I do. It was a day game vs the Reds in '89. I was working sales for my uncle's trucking company and stopped for lunch at Mama Hattie's in Humble (man, they had GREAT burgers) and the game was on. They gave up 14 runs in the first and ended up losing 18-2.
Well...I've been a fan longer than that so I'm sure I saw it. Or, rather, turned it off early. lol U gotta good memory! U got one of those photo-realistic memory there? Mmmm hmmm! Or, just a memorybly bad memoryby.
I took your idea and ran it series by series. I did it for Hou, Tex, Sea, Balt, Tor, and Tampa. Any team that was under .500 I gave the series to the six above 2-1. For teams 500+, if they were at home 2-1 on road 1-2. If 4 games, split it. Very unscientific method. In the end this is where I had everyone. 1. Baltimore 99-63 2. Texas 95-67 3. Minn 4. Tampa 95-67 5. Toronto 91-71 6. Seattle 91-71 ------------ 7. Houston 90-72 No idea who gets the 5/6 slots as they went 3-3 against each other. Since I calculated it everything when as I initially entered it except 1. Tampa went 3-0 instead of 2-1 against Colorado. +1 to their record above. 2. Texas went 0-2 vs. Arizona instead of 1-1. - 1 Neither of those change the seedings or who makes it. Be interested in seeing how this plays out. 7.
I did my exercise before Monday's games. I didn't do it series by series. I simply added total games vs +.500 teams and total games vs -.500 teams of Astros, Rangers, and Mariners. ( except vs each other). Then 50/50 W/L vs +.500 teams and 2/3 W vs -.500 teams Gave Astros 2/3 vs each. Then Mariners win ALW if they go 7-0, 6-1, or 5-2 vs Rangers. Rangers win ALW if they go 7-0, 6-1, or 5-2 vs Mariners. Astros win ALW if it ends up 4-3. Obviously Astros sweeping either series would help this potential outcome but this race is going to be close all the way to the end. A sweep vs Detroit sure would help.
I'm gonna chime in with a memory like that too. Early 2000...April 26...Enron Field is still new, and it's becoming clearer that our pitching staff is freaked out by it. I went to a day game vs the Cubs with Lima pitching. He got absolutely rocked. 13 hits and 12 runs in 5 innings. Afterward, Lima was complaining about the ballpark. On the heels of three straight division titles, it sucked...it felt like we couldn't win in our own ballpark. We dropped to 7-13 after that loss, and we gave up 13 runs the night before. Ouch. As an aside, those stories of our pitching staff that first year at the new park are a big part of why I loved Roy Oswalt so much. Just an absolute dog who didn't give an eff. Owned other teams in a ballpark that, to that time, seemed like it was gonna play way heavy towards offense.
So. That team meeting. Might be time for another one? Mama Hatties. Dude. I have some stories about that place. The original and also after they moved. That's actually the first place I ever got full on drunk...
So yeah....I was at that game yesterday. Surprised my boys on their birthday(s) by keeping them home from school and taking them. We were 1st row in right field between the H and the O on the Honda sign. Watch the replay and look for the dude in the Altuve jersey between the 2 blonde-headed twins. Man, Tuck's body language when Maldi came in to pitch...not good. Especially after he had to give up his body trying to catch that HR he gave up.
