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Pundit: SD most tortured sports city

Good morning.

As Cleveland sports fans nurse celebration hangovers, pundits are left to weigh the fallout of Cleveland finally winning a major sports title.

Such as...which major American city now assumes Cleveland's spot as the unluckiest spectator sports market?

Bill Barnwell of ESPN.com, indulging his zest for sports analytics, devised a Sports Misery Index. When the point-tallying was done, the successor to Cleveland was, predictably, Cleveland West.

San Diego, you get to wave a foam finger.

With a nod to the hardcore fans of the Chargers and Padres, the pundit also threw cold water on a popular theory that San Diego sunshine dulls the pain of local sports fans.