(Talking about All Star Game here) I mean, poor Phil can't even get one of the top closers in the NL to hold a one-run lead in the 9th inning EDIT: this posst/thread was a joke. i don't really think garner is cursed. just found the irony comical
Roy must have felt at home - the NL Stars gave him the same kind of run support he gets from the 'Stros. One more out and Oswalt would have been the winning pitcher for the NL.
Wow. That's bizarre. One of the best closers of all time, and he gives up a triple in the clutch? That's just painful. Is Garner cursed? I wouldn't say so yet. If Garner were cursed, the Astros don't win in Game 7 of the ALDS for sure, and we don't come back after that Pujols homer in the ALCS...we would have tanked or gone to game 7 and had some sort of Red Soxesque collapse. But the way things are going this season...
So I have two questions for you. 1. When did the Astros switch leagues 2. How do you get a game 7 out of best of 5?
i have one question for you. since when is the NLCS best of 5? and we won in game 6 by the way. nice attempt at a clever, smartass response though. you got some of it right.
i guess it was a successful attempt at a smartass response! i need to pay some tipjar cash for some editing privileges.
I feel sorry for Hoffman....poor b*stard turned into Lidge for a night. Then again Albert was in the house....guess it doesn't matter in which dugout!
haha we can go at this forever... NLDS is best of 5, and we beat the Braves in 4 games. We played the Braves in the NLDS. we played the Cards in the NLCS and yes, you are correct, we won it in 6 games. I think I got it ALL right.
Probably had a pep talk with Lidge before he went out there. 2 outs with no one on base? Screw it up? No problem!
No...the pep talk was from Garner...this is how it went.... Phil: "Okay Brad...uh I mean Trevor....here's the ball...go get'em" Trevor: "Uh Phil..what do you want be to do out there?" Phil: "Lets make it dramatic for the fans....I say get the first two out...then sort of let them back into the game! Trevor: "Huh?" Phil: "Yeah...I tell Lidge to do this all the time and the fans love it...makes for good baseball!" Trevor: "But...your team will lose right?" Phil: "Oh who cares about wins and losses...it's all entertainment anyway and fans like drama!"
That's what I get for not proofing my posts. Point is, if Garner were really cursed, Chris Burke doesn't come through with that home run in the 18th, and the Astros don't come back after the Pujols home run. People forget that after the Buckner gaffe, the Red Sox threw away game 7 of that World Series as well.
No one actually believes Garner is cursed, but he's been getting a pretty amazing string of bad luck ever since that postseason.
A single, a double, and a triple in the ninth inning, with one of the best closers on the mound, all with two outs. Yeah, I'd say he's cursed.
I (thread starter) was just joking around about Phil really being cursed. But you have to admit it is a little funnny. (after you get over the anger at losing home field)
