I wish the national radio types would lay off the "Don't look now, but the Astros are only 2.5 games out. They're a team nobody wants to face in a short series." Dude, y'all wrote us off and now the team is making their annual Phoenix-like rise from the dead. Stay the F off of the bandwagon. Let us here in this inconsequential, small market enjoy the ride. We'll deal with the rest of y'all in October.
You know,I have a feeling too and the crystal ball shows "Joker, Joker, Joker!" I mean "WWW". LOL. Man, after reading some of those STL threads, you get the feeling if Crapnturd goes "kick me here and shove this baseball bat up my ass with no vaseline" there just may be a line to jump out of the Gateway Arch later tonite. We truly could not have had a better opponent for the Cards to face off with to help culminate the colossal chokejob to come. The Pads are hungry. Keep fightin Dodgers, just win we have to keep dangling the carrot. No joy just yet. Wow, we can be negative but, hell some of them were throwing Pujols under the bus. Wow! I mean as bad as things have gotten we never booed Sir Lance and we never ripped on him in here that I see regardless. But, they're great baseball fans and we're a bunch of redneck hicks who last week couldnt spell baseball now we are one. I've heard some say we, Astros fans are classless and rude. I think the opposite. I'd say we are very intelligent and we know how to seize the moment. Example, when we played the Braves in 04, their fans gave them no energy to feed off of. While here we generated enough frickin electricity to power Texas for a month. Remember in the playoffs, all bets are off and as a fan you grab any psychological advantage you can to create fear and doubt in the opposition. That's what being a fan is ALL about! Remember, the "jailbird" chant in game 4 of the NLDS in reference to Furcal, I started that and surprise he did nothing the rest of the game offensively. I rest my case ... I hope you all realize the territory we are potentially going into ... this comeback will be greater than the 78 yankees, the 69 mets, and the 51 giants. Ironically, all the above won the world series championship. Whoohoo! Buckle up, this is where it starts getting fun!
i'm nervous during the games, too! that's part of the fun, actually!! but...i just love baseball. i miss it so much when it's gone that, particularly this time of year, i soak it up to last me all during the winter. even when the 'stros are awful, i'm taking it in big time this time of year.
The team is flawed, but so are all the teams, particularly in the National league. What a great ending it would be for Roger if we can somehow squeak into the playoffs and do some damage. I am hoping....nay....PRAYING that we make it. DD
To be fair, that stltoday site is like going to the ESPN boards or ezboards. Just a bunch of trolls and children acting like trolls and children. The guys at http://www.birdsonthebat.org/ would be a better place to look for a real cards fan reaction. But they are still douchebags.
i couldn't believe it when i was reading that. some of them were BLAMING Pujols for the Cards suckage. it's almost sad...almost.
Sadly, there is no Clutchfanslike gold standard for astros discussion. OWA is probably the best, but those guys are a special breed. astrosdaily is where that tard RyanED hails from. That's all I have to say about that!
Honestly, most of us wrote them off when they got sweep by the Phillies, so this is just bonus fun. Enjoy the ride. Win or lose, what a way to finish the last week of the season. Astros are all about DRAMA; as the curtain falls they have one more surprise.
The original astrosdaily board was great; then they shut it down and sent everyone to the EZboards place--and that place is a ridiculous soap opera. I agree that OWA has the best baseball discussion, but it's more of a niche place than CC.net.
agreed, this is just a bonus and seems like a 2nd season with the way theyve played... and it gets us closer to the rockets season
OWA is an absurd board. JimR routinely spouts complete BS, and if anybody questions him it's like the end of the world. Earlier in the season when Willy was benched for Burke, he posted that he had received insider information stating that the move was made because of defense. The exact quote was that Willy was "killing the team" with his poor defensive play. Never mind that he wasn't, that he's a better defensive CFer than Burke, that he was struggling at the plate, that Burke was raking at the plate in limited appearences, and that the Astros offense was horrific. Even if you didn't watch Willy's play visually (he was doing fine), his range factor and zone rating bear out that he was far from hurting the team with his defense. ZOMG MATEMATICKS R TEH STOOPIAD LOL. Not to mention there is a board-wide sentiment of technophobia and a fear of mathematics. Arky Vaughn is the only poster with a brain over there. JimR and Noe are probably the worst. Every statistic except for RBIs is evil and computers are equally evil and should not be trusted. Nothing can be trusted except for actually going to every game and watching. Also, nobody in the Astros management has ever done anything wrong.
