A pit-in-the-stomach morning.

It’s been a bad few days to be a fan of central Florida’s professional sports teams. I’m referring specifically to the Tampa Bay Rays and Orlando Magic.

On Sunday night and last night, both teams played at about the same time, which had me working the “Last” button on the remote a lot, but mostly sticking with the Magic because a) It’s the NBA Playoffs vs. early in the MLB regular season; b) I’m more of a hoops fan and c) basketball is a more entertaining sport.

At any rate, both teams lost both games in particularly heartbreaking +/or frustrating fashion. Especially the Magic. With a chance to take a dominating 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series on Sunday, Orlando saw a 20-foot jumpshot by Boston’s Glen “Big Chubby” Davis, slink through the net at the buzzer for a one-point loss.

Hey, shit happens.

This article appears in May 13-19, 2009.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...