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Jeff
10-09-2001, 03:45 PM
Could it be the smell of an Astros choke?

Cough, cough...gasp...cough...
RocksMillenium
10-09-2001, 03:47 PM
That was wrong! lol :)
sirhangover
10-09-2001, 03:51 PM
yeah that all too familiar smell of bagwell choking on cue...in the game when it counts...

classic..
Baqui99
10-09-2001, 03:52 PM
Oops I did it again!!!!
7-3 BRAVES
ROCKSS
10-09-2001, 03:53 PM
This sucks
Jeff
10-09-2001, 03:55 PM
Man, talk about awful.

Did you see how Bagwell and Alou acted in the bottom of the 8th after they got out. The were slumped over like they had no spines. Oh, wait. Maybe they don't! :)
RocksMillenium
10-09-2001, 04:07 PM
Man where did the pitching go! It was looking awesome early, then they made Atlanta look the the Braves of old. Decisions like this get guys fired.
chievous minniefield
10-09-2001, 04:10 PM
decisions like what? putting in one of the, if not the, best 1-2 closing tandems in the majors to pitch the 8th and 9th?

please don't try to make that sound like dierker's fault.

dierker didn't boot the double play ball, and dierker didn't give up the home run pitch.

you may not have been talking about dierker, and if you weren't, I apologize if I seem like I'm jumping down your throat.

but what "decisions" led to the astros choking? again.
Baqui99
10-09-2001, 04:12 PM
Originally posted by chievous minniefield
decisions like what? putting in one of the, if not the, best 1-2 closing tandems in the majors to pitch the 8th and 9th?

please don't try to make that sound like dierker's fault.

dierker didn't boot the double play ball, and dierker didn't give up the home run pitch.

you may not have been talking about dierker, and if you weren't, I apologize if I seem like I'm jumping down your throat.

but what "decisions" led to the astros choking? again.

Almost everyone knew that the game was over once Mike Jackson took the mound. Nobody was surprised to see Lugo boot that double-play ball either.
RocksMillenium
10-09-2001, 04:15 PM
So many different decisions, but I'm not an Astros fan, but even I know that putting in Mike Jackson was akin of raising a white flag.
VesceySux
10-09-2001, 04:33 PM
Um, Jeff, that smell is the charred wreckage of my TV after putting my fist through it and drop-kicking it off the roof of my apartment building.

What does choking smell like, anyway?
RichRocket
10-09-2001, 04:37 PM
It certainly is not the smell of Astros' bats burning up... or is it?!
MoonDogg
10-09-2001, 05:23 PM
It smells very similar to the way an Oiler's postseason used to.....only a little stronger.
Behad
10-09-2001, 05:26 PM
I will not be speaking to the media about the Astros until they are out of the playoffs.
ROXRAN
10-09-2001, 05:37 PM
Have you ever had Deja vu before?
Rocket Fan
10-09-2001, 08:23 PM
chievous.. putting in the best 1-2 closing tandem in the league??? you realize they put jackson not dotel in.. if it was dotel then it might have been best 1-2
chievous minniefield
10-09-2001, 08:47 PM
yes, I want to recant my earlier statement. it was made on an emotional impulse.

dierker is, in the words of judge danforth from The Crucible, "a BRAINLESS man!".

my vote is for, in order:

1) felipe alou [if it means we get to keep moises]
2) tony pena
3) nolan ryan

I only got to see the very worst part of the game, right when jackson came in. when jones hit his home run and they cut to dierker in the dugout, he looked like one defeated sumbitch.

I sure wish I could've seen the postgame conference.
Sonny
10-10-2001, 10:04 AM
Do not give up so fast.

It is not over until we lose THREE times.

We will come back.

I still BELIEVE!!!


GO ASTROS!!!!