OK, I know this sounds cheesy, but beginning Saturday, I'm only wearing black dress socks on World Series game days. Show your support for the Astros by not wearing any white socks! Hey, you have to admit that it's not as stupid as that grocery store taking all the KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce off the shelves when the Oilers played the Chiefs in the playoffs.
wearing the black socks sounds like a great idea. Gives a 1919 feel to it, doesn't it? It has "Shoeless Joe Jackson" written all over it.
One for each game of the World Series! Keep those socks, unwashed, in a safe deposit box, after game 6. Then give them to your grandchildren. (could be anywhere between now to 50+ years from now, the longer the better) They'll fall over for 5 hours, then you can sneak off to bingo. B5! B7!
I like the mayors idea too. Astros to hold Rally Friday at ballpark 10/20/2005 7:48 PM ET By Alyson Footer / MLB.com A couple hundred fans greeted the Astros at Minute Maid Park when the team arrived from St. Louis in the wee hours Thursday morning after clinching their first trip to the World Series. Several more will have a chance to show their appreciation to their hometown team Friday morning, when the team departs the ballpark for Chicago, where they will play in the first World Series in Houston history. The Friday Morning Send-Off Rally will begin at 9:30 a.m. CT at the corner of Texas Ave. and the Avenidas De Las Americas. Fans will hear from Astros players, announcers Milo Hamilton and Alan Ashby, Mayor Bill White, and others. The buses will pull out of the parking garage at Minute Maid Park at approximately 10 a.m. and will drive along Crawford Street and Texas Ave., where fans will line up to give the team one last send-off. Mayor White encourages Houstonians to support the Astros by wearing their team gear and discarding their socks -- or is it Sox? The Mayor declared Friday, Saturday and Sunday as a "No Socks" weekend in Houston. "This is a special time for Houstonians, so whether you wear an Astro shirt or a cap or wear no socks, show your support for the hometown team," Mayor White said. "We want to send a message to our National League Champions that we are behind them all the way." http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/content/printer_friendly/hou/y2005/m10/d20/c1256080.jsp
I got the word. I'm in the office this morning wearing my Astros/Clemens 22 T-shirt, torn blues jeans, and deck shoes.....with no socks!
