Mr. Sinister Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Awful. So awful Can't even win with God (blessing of the bats) and Max Scherzer on your side. I cant even, so I won't even... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakinaiken Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 "Curse" implies some wrongdoing: Did DC sports incite anything to elicit this drought? is it Jim Zorn's slip n' slide exercise during training camp? The swinging gate debacle? Can I blame it on Gilbert Arenas? On RG3? On clown questions? What triggered the curse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, shakinaiken said: "Curse" implies some wrongdoing: Did DC sports incite anything to elicit this drought? is it Jim Zorn's slip n' slide exercise during training camp? The swinging gate debacle? Can I blame it on Gilbert Arenas? On RG3? On clown questions? What triggered the curse I blame UnWise Mike, its his fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoAli Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Beg your pardon Sir, but..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max21 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, maxspruill21 said: Beg your pardon Sir, but.... Same argument as hockey. If D.C. United or the Caps win and 70% of people that follow and care about sports don't care and stil feel cursed, what difference does it make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoAli Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 2014 http://www.washingtonkastles.com/ No Curse in DC....just playoff suckitude for 3 of the top 4 local teams. At least the Wiz have won a first round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Bro.... nobody gives a flying **** about any of those teams the ****ing United??? Seriously??? They haven't even won the **** ass MLS since Bush was in office. And about 3 ppl cared then and 2 care now this isn't the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 If this was just the Nats I’d go back to their inexplicable decision to finally let Teddy win a day or two before the playoffs started in 2012. That’s just tempting the baseball gods to retaliate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperFi Skins Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 At this point, I wish we had a badminton team or maybe a curling team or some ****..... hell, i'd buy a freaking jersey of anything in DC that wins a championship... but no, not soccer. I just can't do soccer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I mean the MLS is **** soccer where washed up former EPL players dominate and collect fat checks it's the equivalent of winning a damn beer league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain James Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 As someone else posted....awful. Just awful. Hot offense most of the regular season: ice cold in the playoffs Insane pitching for the first 4 games of the series: lose game 5 after giving up 9 runs. What. The. Heck. #DCSportsCurse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin'emAlive Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Washington Kastles? What the **** is that? You got enough free time between the big 4 to say," ****, I got nothing better going on, I'll watch the 4 titles in 5 years- white Kastles to prove the curse don't exist." Man, I don't even know what sport that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Honestly, if you are this invested in the Nats you are a masochist at this point. You know what they want to do to you. Let that pain go fellas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max21 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Lol the D.C. Divas. That gave me a good laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Part of me wishes this was part of some elaborate betting scheme between the four teams just so I could have some reasoning behind it and I could just leave it all behind but I know that isn't true so no closure for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I don't get it. I just don't get it. NOTHING in this town works. When we have the heavy favorite #1 team, we lose. When we have the underdog out of nowhere, we lose. When we have a hot offense, we lose. When we have a shutdown defense, we lose. We hire coaches with championship pedigree, no dice. We sign players of MVP caliber, no dice. We get the #1 overall pick in 3/4 sports(and trade up for #2 in the other), no dice. I'm not angry. I'm not sad. I'm more confused. Everytime one of our team bows out like this, I get more confused. At some point, pure probability kicks in and you win just by sheer force of luck. I'm not even talking championship, just getting to a league's final four. And each time one of the team fails, it adds more pressure to the others. This is an undeniable fact at this point. If the Caps beat the Penguins and won the Cup, the Nats would have swept the Cubs. Its a domino affect. Look at Boston. They didn't win jack for years. All of a sudden they get Tom Brady and the Pats win. Three years later, the Sox break through. Four years after that, the Celtics. Three years after that, the Bruins. The incredible thing is, its not even that we lose but HOW we lose. The Caps and Nats have made losing these games into a damn near artform at this point. I don't really put the Redskins in that category, they've largely been bad in recent years and their playoff births are just hot streaks where they barely get in. The Wizards losses have all been as the underdogs so they're kind of the exception, but even then they blew a couple playoff games in Boston in the conf. semis this past year. This past year I didn't watch a single Caps regular season game because it simply didn't matter until the playoffs. I will adopt the same tactic with the Nats now. Maybe Wizards too. Nothing that happens in the regular season means anything to me in any of these sports. Absolutely nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 via @Monk4thaHALL Strike 3. Inning over if correct rule enforced. But, nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just654 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 29 minutes ago, Warhead36 said: And each time one of the team fails, it adds more pressure to the others. This is an undeniable fact at this point. If the Caps beat the Penguins and won the Cup, the Nats would have swept the Cubs. Its a domino affect. Look at Boston. They didn't win jack for years. All of a sudden they get Tom Brady and the Pats win. Three years later, the Sox break through. Four years after that, the Celtics. Three years after that, the Bruins. I have been saying this for years. Once 1 team does it. We will be title town. 1 team had to overcome the pressure to win it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 21 minutes ago, Warhead36 said: This past year I didn't watch a single Caps regular season game because it simply didn't matter until the playoffs. I will adopt the same tactic with the Nats now. Maybe Wizards too. Nothing that happens in the regular season means anything to me in any of these sports. Absolutely nothing. I have been doing this for a long time. It definitely takes away some of the pain. I forget when I stopped caring about Capitals regular season, probably 2008 or something. Regular season hockey is probably the least important of the four major sports. A team gets hot, a goalie, whatever you wanna call it in the playoffs and they can win the Stanley Cup. Seeding doesn't matter. Baseball season is so incredibly long, they need to reduce the amount of games to 140 or something. You play 162 games just to get to the playoffs and play a 5 game series? Make the divisional round a 7 game series. Why play that many games just to get cheap if you will. I still watch during the season because I like to see how the team develops but even that is starting to get old. NBA is similar to NHL, I just happen to play basketball and enjoy seeing the game played so I will tune in more often. NFL is the only sport I watch consistently for obvious reasons. Every game is critical and the season is much shorter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Warhead36 said: gue's final four. And each time one of the team fails, it adds more pressure to the others. This is an undeniable fact at this point. If the Caps beat the Penguins and won the Cup, the Nats would have swept the Cubs. Its a domino affect. Look at Boston. They didn't win jack for years. All of a sudden they get Tom Brady and the Pats win. Three years later, the Sox break through. Four years after that, the Celtics. Three years after that, the Bruins. 1 This right here. The tension, the "feeling" carries over from big game to big game. Once things go bad, the fog and cloud form quickly. In other towns, when our teams have to play these games on the road, they don't have the fear in the atmosphere that our stadiums do. So Rangers fans in game 7 '15 didn't get down when it was 1-0 Caps early. Celtics fans weren't down in Game 7 this past May. We damn well know Seahawks fans were never down when the Redskins visited the NW in those playoff games. At this point, I am out of any potential answers. I am as confused as you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 The best chance of us breaking the curse faded away when we went all in on KD2016, and we couldn't even get a meeting with him and he signed with GS. Wall, Beal and Durant would have run circles around the Eastern Conference for the next 5 years. Probably beat any team that came out of the West too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 http://dcsportsdrought.weebly.com/ Interesting website tracking how long its been since one of the teams played in a final 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Approaching 20 years of futility is remarkable. Kind of amazing to think that it's encompassed my sporting experience from the days of being in elementary school, to my late 20s as a working professional. Probably going to be in my 40s and this thread will still be getting bumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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