According to Wikipedia, the University of Kentucky Men's Basketball program had three legendary teams during the Rick Pitino era. They were the "The Unforgettables": the 1992 team, "The Untouchables": the 1996 team, "The Unbelievables": the 1997 team.
Personally, I have always called the 1992 team the "unforgivables" because it was unforgivable that they lost that game to Duke and unforgivable that they didn't at least attempt to block Christian Laettner's game-winning shot. Mostly I did this to tease Left Wing Jumper (whose name does little to hide the fact that he is über-wonkish on all things college basketball), who has always retorted with some explanatiopn of just how improbable that it is that the 1992 team even made it that far, considereing when Eddie Sutton left, the NCAA was one vote from giving the death penalty to the program.
As you probably are aware, last night the Minnesota Twins completed the sweep of the Chicago White Sox and pulled into the lead in the AL Central. Based on the sheer unlikelhood of a sweep happening, StarTribune writer Jim Souhan has dubbed them "the Improbables."
The problem for me is that it has taken all of my best efforts not to get sucked back onto the Twins bandwagon. I've never been one for roller-coasters, and the thought of them blowing their play-off chances (or making the play-offs, and getting swept by the Rays) has kept me from being a full on die-hard fan. Well, I guess last night changed things a bit. Now I have to root for them.
But I swear, if they lose ... they are the new "unforgivables."
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