World Series win, no doubt. I love the game of baseball....I hate what has become of it at the professional level.
I say World Series, not because I love baseball more than football and basketball. My love is like whoa. No really, it's football, basketball, then baseball. I think when a baseball team wins the WS, it's more special due to the fact the there's not a lot of trading that goes on in baseball. You definitely can attach to the players on your team. We see, as with the Rockets, it's an ever changing face.
World Series and NBA Championship are tied at the top for me. Either would be ok.....I don't really follow pro football since the Oilers left. DD
Wow, my suspicions have been confirmed. I was going by the 12 Astro threads and the 1 Texan thread in the Hangout. Also, this Beltran thing has really shown me something. People who don't even watch sports know who Beltran is. Personally, I'd go with the Texans Superbowl only because football is my all time favorite sport and always will be. Agree with texx, basketball (although I still love it) just isn't what it was in the 90's. The whole league is still going through Jordan withdrawal IMO.
A World Series win by the Stros for my father. He has lowered his hopes to just seeing the Astros in the World Series, doesn't even care if they win it, someday before the grim reaper arrives.
i had a client who just died recently. he was a huge astros fan. the first thought that went across my mind was him not ever seeing the 'stros in a World Series.
Actually, what would be even sweeter is if we beat the Mets in the NLCS with Beltran striking out with the bases loaded in the 9th to end the game. Then we beat the Yankees in the World Series with Clemens pitching a complete game in game 7 in the Bronx. Wow, now THAT would be a dream come true.
Another thing I'd like to point out is that if this poll were not taken on a Rockets message board, I would guess that the NBA championship would get less than 10% of the votes. There's a pretty heavy bias here.
yeah..i kinda snickered at the bias for baseball comment given the fact we're on a Rockets message board!
This specific dream is very good, but put Beltran getting brushed back and knocked to the ground by Clemens a couple of times too.
Well the thing is, we are all mostly from Houston and were around for the Rocket's championchips in the 90's. We also have been through the Oiler meltdowns and Astro playoff disasters. If I had to pick, the Astros would get top priority, Rockets and then Texans.
That's funny, I've envisioned the exact same scenario in my mind a thousand times since Saturday night. I had a feeling I wasn't the only one. The dream is always the same. Beltran at bat with the bases loaded and 2 out. Astros up by 1 run. Clemens pitching. The MM crowd is so loud that the rafters are shaking. Strike 3, MMP BLOWS UP. Carlos mopes back to the dugout shaking his head.
I thought about this the other night when I was watching the Guy Lewis documentary on FSN. The Rockets, until recently, have always had a "Hometown" feeling about them for me. Rudy being there so long, Hakeem, Clyde, Calvin, and so on. That's one thing thats missing about them now, for me anyway - there's no real ties. I like them but I don't know that I would be as excited for this group of guys to win it all as I was for our teams of a decade ago. They seem more like hired guns than a team. The Astros are just the opposite right now, Berkman, Jose Cruz, Bagwell, Biggio, Pettite and hopefully Clemens make me want to see this team go places they haven't been, and win.
Hey, even Rudy T was just some kid from Michigan when he came here. Now we have some kid from Shanghai and some guy from Florida who demanded to come here. I NEED another NBA championship. Watching Yao and TMac hugging each other while the balloons come down in Toyota Center would be SO AWESOME. A close but definitive second would be seeing Jeff and Craig do the same at MMP. The Texans? Ehh, go Houston, I guess.
