Top 10 D'OH Moments of the Decade

[Pagal4321]

Funny little article...the NHL video just depresses me though.

http://www.randallsimonssausages.com...of-decade.html

[calgaryrocks]

this years Grey Cup finish should be on here, Riders blew it and will never live that down

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by calgaryrocks

this years Grey Cup finish should be on here, Riders blew it and will never live that down

Yeah, except nobody outside of Canada gives a rat's ass about the Grey Cup.

[calgaryrocks]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Yeah, except nobody outside of Canada gives a rat's ass about the Grey Cup.

while i don't disagree with the sentiment (americans rarely care for anything not american) but there are some that do, it is football and there are former canadians living in the states.
thats not really my point though, i don't know if the writer of the blog is even american, but americans don't really care about soccer or hockey (if we're going to generalize) either but they made the list.
really since it is likely written my an american writer, he should try and cater to north america as a whole...whatever.

[GirlySports]

I think we've debated this before but the Bartman thing is so unfair.
There were about 10 pairs of hands going for that ball. It's an elevated left field stand at Wrigley field and if you're staring up into the sky at the ball there's no way you can see Alou coming. You have every right to catch that ball.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by calgaryrocks

while i don't disagree with the sentiment (americans rarely care for anything not american) but there are some that do, it is football and there are former canadians living in the states.
thats not really my point though, i don't know if the writer of the blog is even american, but americans don't really care about soccer or hockey (if we're going to generalize) either but they made the list.
really since it is likely written my an american writer, he should try and cater to north america as a whole...whatever.

You're contradicting yourself. A story like that is not a "North American" newstory, it's specific to Canada. I don't see you complaining about the lack of content from the Latin American baseball leagues, or the Mexican soccer league. Both of those register higher on the scale for North American sports than the Grey Cup.

EDIT: I would also add that there are no college football or basketball stories on that list, which also register substantially higher than the CFL.

[ricoFlame]

poor bartman...the cubbies did a good enough job of blowing that game without his help.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

I think we've debated this before but the Bartman thing is so unfair.
There were about 10 pairs of hands going for that ball. It's an elevated left field stand at Wrigley field and if you're staring up into the sky at the ball there's no way you can see Alou coming. You have every right to catch that ball.

You sure as hell do NOT have a right to catch that ball. There's a reason that people get ejected for interfering with a ball in play. Once the ball crosses into the seats it's a different story, but when it's still in the field of play you have no right to go after it. Unless it benefits your team of course

On this point, one thing I've never figured out is why a home teams fans seem so willing to get out of the way when their own player fouls one into the first couple of rows. If I'm a hometown fan and a catcher is leaning over the rail to make the catch I'm making damn sure I get a hand on that ball.

I agree that Bartman has been treated unfairly, the degree of scorn thrown at him is unbelievable. Cubs fanatics aren't a stable bunch.

[calgaryrocks]

Originally Posted by rubecube

You're contradicting yourself. A story like that is not a "North American" newstory, it's specific to Canada. I don't see you complaining about the lack of content from the Latin American baseball leagues, or the Mexican soccer league. Both of those register higher on the scale for North American sports than the Grey Cup.

EDIT: I would also add that there are no college football or basketball stories on that list, which also register substantially higher than the CFL.

I say North American in a commercial society sense. American and Canadian societies share many things, like sports, material stuff, language, holidays etc. actually its more canadians copying americans most of the time. anyways my point is that Mexico and latin american countries may be part of North or North and central America geographically but not so much in mainstream society. Canada and the States are tied in many ways.
to illustrate, he could mention mexico with soccer and baseball but, how many mexicans are going to read his column? compare that to how many Canadians will look at his column.
his article is focused on the 'big 4' american sports (thus no college sports). but In Canada we have the 'big 2' of hockey and canadian football (except maybe in Toronto, where they are in love with anything american)
your point is correct about college sports, they could include some there, but c'mon rube, the national championship(the 97th Grey Cup) of Canada's second favourite sport and the team with the biggest fanbase blows it. yet a regular season game between edmonton and dallas makes the list? i guess i am contradicting myself, that is a north american story (though i'm suprised if many americans heard about it). maybe the CFL is specific to Canada, but there are people outside the country that watch it. i guess this article is a good example of americans not paying attention to, wait, he did pay attention to Canada. but how do you miss something that just happened a month ago. he must be a dallas stars fan if he remembers a hockey play in a regular season over that.
hehe /rant

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by valo403

You sure as hell do NOT have a right to catch that ball. There's a reason that people get ejected for interfering with a ball in play. Once the ball crosses into the seats it's a different story, but when it's still in the field of play you have no right to go after it. Unless it benefits your team of course

On this point, one thing I've never figured out is why a home teams fans seem so willing to get out of the way when their own player fouls one into the first couple of rows. If I'm a hometown fan and a catcher is leaning over the rail to make the catch I'm making damn sure I get a hand on that ball.

I agree that Bartman has been treated unfairly, the degree of scorn thrown at him is unbelievable. Cubs fanatics aren't a stable bunch.

Agreed on all counts. But I think that ball was in the stands, it was right at his seat practically along the rail.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Agreed on all counts. But I think that ball was in the stands, it was right at his seat practically along the rail.

It was still in play, he reached out to try to catch it. If it falls it lands in Alou's glove above his head, the player wasn't reaching into the stands at all.

It is somewhat of an understandable reaction, but you really can't do that when it's your lifelong obsession of a sports team trying to make a crucial out. He still doesn't deserve the abuse he's taken, and continues to take.

[SebC]

You'd think the '94 Shell Caribbean Cup's organizing committee's decision to make Golden Goals count double would have to make the list somewhere...

http://www.snopes.com/sports/soccer/barbados.asp

Quick summary of the aftermath of that decision below in white:

Barbados needs to beat Grenada by 2 to go to the finals.
Barbados is up 2.
Grenada scores.
Barbados scores on itself in the 87th minute.
Barbados successfully prevents Grenada from scoring on either goal to send it to extra time.
Barbados gets its golden goal, wins by 2, and goes to the finals.

Other worthy candidates:

Jim Marshall
Japanese hockey player
Saddledome streaker

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by SebC

You'd think the '94 Shell Caribbean Cup's organizing committee's decision to make Golden Goals count double would have to make the list somewhere...

http://www.snopes.com/sports/soccer/barbados.asp

Quick summary of the aftermath of that decision below in white:

Other worthy candidates:

Jim Marshall
Japanese hockey player
Saddledome streaker

Hmmm....I didn't realize 1994 and 1964 were during this decade. I'm no scientist, but I'm guessing you missed the title of the thread.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Hmmm....I didn't realize 1994 and 1964 were during this decade. I'm no scientist, but I'm guessing you missed the title of the thread.

D'oh!