[bigboydan]

Tonights Minnesota ML game inspired me to create this thread.


I know I have had a few bad beats this year, and I'm sure you guys have too.

What do you guys think the biggest bad beat of the year was in 2006?

[mad]

Hell Dan, you must be a glutton for punishment. Given the prevailing state of affairs re: Bowl games. However my thoughts would go as follows:

1. Is their such a thing as a good one?
2. How long you got?

[imgv94]

Definitely the Giants losing to Tennessee a few weeks ago.. There was no excuse in that one..

[gummo]

I had Minn and the points, but I could imagine how sick I'd be if I took them on the ML. It was a miracle though for those who had Tech teased.

[HAPPY BOY]

Well I thought I got jobbed with SC leading by 6 with 40 secs till half time, But I gotta say the Minn Ml players got fvcked even worst. Still don't feel any better though.

[Ponies101]

Earlier this year I had a Pick-6 ticket going at Santa Anita, was going to pay about 150K. I had won the first 5 races and had 2 horses going in the 6th leg. My two were running first and second with about 100 yards left until the finish line.

And as fate would have it.....

The horse running second clipped heels with the leading horse, causing him to fall down. The second place horse crossed the finish line in first place, but was disquailified for interference. No pick-6 for me

Anyway, that didn't really happen to me, but I read that it really did happen to a horse player once. Worse bad beat story I've ever heard.

[slacker00]

Definitely the Giants losing to Tennessee a few weeks ago.. There was no excuse in that one..

Pretty much any Titans win this season put the hurt on me.

The NBA Finals seeing Miami come back down 0-2 hurt me as well. I refuse to watch NBA anymore because of it. Jordan got a lot of "touch fouls" in his heyday. Wade got calls where he wasn't even touched. It wouldn't bother me, except even Jordan didn't get that kind of respect, especially this early in his career. Just proves that the NBA is a joke.

[BuddyBear]

I've been on the right side of most of these bad beats I have to say since I don't bet ML just spreads and more less underdogs...but one that does stick out is Pacific vs. Boston College in the NCAAB tournmanent last March. I had Pacific I think +9 or something and it went to OT and they lost by like 14....also in that tournamnet, UNCW +3 blowing a 20+ lead with 12 minutes to go and lost by 3 in OT...but that was a push.

[bigboydan]

I had Pacific as well in that game double B.

Why just a couple of weeks ago I really had a bad beat with the Charlotte Bobcats ML when the Knicks beat them on a double OT tip in with .01 of a second left. What sickens me really bad about this loss was I had a 19 point lead in the game.

[DrSlamm]

Hawaii scoring a defensive touchdown up by 80 with 20 seconds left to ruin my Under.

[jjgold]

Every day there are bad beats but those also turn into good beats and everything evens off in the long run.

[rob]

Playing big dogs in hoops, only to lose in OT, are definitely among my worst beats.
About 25 years ago I was booking basketball.
I lived in a small town outside of a metro area that had a local "mom and pop" phone carrier. They didn't have call waiting so I had a second phone line installed. Obviously, there were no cell phones then.
I had a profitable business going (about 50 bettors), but I didn't have a huge bankroll then and had to lay off a lot of my action in hoops.
On a particularly heavy Saturday afternoon, I finally took both phones off the hook about 2 minutes before a bunch of games were about to go off just to see where I was standing and how much action I'd have to pass.
When I went to make a call to lay this stuff off, there was no dial tone. I was stuck with everything I was holding.
About 10 minutes later my phones were back on and I called the local phone company to ask why my phones hadn't been working.
"We had a call from someone who was trying to call you and they were wondering why both of your phones were busy," they said. "So we had to temporarily halt operation on your lines to determine what the problem was."
It turned out to be a pain-in-the-ass $10 player (who I'd previously asked a number of times not call at game time) who had called the phone company since he couldn't get through.
Naturally, all the action I wanted to pass won.
I lost about 10K that day. I paid everyone, but soon after that I could no longer afford to book games and got out of the business...which only God knows how much that cost me.

[Willie Bee]

From baseball I'll nominate the folks who had the Padres against the Dodgers on Sep 18. From a recent Jayson Stark column comes this description of the way that one ended...

STRANGE BUT TRUE FEAT OF THE YEAR, CENTURY AND MILLENNIUM: Finally, if you needed convincing that literally anything is possible in baseball, we refer you to the astounding finish of the Dodgers' Sept. 18 game with San Diego. They entered the bottom of the ninth trailing by four runs. And then …

The same team that was last in the league in home runs (the Dodgers) hit four ninth-inning home runs in a row to tie the game.

And did it in a span of seven pitches.

And hit them off two pitchers (Jon Adkins and Trevor Hoffman) who had given up three homers all season to the previous 432 hitters they'd faced, in a combined 108 appearances.

And then, after falling behind in the top of the 10th, the same team hit another homer in the 10th to turn a loss into a win.

If Hollywood slapped that on the big screen, you'd laugh. But this happened in actual life, in the greatest sport on earth.

"It might be the most amazing thing that ever happened in sports," Dodgers coach Rich Donnelly told our Strange But True bureau. "It's like the Stanford band thing -- without the trombones."

[bigboydan]

I didn't have this game thank god, but I sure do remember it. If memory serves me correctly Ganchrow was burnt by this game in some type of fashion.

That was the first time I've ever seen something like that happen in my life, and I doubt we will ever see it again in our lifetimes.

[hanco21]

I think alot of people has a bad beat last night in the Fiesta Bowl.