I agree with you totally. This was the best Astros playoff performance, but I think expectations were higher in 1980 and 1986. I guess that's why those were more painful (much more painful!!!). Plus, the way we lost those games contributed to the pain.
Well, at least Bags and Biggio were finally able to shake the playoff bug. Major props to them. Given how well the team played when they finally decided to turn it on, it should be very interesting next year with a complete and healthy pitching staff. No way Clemens retires after b****ing out today.
Houston sports.......what can I say? Maybe it's in the water. Except for the Rockets in 80, 86, and mid-ninties.......we just don't get to the big stage. Oh well, Bastketball season is here!!
I admire Garner for sticking to his guns. He said all along that he wasn't going to change the team's approach. They won with big swings and he wasn't going to have them change now. But, that is just inexperience. At this time of year, you have to make different choices. You see the Cardinals, with the best hitting team in all of baseball, and they are moving guys over, bunting, sacrificing, doing what they need to to win. And the Astros just keep swinging for the fences.
The really sad thing is the Astros will never have the fan support they had this season. Breaking the heart of the casual fan like this will be long lasting. These same bandwagon fans now know what the Astros are like and will never support them like this again.
Jeff, Go Rockets! If anything this makes me apperciate the Rockets championship much more... its a b**** to make it to the top.
great season by the astros but the cardinals were the better team tonite and kudos for them to win the nlcs now time to watch my tivo rockets game
I won't be watching a single nanosecond of the World Series. Unless the Red Sox are about to win the thing, in which case I'll tune in to see how they blow it this year.
Personally I am going for the Sox. Although despite my current anger I respect the Cardinals as a team, the Sox and the Astros were the teams I wanted to see in the World Series, and now that we are gone, by process of elimination that leaves Boston Plus it's going to be a blast reading the Sports Guy during the World Series.
The final four of a sport which is the HARDEST post-season to get to, after a 162 game grind of a season... is pretty big stage. I understand everyone's dissapointment, but its mis-guided. They just lost to the better team. That team proved it throughout the regular season, and backed it up in the playoffs. The fact that we took them this far just shows you what this team was made of... which is more than I can say for some of you in here.
he was coming out of his shoes on damn near every pitch. low, inside, outside, up, whatever. everything but the pitch right down the middle. and no RIET i wasn't shocked. but with so many things going our way to end the season, beating the braves, crushing homers everywhere, i thought maybe it would be different. but the offense went to sleep for basically the last 3 games. and i'm not sure about garner. the absolute enormous amount of weird moves he makes is kinda hard to swallow. no one warming up, taking out bidge for palmeiro was it? berkman out yesterday. biggio in that other game on a double switch then no double switch after it. everything. i'd probably bring him back but it would be sketchy if we didn't catch lightning in a bottle to start next season. he might start looking a lot worse when everything isn't going right.
It was a hell of a roller coaster ride this season. From signing Pettitte and Clemens to the 3 month long slump to a miracle run in September. This team was left for dead in August and they managed to prove the so called experts wrong. They came within 1 game; or 4 innings of reaching the series. Thanks for the most odd and memorable season in recent memory. With that being said, i absolutely dread the offseason
