Josh Stanley

Being the proud New York Yankee fan I am, I have experienced nothing but winning.

But that is not something a fan of Seattle teams can say.

The Seattle Seahawks, Mariners and Supersonics have done little to nothing for their city.

Starting with the Mariners, they have never even been on the World Series stage.

The Mariners’ only success has come from the three American League West titles they won – the last coming in 2001.

In football, the Seahawks have been fairly successful. They have won the division seven times and made the playoffs 11 times, but they have only been to the Super Bowl once, back when they lost Super Bowl XL to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Sonics won six division titles, three Western Conference titles and, brace your self Seattle fans, one NBA Championship back in 1979.

The Sonics were able to go to three NBA Finals and take home the trophy once, but the fans would eventually be heartbroken in the late 2000s.

The city’s only winning team was ripped away after the 2007-08 season and sent to Oklahoma City now called the Thunder.

Throughout all the years with the Seahawks, Mariners and Sonics, the city has experienced 111 seasons with the three teams and they only have ONE championship to show for it.

This city has risen above them all on the list of garbage cities to be a fan of and the next few years do not look like they will be any better.

Josh Stanley can be reached at [email protected].

Gabriel Pacheco

It is only a matter of time before the city of Orlando, Fla., says farewell to “Superman,” yet again.

To Orlando, it is 1996 all over again as they watched their first Superman Shaquille O’Neal, fly away from what he called “a dried-up little pond” and land in LA – where he won three consecutive championships.

But there is more, in the past 14 years the city has seen their only team make it to the NBA Finals twice.

The Magic was swept in four games in the 1995 NBA Finals by the defending champion Houston Rockets and lost in five games against the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2009 NBA Finals.

They were criticized about the Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady dynamic scoring duo, but never worked out as everyone thought it would – Hill was plagued with ankle injuries during his seasons in Orlando.

Now the city is faced with the awaited trade of the present Superman, Dwight Howard.

Howard is expected to be traded after this year’s NBA All-Star Game, ironically in Orlando, on Feb. 26.

The city will have to hold their breathe yet again and hope they don’t see their team become filled with a bunch of role-players for the third time.

Give credit to the city’s strength though; they have witnessed a team draft the two most dominating big men in the last 20 years with the first overall pick and not win a championship.

They can heal again, hopefully.

Gabriel Pacheco can be reached at [email protected].

Ryan Kuhn

Seattle is the home of many great things. Commercial coffee was born at the Pike Place Market, freshly caught seafood is brought in locally from the waterfront and music icon Kurt Cobain gave the nation the music of grunge.

But with as many accomplishments the city has seen, professional sports is not one of them. Their teams lose when seasons are on the line, or even worse, they leave the area all together.

It seems like forever ago, but Seattle had an NBA team in 2006 led by Kevin Durant, which would be the last image the sporting world will have of the Supersonics. After Washington state would not update their arena, owners sold the team resulting in the formation of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now with Durant being one of the most watched players in the NBA, I wonder how Thunder jerseys are selling in Washington?

Just three miles south, the Seattle Mariners brought in an average of 23,400 fans per game in 2011 that ranked 23rd of 30 teams in Major League Baseball.

Having a losing record six out of their last eight seasons and six managers in the last 10 years, it shows depression can spread like the plague at Safeco Field. The Mariners also lost twice to the Yankees in the ALCS in back-to-back seasons.

Bring an expansion NBA team to Seattle and their fans might be happy, but until then, Seattle will be depressing just like the Seahawks choking in Superbowl XL or anybody wearing the lime green jerseys of 2009.

Ryan Kuhn can be reached at [email protected].

David Somers

Several cities would probably try to lay claim to the title of worst sport city in the United States. But few can hold a candle to the undisputed champion of elusive championships.

Cleveland. Do I really need to say anything more?

Take your pick when it comes to the misfortunes this town has endured. Past tragedies like “The Drive,” “The Catch,” “The Fumble,” “The Shot,” “Red Right 88” or most recently, “The Decision” give you plenty of past heartbreaks to choose from. Enough heartbreak, in fact, to legitimately induce full-on metropolitan cardiac arrest.

Don’t believe me? Consider the following:

Cleveland’s last major championship came 48 years ago in 1964 when the Browns won the pre-merger NFL title. The Browns finally won Super Bowl XXXV in 2001. Oh wait, that was five years after they had left town and became the Baltimore Ravens.

Over the course of more than 100 years of baseball, the Indians only have two World Series titles, last winning it 64 years ago in 1948.

And since the Cavaliers have never won an NBA crown, that makes for nearly a 150 years of combined professional seasons in Cleveland without winning it all.

I mean, the town even boasts a blog entitled “God Hates Cleveland Sports.”

And with that, I lay my argument to rest.