, and they agreed to it. I'm not sure how those things work exactly, but it was like two elephants fighting in a phone booth. Poor Mills Lane was stuck reffing this slugfest turned stinker, and I believe finally called the fight for Grant because Akinwande was holding so much. I was befuddled as to why they were fighting in a ring where they couldn't get more than 5 or 6 steps in a given direction, given their height.

 

Now, while both guys ended up being total busts, I think this fight with each other was a catalyst in their downfall. The fight was so boring that Larry Merchant, totally out of the blue, said something to the effect of the match looking like an Oreo Cookie, due to all the clinching. Everyone else on commentary just kind of sat there in silence for ten seconds while Howard Cosell's ashes all farted in unison.

 

I don't remember seeing either man in a high profile fight after that, actually.

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I remember this Henry Akinwande vs. Michael Grant fight from the early-mid 90's, where both men were touted as hot up and coming heavyweights. Both of them were huge and and had knockout power, so I'm expecting these two monstrous bastards to pound on each other. The brain surgeon in charge of selecting a ring size picked one of the SMALLEST regulation rings available, and they agreed to it. I'm not sure how those things work exactly, but it was like two elephants fighting in a phone booth. Poor Mills Lane was stuck reffing this slugfest turned stinker, and I believe finally called the fight for Grant because Akinwande was holding so much. I was befuddled as to why they were fighting in a ring where they couldn't get more than 5 or 6 steps in a given direction, given their height.

 

Now, while both guys ended up being total busts, I think this fight with each other was a catalyst in their downfall. The fight was so boring that Larry Merchant, totally out of the blue, said something to the effect of the match looking like an Oreo Cookie, due to all the clinching. Everyone else on commentary just kind of sat there in silence for ten seconds while Howard Cosell's ashes all farted in unison.

 

I don't remember seeing either man in a high profile fight after that, actually.

Wasn't that the Lewis/Akinwande fight? Akinwande never fought Michael Grant.

 

And if you think that's bad, apparently Akinwande is still fighting, and scheduled to face a 7' Russian named Nicolay Valuev in July. I've heard of Valuev many years ago in the last 90s, but he has yet to face a name opponent, and is now 40-0.

 

As for a boxer, how about Shane Mosley? He looked like a possible great before losing twice to both Vernon Forrest and Winky Wright.

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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B08050CLE2001.htm

 

I still don't get how a team that won 116 games and set an American League record for wins blows a 14-2 lead going into the 7th inning.

The pitching blew up, and by the time it was close, the Mariners had already taken Ichiro, Olerud and Edgar Martinez out of the game.