When Was The Last Time You Cried After a Sporting Event?

I was listening to Colin Cowherd yesterday (Sorry, but I was in my car, Rome wasn't on yet, and I don't like the Sacramento and San Francisco morning shows) when he brought up an interesting question? When was the last time you cried after watching a sporting event?

Cowherd brought up this Youtube video of a little girl crying after the Bears lost last Sunday. Cowherd brought up the interesting question of the last time you cried after a sporting event? He talked about the last time he cried and other listeners chimed in when the last time they cried after a sporting event. Interesting question: when was the last time you cried after watching an sporting event?

I can remember exactly the last time I cried. On October 3rd, 1993 the Giants were blown out by the Dodgers and missed the playoffs by one game because of that game. I cried my eyes out after that game because my favorite team missed the playoffs because their hated rival defeated them.

Let's back up though and take you back to that 1993 season. Before the year even began, the Giants almost left for St. Petersburg to become the Tampa Bay Rays Giants. Thankfully that deal was blocked and the Giants were sold to a group of investors that would keep the team in San Francisco and eventually build AT&T Park.


The Giants eventually signed Barry Bonds to play alongside Will Clark and Matt Williams. Bonds hit 46 home runs to go along with 36 home runs from Matt Williams. John Burkett and Bill Swift each won 21 games that year and Rod Beck was the original maniac coming out of the bullpen and saving 48 games. The 93 Giants were a monster of a team that won 103 games that year.

Only one problem though. Back in 1993, baseball still had only two divisions in each league and the Wild Card didn't exist yet. The Giants competed against the Atlanta Braves in the Western Division at the time when the Braves were the dominate franchise. Heading into the last game of the year both the Giants and Braves had won 103 games. If both teams won again they would have played a one-game playoff.

So on October 3rd, 1993 Giants manager Dusty Baker decided to start rookie Salomon Torres as the pitcher. Torres had a 3-4 record going into that game and had only been a major league player for a month. Predictably the pressure got to Torres as he gave up 3 run in 3 1/3 innings. Game Over. The Giants never had a chance and eventually lost 12-1 to the Dodgers and Kevin Gross.

I cried my eyes out after this game. Sure my teams have lost worst games (The Kings and Giants both lost game 7's in 2002) but this game hurt a lot. I was five years old at the time and that was the first year I really gotten into baseball and the Giants. They were my team and they lost to evil incarnated. No matter what happened to my teams after this, it would not get much worse than the "Salomon Torres Game".

Everyone knows what happened after this season. After baseball returned from strike, there would be three divisions in each league with a Wild Card. The 1993 season was the last pennant race. Baseball was never the same and the 103 win, 1993 Giants were the cause of the change.

Salomon Torres was never quite forgiven for that game by Giants fans. Whenever he returned to San Francisco with an opposing team he would be booed. Torres finally spoke about Giants fans treatment of him a couple of years ago.

"They come to the park and they pay my salary, so they have the right to heckle me," said Torres. "If that's going to make them feel better and get over what happened in 1993, OK. But it's time to move on.

"I don't think I was treated fairly by some of my teammates," said Torres. "And I still don't think I'm being treated fairly by the fans."

Since the Giants won the World Series this year, I've finally forgiven Salomon Torres and I have gotten over October 3rd, 1993 the last time I cried after watching an sporting event.

So I have to ask, when was the last time you cried after watching a sporting event?

(Note: That photo above is the rookie card of Torres that my uncle gave me because he said that card "would be worth some good money twenty years from now." Thankfully my uncle bought Lincecum and Posey rookie cards to make up for the lost value of the Torres card.)