Night Owl Cards

  My only experience with my favorite team finishing dead last happened exactly 30 years ago. The 1992 Los Angeles Dodgers team is famous for placing last, sixth of six teams in the National League West. It was the first time -- and the only time -- that a Dodgers team had finished last since the move to Los Angeles. And it was the first time the franchise, either while residing in L.A. or Brooklyn, had placed last since the 1905 Brooklyn Superbas were 8th out of 8 teams with a 46-104 record. Even those historically famous bumbling Brooklyn Bums of the 1920s and 1930s never finished at the very bottom. The Dodgers simply did not/do not place last. That's what made 1992 so shocking to me. What the hell was this?   I had known disappointment -- two World Series losses within my first three-plus years of being a fan -- but I had been spoiled, too. The Dodgers had pretty much ditched their "build your own stars" philosophy by the early '90s and were grabbing superstars as...