Most disappointing Sox team

[fathom]

2006...that was a great, exciting team up until Iguchi's game winning single heading into the ASB.

[caulfield12]

Was that the crazy extra innings game against Boston where we got to Papelbon big-time?

 

I guess that will go down as the high water mark for KW and the current regime....and hopefully yesterday as the low. But check back in 2 weeks after our trip's over. We might be no hit 2-3 more times.

 

Or go on a 9-3 run and convince a few we might be able to get back into it like last year. Just don't see it happening twice.

[flavum]

Too early to call this a disappointing season. I'll wait to the all-star break to declare them dead if they're 10 out.

 

I'll go with 1994.

[witesoxfan]

2006...that was a great, exciting team up until Iguchi's game winning single heading into the ASB.

 

The 3 games from 06 I can think of that I have very unfond memories for

 

1) The Iguchi 3-run and then game tying grand slam that they ended up losing to Houston. They'd beaten Houston 6 straight and losing that game where they looked invincible hurt, even if it was a monumental comeback.

2) The Buehrle Cubs game that I referenced above.

3) A Javy start against the Twins...I'm thinking it was in June, because my dad and I were going to Wal-Mart for something down at USD and it was at night, and the Sox had a comfortable lead in the 6th. I told my dad about Javy's 6th inning blowups, we went into Wal-Mart, and came back out just in time to hear Torii Hunter (I think) go yard off of Riske, and it was like Riske's first or second game with the Sox. Javy had gotten into the trouble in the first place.

 

 

[elrockinMT]

I think the poll assumes we woud have won seasons marked as disappointing. The '67 and '77 teasm competed to the end basically with far less talent then other teams. Can't blame the '94 yeam for a strike. Sure they were disappointing years but for other reasons

[caulfield12]

I don't know why for me:

 

Javy blowing a huge lead against the Blue Jays, I think up there. I just remember it so well because I was staying at a hostel near Machu Picchu and I couldn't believe I was wasting my time with Javy.

 

Craig Monroe hitting homers off Aardsma and Javy, the latter on ESPN.

 

The Red Sox series before the break.

 

Absolutely trouncing the Cardinals.

 

There was a 2 week period in August when Jenks was hurting and we were averaging about 2 runs scored per game, not unlike our current funk.

 

The most significant game to me, Jose losing his winning streak and getting injured against the Reds on the road. That was the beginning of the end.

 

Numerous losses to the Twins' buzzsaw down the stretch.

[Jordan4life_2007]

Not including incomplete seasons, otherwise this would easily be '94 for me, 2006 was unquestionably the most disappointing. All the momentum from '05. A seemingly better roster than '05. A dominating start in which the offense bludgeoned teams to death and had us 57-30 at the break. That was our year to really just take over the city and truly put ourselves among the truly elite organizations in sports. Not just baseball. It didn't have to be another title. Though that would've been nice. Another deep playoff run and we're in that rarefied air. But the second half came. Pitching fell apart, offense fell off, Ozzie couldn't do a thing about it, KW didn't upgrade and the rest is pretty much history.

[Buehrle>Wood]

Shocked no votes for 2003. That team was absolutely stacked. Absolute murderer's row of a line-up with Thomas, Konerko, Ordonez, Lee and Everett. Starting pitching was Loaiza in his near Cy Young year to go along with Colon, Mark, and Garland. That roster should have been winning the World Series. Instead they won 86 games and lost out to a pretty awful Twins team. Konerko was just dreadful that year and we had no semblance of a 5 starter. Those were our downfalls.

Edited May 4, 2011 by Buehrle>Wood

[fathom]

Shocked no votes for 2003. That team was absolutely stacked. Absolute murderer's row of a line-up with Thomas, Konerko, Ordonez, Lee and Everett. Starting pitching was Loaiza in his near Cy Young year to go along with Colon, Mark, and Garland. That roster should have been winning the World Series. Instead they won 86 games and lost out to a pretty awful Twins team. Konerko was just dreadful that year and we had no semblance of a 5 starter. Those were our downfalls.

