My First Game at Minute Maid

[Sishir Chang]

Well my first game at the Juice Box and watching Oswalt and Lidge pitch was quite an experience. Great stadium but it brought back too many memories of Houston teams of yore doing their utmost to snatch defeat from imminent victory.

I'll have to remember next time I watch a Stro's blowout I don't think, "Its too bad the Stros are running away with this because I would really like to see Lidge..." Pretty cool Lidge intro too with "Here Comes the Pain" and lights out scoreboard graphics. Really rivals the Mariano 'Enter Sandman' intro the Yankees do.

Great seeing my favorite player Biggio hit a leadoff homer but most of all it was great to be surrounded by a lot of Astros fans. As compared to the last time I saw the Stros live when I was about the only one cheering for them in the tomblike Metrodome.

[swilkins]

Well my first game at the Juice Box and watching Oswalt and Lidge pitch was quite an experience. Great stadium but it brought back too many memories of Houston teams of yore doing their utmost to snatch defeat from imminent victory.

I'll have to remember next time I watch a Stro's blowout I don't think, "Its too bad the Stros are running away with this because I would really like to see Lidge..." Pretty cool Lidge intro too with "Here Comes the Pain" and lights out scoreboard graphics. Really rivals the Mariano 'Enter Sandman' intro the Yankees do.

Great seeing my favorite player Biggio hit a leadoff homer but most of all it was great to be surrounded by a lot of Astros fans. As compared to the last time I saw the Stros live when I was about the only one cheering for them in the tomblike Metrodome.

That was quite the nail-biter. I'm happy they pulled it off.

[oomp]

You got to see a crazy one. I've seen games at the Metrodome, the best part about seeing a game there is leaving. ;)

Good luck for your competition this weekend.

[JeeberD]

MMP is impressive. I remember my first game there a few years ago. It was sweltering hot outside, but once I stepped inside the AC made it great. Then I walked a few feet and this beautiful grass field opened up before me! It was almost surreal...

[Harrisment]

Really rivals the Mariano 'Enter Sandman' intro the Yankees do.



What a ripoff, Billy Wagner has been coming out to Enter Sandman for a long time.

[Jugdish]

What a ripoff, Billy Wagner has been coming out to Enter Sandman for a long time.

I was thinking that Mariano may have been ripped off. He's been around longer, anyway.

[Buck Turgidson]

I was thinking that Mariano may have been ripped off. He's been around longer, anyway.
Nope, Wagner used the song first.

This was apparently a big to-do amongst the idiot media & fans in NY early this season...Wagner basically laughed at them.

[Groogrux]

I was thinking that Mariano may have been ripped off. He's been around longer, anyway.

Incorrect.

[JBIIRockets]

Didn't Wagner and Rivera both come to the bigs in 96?

[Buck Turgidson]

Didn't Wagner and Rivera both come to the bigs in 96?
While with Houston during Wagner's rookie season in 1996, teammate Jeff Bagwell disliked the lefty's entry music, George Strait's "They Call Me the Fireman," and persuaded Wagner to switch.

Rivera didn't begin using the song for another three years. Yankee Stadium personnel had been so struck by the crowd reaction in San Diego the previous season when Trevor Hoffman entered games to AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" that they sought to find an anthem for Rivera. Scoreboard operator Mike Luzzi brought in a bunch of CDs and the Yankees tested different tunes, including Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City." They settled on "Enter Sandman," which drew the best crowd response. Rivera didn't even know anything about the band.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/406147p-343920c.html

Wagner had taken a lighthearted approach to the "controversy" with Yankee fans over his shared music with Rivera. When teammates warned him during spring training that his "Enter Sandman" entrance music would rile Yankee fans, Wagner replied: "Nah, surely they're definitely brighter people than that."

"Oh, well," he concluded yesterday.

Wagner actually found the topic hysterical. He even called former teammate Jeff Bagwell, who picked the song for him in 1996, to tell the veteran Astro to check out the New York media accounts on the Internet.

"I can't wait to talk to Mariano because I know he's going to be laughing about it," Wagner said. "Honestly, this is funny. It's the funniest damn thing I've seen in my life. They said anything can happen in New York.

"Does he wear Nike or Reebok? Maybe I've got to change that, too. I think he wears black socks, too. I have to stop wearing those."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/406454p-344157c.html

[rrj_gamz]

Yankees Suck...

[Aceshigh7]

Lidge's "Here comes the pain." intro is definitely the coolest in baseball.

The song is by a band called Drowning Pool.

[Saint Louis]

MMP is impressive. I remember my first game there a few years ago. It was sweltering hot outside, but once I stepped inside the AC made it great. Then I walked a few feet and this beautiful grass field opened up before me! It was almost surreal...

I've been to MMP once. A hot July day game against the Braves. The place was pack, the AC was on and I was watching baseball in Houston on a grass field. Let's just say it is nothing like I remember from my childhood. I'd love to see a game with the roof open, maybe someday. By the way the Astros beat the Braves and shut up all those Braves fans.

I remember my first game at Busch stadium and thinking to myself, "so this is what MLB looks like outdoors".

[across110thstreet]

[i]http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/406454p-344157c.html


welcome to last week's news in the talk radio department..


they wont shut up about it, the Post printed "Exit Sandman" after Billy blew his first save last week... (who's laughing now? the Mets own bragging rights as the best team in baseball)

whats funny is the radio people act like the Yankees are the only team in baseball. when someone argues that Wagner has always used the song, they defend the "Yankee Experience" and how Mariano is a hall of famer, its his song, his identity...

newsflash, the Mets are in an entirely different League, they dont owe the Yankees jack, and not everyone in this city cheer for the Yankees...

[Sishir Chang]

they wont shut up about it, the Post printed "Exit Sandman" after Billy blew his first save last week... (who's laughing now? the Mets own bragging rights as the best team in baseball)

I take it they didn't bother to print that when Rivera blew a save last weekend.