i was sitting about 10 rows behind those guys. i could not believe that guy interfered with that ball...and couldn't believe how long it took to identify him to kick him out of the game.
Did the guy reach over the fence to catch the ball? From what I could tell he didn't. That being the case, why would he get kicked out?
He did reach over the fence but his glove "knocked" pence's away. Crazy thing that a kid (15-16 years old) wearing red sox stuff claimed my bro stole the ball from him when my brother just got it off the ground. Junction jack felt bad for the sox fan and tossed him one of his soft balls... It was a mad scramble and some guy offered my brother one grand for the ball. Probably one of the many fans screaming for him to throw it back... Which is a "tradition" the astro fans took from wrigley
I find it hard to believe that some fans get so caught up in the "throw it back" moment that they actually do. When Clemens and Maddox faced each other a few years ago (2 300 game winners) a "fan" actually threw back a HR ball that Clemens gave up rather than keeping a souvenir of that relatively historic game. At least your brother had the good sense to keep an ARod HR ball. A Twins' fan threw back an ARod HR ball a couple of weeks ago. One of the Minnesota sports writers did a column on it. The fan almost immedaitely regretted what he had done.
I love the "throw it back" concept. The only way I wouldn't do it is if it was a record-breaking ball that would bring in some serious loot.
Most of your "storied Yankee tradition" occured when pitchers hit. You know...real baseball not this lame DH crap.
Aawwww, the poor *baseball* player hurt because he had to actually play *baseball*. I heard the "highlights" in the truck a few minutes ago. I'm not sure what I'm more disgusted with: our lame pitching, the collapse of Roy Oswalt, or the fact the Yankee Freaking Stadium seemed to suddenly have been built at Crawford and Texas. I was never really a Yankee hater until I heard that crap. My Astros are getting pummelled at home, and a bunch of sellout Houstonians are cheering that crap? Holy crap. Bush. Sellouts. Two thumbs down; two *other* fingers up. Screw Houstonians cheering for the Yankees, screw the Yankees, screw the AL, and screw the DH. And screw idiot 14-year-old Yankee fans b****ing because a baseball player got hurt playing baseball. Running the bases is part of the game. Waaaaaaa.
Just got home from work and saw we lost by thirteen runs. I'm not surprised the Yankees put up some serious numbers but no way we shouldn't be scoring any runs. We have to many offensive threats to be scoreless in games. But to why I made this post; Oswalt gives up more runs than innings he pitches, again. Another bad outing by Oswalt from what I see from the stat book. I didn't watch the game so I don't know how many are earned and how many aren't but seven runs hurts. My second significant point, Astros are now down 12 games from the first place Cubbies and .5 games from dead last place in the division that considered the worst division in baseball. Bright side if you can find any is we have a lot of baseball still left in front of us. We have proven in a short period of time that we can play, we can win, and we were two games from first at one point. The team needs to find a medium between amazing and awful. We don't need to necessarily sweep every series but win series should be the main goal. The talent is there but we just need to bring it together for more than a few games at a time. Doctor, please check out Oswalt for me.
Why in the hell did Cecil bench Lance today? You have a sellout crowd wanting to see their superstar, and he sits???
