Another Year, Another Painful Elimination

Last year, the Sports Guy wrote his classic column on the 13 Levels of Losing. I couldn't help but think of this as I watched the Giants endure an unbelievably painful loss this morning. Using Bill Simmons's metric, this game would qualify as a combination of The Rabbit's Foot, Dead Man Walking, The Guillotine and The Stomach Punch. This loss had it all. The pitcher Willis getting three hits. Felix Rodriguez loading the bases and giving up two runs all with two outs. And to cap it off, that play at the plate. In fourteen years of watching baseball, I had never seen a tag at the plate end a game, much less a playoff series. Seeing JT Snow slump to the ground just made my heart sink- especially knowing that that was probably Snow's last play in a Giants uniform. Boy, this is gonna be a hard one to swallow.