 

Nicely done, but a year in which we have a pitcher set the prestigious Mexican strikeout record can't be considered disappointing.

Edited May 4, 2011 by fathom

[LittleHurt05]

I voted for 2006.

 

2011 will probably be more disappointing, but I can't vote for it yet. It's still only May 4, and there are still about 130 games left to be played. I don't think they will be successfull, but it is too early for me to call the entire season a disappointment.

[southsider2k5]

For anyone old enough it has to be 1984. That team just collapsed out of no where.

[Texsox]

2011. At this point in time I expected the record to be almost the exact reverse of what it is.

 

 

[maggsmaggs]

2006...that was a great, exciting team up until Iguchi's game winning single heading into the ASB.

That was like a 14-inning game against the Red Sox right? Single down the third base line?

Edited May 4, 2011 by maggsmaggs

[Milkman delivers]

That was like a 14-inning game against the Red Sox right? Single down the third base line?

 

I'm pretty sure it was about 18 innings and on a very hot, sunny day.

[JohnCangelosi]

1994 only because it was the first time in being a fan where I thought it was "their year", and the strike killed me, I didn't watch much baseball for about 4 years.

[WCSox]

For anyone old enough it has to be 1984. That team just collapsed out of no where.

 

Absolutely. Seaver was supposed to get us over the hump. Nobody foresaw Britt Burns flaming out or our reigning Cy Young winner developing a coke habit.

 

[earthshiner]

easily 2006. team dominated first half then looked like a skier tumbling down a mountain int he second half

W L RS RA WP

1st Half 57 31 520 415 .648

2ndHalf 33 41 348 379 .446

 

 

[emoney]

Forgot about the Black Sox. Obviously we weren't alive then, but a scandal like that would be pretty disappointing.

[Andrew]

Off the top of my head, I'd pick '04. The Twins weren't very good and the Sox were pounding like nobody's biz. We even had some pitching.

 

Then, end of the summer...it all ended. And BAD. That was f***ing disappointing. Mags had a thing....gone. Loaiza, traded. Caballo gone. That was a s***ty, s***ty disappointment for a year where the Sox actually got noticed by the Eastern Sports Propaganda Network for kicking ass. The whole bat flip/show up thing was really started in baseball that year...because of us, kicking ass.

 

Also, Mags had a shaved head.

 

I loved that f***ing team, too.

 

We knew Ozzie, but he wasn't a s***ty, douche yet.

 

Anybody who picked 06 is an idiot. That team rocked. 90 Ws, tired SP....Ozzie starting to act up. Performed anyway, with NO starting pitching....

 

2nd worst for me would be the 2000 team.

 

One and done is just...like Twins, behavior.

 

The '08 team is not a disappointment because they were the beginning of the whole "just enough to get by" crap I see now. They sucked. TCQ.... hurt himself on his own bat! TB made us look stupid; I knew they would, that year took 163 to win and we shouldn't have been there anyway. Blackout was cool but we really did suck.

Edited May 5, 2011 by Andrew

[Balta1701]

Anybody who picked 06 is an idiot. That team rocked. 90 Ws, tired SP....Ozzie starting to act up. Performed anyway, with NO starting pitching....

The single most disappointing game I can think of for the Sox in recent memory was in 2006, down the stretch, against the Twins, JD homered off Nathan to tie the game, then they went back into the doldrums and lost in Extras.

[Jordan4life_2007]

The single most disappointing game I can think of for the Sox in recent memory was in 2006, down the stretch, against the Twins, JD homered off Nathan to tie the game, then they went back into the doldrums and lost in Extras.

 

That game is etched into my brain for eternity. It was a Saturday and we lost 9-7. I hate 2006.

[Balta1701]

That game is etched into my brain for eternity. It was a Saturday and we lost 9-7. I hate 2006.

I've got a few others etched into my memory from that year too, that one's just the worst. The game in Baltimore with Contreras on the mound where Mackowiak single-handedly cost 3-4 runs and 2 innings of work for Contreras in CF. The day where Ozzie said "Anderson's my CF" and then 2 days later was on the bench again. The Buehrle 10 run inning.