(Japan rubbing it it right in our grill mix)

BEIJING (AP) -- Losing for the first time since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied its fourth straight gold medal, falling 3-1 to Japan on Thursday as the sport bowed out of the Olympics for at least eight years -- and maybe for good.

There are choke jobs and then there are choke jobs. When you lose your first game in 8 years in the Gold Medal game of the Olympics, that qualifies as one of the greatest choke jobs in the history of sports. I'm sure this will go down as Japan's version of the Miracle on Ice. Nice job ladies! Now get back in the kitchen where you belong instead of embarrassing our country! (I kid) Anyway, if I've said it once, I've said it a million times. You don't really know what it feels like to lose until the other team is throwing their coach up in the air like this. That's when you know you've hit rock bottom. Seriously do anything to me but this. I can take the pig piles, champagne, hugging etc. Just don't throw the coach up in the air right in my face.