Embarrassments to endure before I die ... (1) Watch my boyhood dreams evaporate before my very eyes in a gut-wrenching, nationally publicised playoff collapse. (Got it, 2003!) (2) Get knocked from playoff contention by the Cincinnati Reds. (Got it! TWICE! 2004, 2005) (3) Watch the Cards clinch on us. (Got it, 2005!) (4) See Houston clinch against us. (Got it in 1997, relived it in 2005!) (5) Suffer through a White Sox title run. (?) Man, I don't need this.