[World Series] Cards vs. Tigers...Who do you think will win?

yeah there is. I'm griping all over the place. Sorry.

 

what a craptacular post season

 

I was thinking . .d*mn Peston got a ring . .. and the Astros didn't
I guess the Astros could not win . . but i guess it better than
Beltran getting a ring

Rocket River

 

Well if the trend continues it should be the Astros winning in five next year.

2004 STL swept by the Sox
2005 Astros swept by the Sox
2006 Cards win in five over Tigers
2007 Astros win in five over ?????

My wife's team has now won two titles in my lifetime, hardly seems fair.

 

Don't blame Preston. He specifically asked to be signed to the Astros. WE waived him. Congrats, Preston. You are the only Card that deserves it.

 

I'm so glad baseball is over. Is there anything more long and drawn out than the MLB baseball season? They seriously need to shorten the season. Spring training starts in March and the season ends in October.

Football is the greatest and basketball is about to start. This is the best time of year IMO.

 

Obviously you don't live in Houston. Baseball playoffs are always fantastic if you are there. From 86, to 97 and on, baseball is a great game.

While I may agree that 162 games might be too long, you wouldn't be able to maintain the records any other way. Plus, during baseball, you typically have a game to watch every day.

My favorite is football, though. There are so few games, that every game has an impact, unlike baseball.

As one baseball great once said: "Every season you are going to win 60 games, and lose 60 games. What you do with the other 42 makes or breaks you."

 

I've lived in Houston my entire life. What does the playoffs have to do with a long, drawn out season? If the season was cut down to 130 games, then the playoffs would still be the playoffs, right? i'm not denying that the playoffs are great, especially when your team is in it.

And this IMO is why baseball will never be as popular as football is now. There are too many games, each game doesn't mean as much. You can slump and then still be OK. Every game in football means so much, therefore more fun and suspensefull to watch.

I wrote my response above before I read this one, so I see we agree here. lol

I'm all for shortening the season, but I doubt they will ever do it. I guess the records are somewhat important and more importantly, owners making money trumps all.

 

What the hell is the difference between 130 and 162? If you want to shorten the season, be a man about it.

Ahem, baseball is more popular in Houston right now than football. That said, if every sport only played 16 reg. season games, we'd all have a lot of idle time on our hands.

My son's name is Derrick...

It all looks at how you think. I can get into an Astros game for $6. I can get into a Texans game for $50. At least sports fans get to enjoy some sports venue, no matter the income.

 

you don't understand baseball.


i'm depressed the season is over. have to wait till april. i always hate the last out of the season.

 

Well, I guess it was their turn to pull off the unbelievable. I don't think too many people thought St. Louis would be the ones left standing. I still don't think their that great of a team but they did step up at all the right times in the post-season in both batting and pitching. It doesn't help when Detroit basically gift wraps the whole thing with all their mistakes...especially pitcher fielding errors. I did have a feeling that when the Astros came up short with yet another miracle run at the end of the season...the Cardinals we're going to go all the way. The Cardinals showed that no matter how bad you play at the end of the season...if you get past that and go on a run of playing good baseball, then good things will happen.

It still doesn't change my opinion that I think the Astros are better than the Cardinals and would have beaten them with Roger, Andy, and company in a repeat post-season match-up had we made the playoffs.

I'm glad that it wasn't an AL team that won it or any Chicago, Detroit, or NY team. If we can keep the trophy out of their hands every year, then I'm happy. The biggest factors to me are that the AL didn't win it and the Braves/Cubs/Mets didn't win it. The Cards...I'm okay with that because they have been playing first place baseball for several seasons now and they deserve it...as hard as it is for a lifelong Astros fan to admit. I just hope they fall and fall hard next season. I'm sick of them in the top spot. But, the Astros future prospects are looking more and more bleak...especially if we lose Roger and roll out a similarly morbid offensive line-up with the likes of Biggio, Ausmus, and Everett in the order. Yikes!

 

Here, here. I wish the freakin offseason was shorter, not the regular season.



And for those that think football is more exciting. No other sport can an entire game hinge on one swing of the bat.

 

I love both baseball and football and for completely different reasons. The sports are completely different. The Astros really missed a golden opportunity this year. The front office needs to finally decide are they going with aging veterans or are they going to turn it over to the next generation. I am personally ready for a full blown youth movement, especially in the starting rotation.

 

splain please

 

Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.

Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring.

In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you'd know the reason for this custom.

Now, I've mentioned football. Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.

I enjoy comparing baseball and football:

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.

Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up?

In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.

In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.

Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.

Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.

Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.

In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.

And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:

In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

 

You got that from something.

In mine own eyes, I'd sell my livelihood had the Oilers won a Superbowl. Until recently, as in 97, the Astros were an afterthought, other than the 86 series. After that, my biggest thing was seeing Olajuwon getting a ring, so I turned to Basketball. Stern needs to go. He's let the players get their way too much, and I've seen tons of fans become disenchanted with the sport once we lost Barkley and Olajuwon.

As much fun as it is to see Yao and T-Mac, I defy anyone here to say it means nearly as much as our (basically) homegrown boy Olajuwon winning everything.

As Houstonians, we don't want to "buy" our championships. We want to "earn" them. Which is why everyone was behind the "Luv Ya Blue" days. Which is why we all screamed when Olajuwon finally got the recognition he deserved. And it was why the fans demanded that Bagwell was the DH in the World Series, whether it made sense, or not.

We are a town built on our hometown boys, and we live and die by them.

 

good try. baseball is beautiful because it exists within its own univesrse . outs=time. time=existence. constructed measurment of the aformntioned=nada, doodoo.

 

hi, sorry.




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