I love watching a pitching duel on TV, but when I am at the game it is impossible to tell if he is throwing strikes or balls from behind the plate so I prefer more offense at the game.
That's what I get for skimming. And yeah, the team has done a spectacular job this season. Can't think of one thing worth complaining about, after the seemingly endless stream of crap.
If you sit in that same seat and watch a ton of games... you'll be able to tell. Managers have a terrible vantage point to look at balls/strikes... but they're so used to it now, they've been able to adapt (otherwise its stupid for any of them to ever argue with an ump... hell, it may be stupid anyways).
Tell that to the hundreds of kids and moms yawning all around me including my own wife and kids. Or the other hundred playing with their smart phones the entire time. Just admit it, there are many more casual fans than hard core fans but that doesn't make them any less of a fan. They love the team and support as well it's just they have their own way of doing it. You won't believe it but the wave got folks up and moving again. They got excited and yelling again which eventually was shifted away from the wave and to the field. The fans carried that momentum started by the wave into the 8th and 9th where the support was really really good. The wave got the casuals engaged back into the game!!!
I heard the wave also cured cancer and subsequently found Jimmy Hoffa and solved the JFK assassination at the same time!!! You did start the wave, didn't you?
I used to have zero tolerance for all the stadium tomfoolery; then I got married/had kids. I would wager a fair amount of money that most of the active anti-wave crowd is either single or kid-less.
Married, with kids... partook in the wave as a kid and wised up as an adult. I anticipate the same to happen with the little ones as well... although they don't need the wave to make the game exciting (now needing hot dogs, ice cream, cracker jack, cotton candy, mini bats, bobble-head dolls, etc.... that's another story)
My daughter has been chanting "let's go Astros, clap clap clapclapclap" since she was 2. She'd shun a girl her age if she saw her doing the wave.
Ha! I honestly, and sincerely, don't understand the active angst. Who cares? You'd prefer 30,000 people busily keeping boxscores? (NERDS!) It's supposed to be fun. And while I've disliked the wave for the entirety of my life (even as a kid*), if it makes other people happy.... * I did, unabashedly, love Crazy George as a kid, though.
Driving down from Frisco tomorrow to see Kid Keuchy get back on track and collect my promo Biggio jersey. Taking my daughter to her first game along with her cousin...they will not be doing the wave.
Just because you don't like doesn't mean it didn't/doesn't happen. And no I didn't start the wave but my 4 year old lit up when she saw it coming around so we did have fun with it. Let me apologize now, we only participated to have some fun, we didn't intentionally try and interfere with your "game" experience. Most fans around me I don't think realize how serious the "game" is for you and many others apparently. Again I apologize, we'll try and not get in the way of your serious mental concentration during the "game" next time. I mean no disrespect calling it a "game" either, it's serious and important. I understand that now.
The whole CSN network is a disaster in the last few years. Granted, all 3 of them - the Astros, Rockets, and Comcast should share the blames for the failure. But when things went bad and the other 2 sides are looking for ways to get out of it, especially the Rockets - which are becoming a good team and badly needs the broadcast to increase their market value, the Astros are insisting they don't want to cut a deal to lose further. Yes, they have a bad team at that time and no eager to do anything, but with this kind of moves plus the last 5-8 years of horrible things happened to this team, they are just further damaging their fan base. No matter how you see this, Houston is still a major sport market, and right now this is the most exciting team in the MLB, its a shame that we can't have a better attendance. But as I said, Jim Crane and his team has not been doing a good job on this nor they have the vision and planning like the Rockets.
My kids refuse. My 10 year old used the word, "abomination" to describe it last night at the game. I can neither confirm nor deny that a lone tear streaked down my cheek.
