I hate to say it but haven is right. Walk the freakin smirker. Or if you're gonna throw a meatball at least make it a 98 mph heater.
If there's one thing we've learned about the stros these past 2 years is that YOU NEVER COUNT THEM OUT!! Roy O gives us a Mike Scott flashback and kills the Cards in game 6!!
Hey Major, i said i hope they win but this is CRUSHING...to be one out away is just so damn defeating. i'm pulling for them because i love the astros and always will but this was the opportunity to do it. going back to st. louis is going to be really difficult. i have all the confidence in the world in oswalt. he will be great but our offense hasn't been so great. i hope they win but right now i just don't see it happening. GO ASTROS!!!!
Man.....what a letdown. I was in the cheapest seats I've ever been in at Minutemaid (and they were awesome!), and that place was on fire. It was like being at a Metallica concert it was so loud. They were loading confetti into the canons all around.........and then the roof caved it. Anyone else have little kids around you crying?
This is baseball. You win some great games you lose some great games. If it wasn't dramatic it wouldn't be any fun. Not worried. Feel as though it was destiny. We'll tear down Busch Stadium for them in game 6 or game 7.
Finally, Clutchfans.net is up so I can b**** and moan on here. What a devastating loss. I haven't felt that bad after a game since Buffalo, and I'm very very worried now. This is the kind of loss that can haunt you. The good thing is the Astros have battled back from so much this season that they are capable of overcoming this. But I'm very concerned.
Baseball gods say that Astros are in trouble. Historically, magical crushing comebacks somehow result in momentum shift (ala Mets over Boston, Boston over Yanks). Well, I'm still betting on the Astros. This is a team that's dealt with Adversity many many times - and made crazy comebacks. Now, the tables were turned for a game - it just makes for a great series. But let's not forget we have Roy Oswalt AND Roger Clemens coming to the mound for the next two games. We still have two aces, not one. The pressure is still on St. Louis, not Houston.
I sent this to Jim Rome's email address right now. rome@haveatake.com Thanks for hooking me up with the Jungle Karma last night you prick! - Brad Lidge
Couldn't agree more. You throw the ball in the dirt as many times as it takes. Don't even give him the chance to see a pitch he likes. Lidge threw him a bacon double cheeseburger, and Pujols sank his teeth into it big time.
If we lose this series, the pain from this game will far surpass any misery I had from the Buffalo game. ONE ****ING STRIKE AWAY.
Well, I had a great view from the upper deck on the first base side of Pujols mammoth shot. I took the time to look at people leaving the park last night and the quantity of dejected, sour faces was all over the place. I really can't question any moves in this game, which makes it that much more difficult to accept this loss.
If the Astros go on to lose this series my personal most devistating Houston losses would be... 1. Astros/Cards NLCS 2. Oilers/Broncos playoffs - Elway drive 3. Oilers/Bills - 35-3
Anyone else experience trouble sleeping last night? I kept waking up with this aching heart feeling, kinda like a bad breakup with a girlfriend...then I'd be wondering why I felt this way, and BOOM! Visions of moonshots kept replaying in my brain. I have faith in Roy O. We'll get'r done in 6!
Next game is pretty much a must win for the Astros. If they lose game 6, I think their chances are pretty much over. Game 7 in St. Louis with the momentum all on the Cardinals side would be extremely difficult to overcome. Games 6 will basically be game 7 for the Astros.
I know we should have learned to never count this team out, but I just don't see how it is possible to recover from this psychologically. Roy had better nail this down because I don't think Clemens has enough left in the tank to face that lineup again. Here's to hoping they pull this out. I don't want to have to tell my grandkids 50 years from now about the night in 2005 when Brad Lidge left a hanging slider over the heart of the plate to the greatest hitter of my generation, and blew the NL pennant.
I expected it - if Lidge gave him anything near the strike zone. Yesterday before the game I was contemplating how they would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I never imagined that it would involve giving the best hitter in the game a chance to win the game. My scenario involved Edmunds getting a juicy pitch as Pujols looked on from the on deck circle.
Mine. 1. Astros/Cards NLCS (if we go on to lose the next two games) 2. The rest don't matter. Had Buffalo been in the AFC Conference championship game, it'd be up there. If the Rockets had not won in 94, the 93 series against the Sonics would be up there too. All I know is that I've never felt physically ill after a game like I did last night. My whole body had goosebumps for that entire 9th inning. We were all hugging, arms around each other watching the last few pitches. There was no way we were going to lose. Then my heart was ripped out of my chest. Between the 7 of us, I think the only words to come out of our mouths before we left were expletives.
When Fat Albert came to the plate last night I said, "you walk him." You walk that guy every freaking time in that situation. I don't care how they spin it. I don't care what anyone else tries to say. You don't let that guy beat you. You take your chance with the next guy tying the game...but you don't let freaking Albert be the winning run on his own swing. Insane. There's a reason why there are intentional walks. There's a reason why guys like Pujols and Bonds get walked a lot. This is it.
