Blog Bat Around Topic Revealed

Those brats last night were so good that they took me off to slumberland. Here's the Blog Bat Around update.

Let's face it: Unless you follow a sports team from one of the three or four highest-populated markets in the country, being a sports fan is largely an exercise in humility, disappointment, and disgust. If you're a Lakers fan, you have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you're from the Cleveland area, you're probably experiencing some mid-grade stomach pains right now, punctuated by a dry heave here and there. This newest incarnation of the Blog Bat Around deals with your experiences with this phenomenon.

The question I'm putting to you is this: How have you reacted to one or more specific soul-crushing sports losses?

Brick through the window? Let us know.
Dog kicked into an above-the-waist section of a china hutch? Post it, you won't be judged.
Spasms of rage causing bodily injury to yourself? Share, friend, you are among an understanding brother- and sisterhood.

Go back as far into sports history as you would like, so long as you were a living and conscious observer. The collective fandom is filled with wide rights, phantom third strikes, and obvious fouls that have gone uncalled. Share one or more of these experiences with a sympathetic community. If possible, get as specific as possible with the dates. (I'm thinking of the old Superfans SNL skit where Farley, Wendt, et al were swapping stories of injuries suffered cheering on Da Bears, like "Scalded by the cheese of a flaming hot nacho.") I'd also love to see accompanying card images for any of the key participants in these debacles.

I'm setting the deadline of September 26 to get these to me. Email me the link and I'll assemble the entire post with all the links I get two Saturdays from now. Share this post with your fellow bloggers; I'd like this to be the biggest BBA yet. Have fun, I'm looking forward to commiseration.