the baseball gods and regiie sanders

where's the peeektures esse?

 

Reggie's curtain call really did piss me off, but, having been through 3 major sports-related injuries, I don't wish it on anyone.

But I'm not complaining that he might be out for a while...

After we were forced to go into the NLCS with a decimated rotation that didn't have Rocket and Roy until Games 3 & 4 last year, I think it's about time for another squad to have the injury bug.

 

i didn't think about reggie with this....

but freaking albert watching it go last night like that. wow. in a regular season game, that would warrant a plunk. i know he's a nice guy and everything...but put your damn head down and jog around the bases. you knew it was out. stop watching it with your little bravado walk down the baseline. freak.

 

agreed. Classless move by Albert and Sanders taking a curtain call in game one was a bit puzzling also. I know its the playoffs but I dont think the Astros will forget the Pujols incident.

 

Believe me, I hated it more than anyone when Sanders came back out and hated it EVEN MORE when Pujols gave that "I'm a bad@$$" look when he hit it. Then I thought about what would happen if Burke hits a HR in MMP and the fans cheer the way the StL fans did for a curtain call. I would definitely be more than happy to see Burke out doing that, or Berkman, or whoever. I also wouldn't be jeering if Biggio hits the next ball in the 1st inning into the Crawford Boxes and stood to admire it (although it's more than obvious he's not that kind of person.) Let's say, Mike Lamb does that. I would be happy that we're showing some attitude. MAybe Pujols did what he did as a way to try to pump his team up. I have seen nothing to complain about Pujol's attitude thus far in his career. In fact, I find it kind of entertaining when I saw him and Berkman starting a conversion with Lance on first base. They seem to enjoy the moment, and so should we. Whoever wins this series will get the last laugh, so GO ASTROS!

On the side note, I can't say I wasn't half cheering inside when Sanders went down. I can't say that I wasn't hoping for a playoff ending injury. However, that was a vicious fall from someone who gave it everything he got. The only explanation to why he "deserved" to fall on his back was the fact that he misplayed that ball and ended up having to jump, or his mal-intentioned attempt to create a Jose Canseco moment. However, I can't see how it could justify him getting hurt seriously. A guy's in a hot streak and he shows some attitude. I hope I won't see him in games 3, 4, nor 5 and hope the Astros win them all, but I would not wish for anything serious for Sanders. IN fact, I would be more than happy to see an Astros player give a curtain call (at a more appropriate time than the 1st inning of a game) and receive a standing ovation.

Yes, I'm tired of seeing each HR by the StL Cardinals being replayed 100 times each. I want to see the reaction to one of Houston's HRs. What irks me more is how Edmond's defensive play is the "play of the game" or whatever they called it. I would think it would be a play that got the Astros to where they are now. Oh well. Just hit them where it really hurts, Astros, and by that, I mean win the series!

 

I thought I was the only one who felt like this. Nice to know I wasn't alone. Bunch of cocky a-holes. I hate the cardinals almost as much as I hate the Mavs.

 

Curtain Call? What happened? I missed game 1 (live out of the country)

thanks . .

 

Great point. As I watched Berkman round the bases, you couldn't tell whether he had just flied out or hit the biggest grand slam in Astros history. And Ausmus just put his head down and started trotting once the ump signaled HR.

btw, "carlos burke" = genuis

 

i do think sanders got a lot cocky out there and was brought back to Earth when he crashed and burned. as far as pujols admiring his HR, i don't really have much of a problem with that. a lot of players do that godly stare when they pounce one and then kick into their homerun trot while flicking the bat like it weighs the same as a toothpick. sure, it pisses me off and comes across as arrogant. so what? it's still part of the game.

yes, the sanders curtain call was arrogant and cocky and all of that. i don't care how old he is or what he did last series. this is a new series and it was only the 1st inning of the 1st game.

somehow, if this guy was on our team and was doing really well, then i bet a curtain call in houston would have been welcome. we're just pissy because it's on the other team.

 

Reggie Sanders came out of the dugout and tipped his hat after his homerun in the first inning of game freaking ONE! Honestly, who comes out for a curtain call in the first inning of any game?

 

it's also part of the game to plunk someone who does that.

 

that's why the baseball gods got even with reggie in the outfield. it all has a way of working out.

 

I don't know why, but Reggie Sanders move didn't bother me. I thought/and hoped maybe he was basking in the limelight prematurely, but I looked at as him recognizing the fans appreciation. I wasn't that bothered.

Albert's little swagger thing after his homer, bothered me, but not that much. They were still losing, and there was just no call for it, but he didn't go on my most hated list for it.

 

i'm sure the cards fans were pissed when roy clinched his fist after the last out in the 7th. their probably b****ing and moaning about it in the cards forum. hehe

 

I like how Roy O was throwing high and inside to the righties all night, especially Sanders and Pujols... He also brushed Eckstein back with a 96MPH fastball to the face area because he was crowding the plate, I love that kid!

 

I'm not saying that the Astros would or should do that. I'm just saying that we wouldn't be mad at all if one of our players came out and tipped their cap. In fact, we would probably be cheering as well. St Louis Players are playing with the emotions that this is their last hurrah in the soon-to-be-demised Busch Stadium.

It's definitely past the borderline of cocky, but 1st inning or not, Reggie's HR was huge with the 2 pitchers on the mound to start that game, and Pujol's HR was huge in comeback efforts. Did that HR by pujols have game 7 of last year written all over it? I was hiding behind pillows when Edmonds was batting and struck out in the 5th and grounded out in the 7th.

All I'm saying is, I don't like the cardinals. I can pretty much say I hated them and the braves for causing so much problems. I just want to say that each team probably feels this way, only that their allegiance is elsewhere. The Astros has the class to not smirk when they field a ball, put out their chest when they hit a HR, or give a curtain call early in a game 1, but that doesn't mean we as fans won't cheer for that. We cheered when T-Mac nailed that shot in game 2 and we cheered when the Rockets were giving that weird 3-fingered signal. I'm sure the other team and their fans didn't enjoy that as well. However, winning silenced all that, as will none of us will care if the Astros pulls this off. There's no reason to wish that Sanders would break his back or flat out die. That's just a little extreme to share with the public

 

You're complaining about people watching HRs or responding to fans with curtain calls while you yourself are wishing injury on people. Wow, talk about karma.

 

I'm just assuming that 99% of the people that wishes people would break a back or wish for serious harm on anyone, sports related or not, must be lucky enough to have never experienced much physical pain in their lives.

I might scream for their heads during a game, but all in all, I can't imagine being happy for someone getting hurt seriously. I've gotten hurt enough times playing sports, from minor scratches to lingering injuries. As much as I've never had a major injury playing sports or anything in general, even those lingering stuff like a fractured finger is enough to frustrate a person into some panic mode. A broken back? That's something that sounds enough to paralyze a person for life....

EDIT: I was quoting in support of your response to those previous posts, btw.