Nothing would be sweeter than traveling to the stadium of the Cubs' choice & kicking their monkeylovin asses. **** 'em, bring it.
Milwaukee it is. **** you Selig, and **** you Drayton if you went along with it. This is an absolute travesty. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/
Wow, just ridiculous. If anything just play the games after the season if necessary. Way to fing go Drayton. If this ends up costing the Stros the series and a shot at the playoffs I hope Uncle Drayton takes some serious heat.
I guess you shoud **** the MLBPA & the Astros/Cubs players while you're at it, 'cause I'd imagine they had to agree to this too. "This could be the biggest series in the history of this season," says Drayton, in his usual understated verbiage.
Play in a retractable domed baseball stadium in Dallas... on wait, they were too idiotic not to build one.
Any stadium in baseball that's not within an hour of the "visiting" team. There are at least 14 baseball fields, besides Minute Maid Park and Wrigley Field, that are vacant tomorrow and could have hosted a game (potentially a DH). There's no way Miller Park is the only available option. The Astros had the union fight for them -- Atlanta and Toronto were discussed, as was Texas. But yet again, Selig gets his way, competitive fairness be damned.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Astros players had the union fighting for them for any location besides Milwaukee -- it apparently didn't work. I don't know if they can fight it much more than that.
Is "homecourt advantage" as important in baseball then football and basketball? Does the crowd get to the players in baseball as much as a opposing player going to the free throw line or a QB trying to audible on 3rd down? Just wondering, I always thought baseball was the least dependent on home court advantage. But it would be freaking sweet to kick Cubs ass in front of their fans, just like when we closed out the Cardinals on the last game of Busch Stadium in the NLCS (that was after the Pujols/Lidge homer).
I don't understand why they couldn't play these games at the end of the season; don't really think it's fair that they take away home games from the team. Then again, how fair would it be to play these at the end of the season, when we may still have something to play for but the Cubs have already clinched (and rest their starters). Milwaukee doesn't seem to much of a neutral site though...in any case if this team is as good as they have been playing, then they should be able to overcome this.
This is a mockery. Thanks, Bud Selig. I bet he has a Brewers tat on his a$$. At least it's only 2 games. The 3rd will be played at the end of the season if necessary. My recommendation would be that no fans are allowed in the stadium to make it neutral but we know how obviously ridiculous that is. No way will any owner pass up on more revenue, including our own. So, get ready for a crowd of Cubs and Brewers fans booing us during our next two "home" games.
this is absolutely ludicrous. It makes no sense to play the games in Milwaukee. Even if there is suffering here, if MMP is playable you play it here. It should not matter if there are fans or not here. I think it would be better for our guys to play at their own home instead of a stadium that is one hour away from the visitors home ball park.
What a complete f*** up by MLB. My thought was to play @ KC, but they're back home on Monday. I saw one great idea earlier today on chron.com...play em at the Dell Diamond in Austin. You could give evacuees free tickets and it would be a completely home crowd...albeit a smaller one. It would be standing room only and the players don't have to go too far from their families while they're stuck at home w/o power. But no. Instead, let's give the Cubs homefield advantage little more than an hour from THEIR home. It's not bad enough the city of Houston is going through the hell that was Hurricane Ike. Now the Houston Astros get screwed while in the middle of a pennant race by MLB and Selig. Thanks Bud.
Hadn't heard that the PA caved on this, cat, my bad. You see travesty, I see opportunity of historically significant proportions. Drayton thinks so too. Yep, **** selig, **** drayton, **** their chewing gum, **** Old Style, **** Cameron's dad for not letting him drive the car, **** their spaghetti sauce covered baseball, **** over-the-hill incoherent announcers, **** the Daleys, **** those 7 hippies, **** michael barrett, **** 'em all & ****in no regrets. Why don't we all just quit crying & root a little extra hard for the good guys to kick the **** out of the Cubs? Smoke 'em if you got 'em. YEEHAAARRGH
This quote pisses me off... http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-080913-chicago-cubs-houston-astros-milwaukee,0,3564336.story Go f*** yourself, Dempster. This ain't about you. "We handle adversity all the time"? "We'll be fine."? What about the Astros players, players families, employees, etc, etc? You didn't have to handle S***! GO ASTROS! KICK THE LIVING S*** OUT OF THE F***ING CUBS!
I like your attitude, Buck, but this just bites. I understand that there isn't much time left in the season and that it wouldn't be practicle to play up to 3 makeup games before the first round of the playoffs, but I can't get over the fact that the site chosen is commonly referred to as "Wrigley North". How could they possibly not have found a more neutral site? The only place more unreasonable would have been Wrigley, itself.
I was talking in general baseball terms in my post. And yes I did look up their home records before I posted. Their road records are pretty decent also. So my general question still applies.
