Your not whinning man it is completly understandable. I am very upset as well. A majority us here are Astros fans and want to seem to do well. If Ike didn't occur not only am I certain there would of been no hitter, we might have won today. I am just personally not going to take anything away from what Zambrano did today. Clearly he did have a huge advantage but throwing a no hitter while only allowing one walk is remarkable, and I hate Zambrano more than any Cub, with the exception of probably Jim Edmonds. I hate the Cubs players and their fans. I think Bud Selig is a scumbag but what are you going to do about it. He is the worst commisioner in all of professional sports, and this type of move did not suprise me in the littlest. In my honest opinion he will do anything possible to draw high records this coming season so he is hoping and praying the Astros don't make it. He is hoping Cubs play the Red Sox in the World Series.
Richard Justice's thoughts: Now to be serious for a moment. This game never should have been played at this location. No way. No how. I don't want to hear how it was the only available venue. Bull. If this is the best MLB could do, they should have called the whole thing off. Bud Selig and Drayton McLane ought to be embarrassed to have asked a team in a pennant race, a team that has done amazing things, to fly all this way and play in front of 23,441 fans, virtually all of them cheering for the other team. Some of you will blame Bud Selig. I'm OK with that. He never, ever should have approved Miller Park. One guy wrote and said this decision proves Bud is trying to give the Brewers an unfair advantage. Look, I think the decision was dumb, but saying it's about Selig and the Brewers is even dumber than the decision. If I'm blaming one person, I'm starting with Drayton McLane. He was desperate to get those three home games against the Cubs and refused to believe the weather reports. He could have postponed the series Wednesday and still had time to move it to a real neutral site. Now the Phillies, Astros and Brewers are bunched together, a game in the loss column apart. After all the fighting and clawing the Astros finally have a legitimate chance to do something we'll all remember forever. Link: http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/archives/2008/09/bud_selig_and_d.html
Astros were listed in Vegas as 11 to 10 underdogs with the game in Miller park. They would have been something like 11 to 10 favorites in Minute Maid. The decision basically cost the Astros something like 10% off the bat. Just really sh***y luck for them and a huge downer for those interested in the wild card chase. Anyone think if a disaster happened in NYC they'd make the Yankees play at Fenway if it was the only venue open? LOL.
F*** Zambrano's effort and MLB. As rare as they are, tell me the conditions weren't almost ideal to make a team vulnerable to get no-hit? The only thing that'da make conditions worse was if one of the Astros players died during the storm. If the Astros would have played in a real neutral site or played in Arlington and no hit the Cubs, no I wouldnt complain. In fact it would have been a national feel good story of the Astros rallying for the victims of Ike and the storm ravaged city.
I understand why everyone is blaming Selig for this, but where is the blame for the f-ing owner? Drayton has clearly shown that he does not have the team's best interests in mind. Grow some cojones Drayton and stand up for your guys next time.
Listening to the Astro post-game interviews, it appears baseball is the last thing on their minds with the hurricane effects and all. In fact, with their minds obviously on the troubled situation in Houston...they have a built-in excuse to just throw in the towel and call it a season. It feels like the hurricane iked our season. This team is not focused on winning the wild card or baseball currently. Their focused on the same ***** a lot of you in Houston are focused on...when is the phone and power coming back on, what stores are open, and where can I go for my next tank of gas? Being away from home just makes them think of it all the more...because family is left behind dealing with it all. I guess we see what happens. They have a built-in excuse for playing losing baseball the rest of the way. The question is...how do they respond today and going forward? Can they get past all this bs and play focused, winning baseball? Did all that momentum we had completely vanish into thin air with Ike?
Yes it is true. But Houston will have their spirits high if our ball club makes it to the playoffs in another amazing run. Hurricane aside, I'd like them to play for our city. I thought I'd feel better this morning but the more I think about it the more it angers me.
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/...t_id=3479166&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou Bulls**t!! How hard is it to look at the weather reports and see if it's clear the next two days?!
Skip Bayless just got some respect from me as he outlined everything what was wrong with that game last night on 1rst and 10. Stephen A. Smith, well, always a douchebag. The Astros should have never got on that plane. What better protest then a forfeit.
Well...Cubs fans...and even their players...are completely discounting the venue location as having anything to do with being no-hit...which I would agree with if it were the lone factor. It's funny how none of them even mention anything about the hurricane effecting the players. All they are talking about is change of venue location didn't cause the no-hitter. Well...I agree with that if that were the lone factor...which it wasn't. But, that's all they wanted to throw out there as the factor. No acknowledgement from any of them on how the actual hurricane impacting the players' performance. I guess they think the players were above it all or something. We're talking about one team whose players were completely well-rested...and another team whose players just went through a hurricane and all that comes with it before, during, and after. All I'm saying is it would have been nice for either their coach or their players to acknowledge our players were dealing with situations they were not...and were not immune to it all all and above it. But, they won't even give us that. They just want it to be some "fair and square" situation or something...which clearly it wasn't. My only beef with the situation is they are talking like both these teams were in the same situation as far as having to change venues. The rest of it is completely dismissed by their side as having no influence. That said...it's over and we were no-hit. The record books don't have room for asterisks.
What I didn't understand was if it was a "home game" for the Astros, how come they were playing "Rally music" when the Cubs were up to bat....starting in the first inning !
There is only one just conclusion to this fiasco. The Cubs should go 0-for-the-rest-of-September and miss the playoffs, including being no-hit once by whatever scrub the Astros run out there and a couple more times by rookie call-ups or AAAA has-beens. The Astros should surpass Milwaukee for the division crown after finishing the season 10-2. Philadelphia should surpass Milwaukee for the wild card. Selig should get canned. All told, the only just conclusion for this is: Selig gets canned, the Brewers and sCrubs watch the Astros play meaningful baseball in October. Thank you and good night. (and screw you, Bud Selig.)
<BR> This is telling: Prior to the no-hitter*, a thread on a prominent Cubs forum begins with the details for that game and jokingly lists the venue as "Wrigley North." ProSportsDaily Let's hope this pisses off the team and gets them fired up to get some revenge. <BR>
Looking it up is easy. Predicting what will happen is far more difficult. The forecast there today calls for 40% chance of thunderstorms. So what's going to happen? No one knows. They had to decide Saturday night, when it was even more unclear. I would think there were some dry places in the country that could have been options, but unfortunately Atlanta didn't make a lot of sense.
One question. Why was there opposition to a day-night double-header in Milwaukee today? Why did the Astros HAVE to play last night? I think THAT should be explored more than anything else.
A day-night double-header in San Franciso. In Phoenix. In Tampa. In Arlington. It was total horse**** to play this in Milwaukee, and you and everybody with half a brain knows it. Houston should be awarded three extra home games next year. Better yet: Houston should be awarded draft picks for this fiasco. Or at least cash.
Well, with all the adversity the cubs had to go through during these trying times, they didn't want to compound the problem... Wait...that didn't sound right.
