Just bought my tickets for the year. Can't wait. Please Astros...do not do what the Rockets have done to us...
He gave up his 1st HR as we were walking down the aisle, the 2nd HR as we were sitting down, the 3rd about 2 minutes later.
Even if the Astros disappoint results wise, there is no way they will piss me off at the level the Rockets have. The Rockets really have an unprecedented combo of hard team to root for, hard style to watch, and poor results. At worst the Astros will only "accomplish" one of those 3.
The story is that Jose walked into Enron Field for the first time, saw the Crawford boxes, and went "Ooh, this is not good for Jose!"
Indeed... And he wasn't the only one. That first year, the LCF fence was lower (basically a HR was where the visitors bullpen is), so that added to the inflated numbers. Them moving it up (and promoting phenoms like Oswalt who showed everybody how to pitch there) helped to make it more fair.
I was at that game. I think it was vs. the Cubs, right? It was a day game. That first half of the 2000 season was so depressing. Beautiful ballpark...and it looked like we were going to have to completely revamp our team to ever compete there. ENTER: Roy Oswalt
But it was the greatest thing that ever could have happened for Biggio. Those boxes helped him extend his career and make it to the HOF. 2005 HR: 19 home, 7 road 2006 HR: 15 home, 6 road
Some, but he was basically a very productive player at home and beyond awful on the road. It was Coors like splits.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-historically-bad-clutch-hitting-of-the-2015-reds/ Were we really the 2nd worst clutch hitting team in 2015? Dead worst in the 2nd half?
Part of why we didn't live up to our run differential. I feel like we were 9th inning clutch, but not during the rest of the game.
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.as...m=21&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=21,d Lets look at individually who was worst: Luis Valbuena. -2.23 Evan Gattis.....-1.60 Chris Carter....-1.49 Colby Rasmus. -1.33
