Nice of her.
Sheās really sweet, and I like her lots. She doesnāt really care much about baseball, and did not grasp the gravity of her revelry.
āForgive her; she knows not what she did.ā
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So, why do the Astros fans not heckle the Yankees and Sox as cheaters when they are playing in Houston? Not the Houston way or something?
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G6 1986:
Headed to locker room for 9th grade football practice. Coach Dixon relays the score from the radio in the coach es office (8th inning, Knepper going strong, weāve got the lead). By the time we get done itās extras. I got home to find my sister working on math homework with a friend in the living room so Iām relegated to watching it on a 19" Curtis Mathis in an adjacent room.
Saw the Hatcher HR and of course the rest. Cried my eyes out. Had to stay hidden because I was embarrassed and didnāt want my sister and her friend to see me like that.
I still hate the 86 Mets. And I always will.
They heckled Mookie when he was here last month with āMookie cheatedā when he was in RF.
But, overall that just doesnāt seem like Houston behavior.
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I do not think Houston fans are in a position to heckle anyone.
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For me, 2019 G7 was the worst. I was at G4 in 2005 but they lost in 4 (6 run differential between all those games) but a G7 loss when you are up and your pitcher was dealing (to me at least) had me floating on hope river. I wasnāt taking anything for granted but damn, I didnāt want Greinke pulled.
I truly have had faith in him the whole time heās been an Astro. I know many of you didnāt have him on a list of greatest trades, but that trade still pumped a lot of confidence into the team that year. I also donāt think Greinke lost a game in the playoffs.
But, JV was greatest trade ever. He crossed the hump and helped get the ring. I donāt think we would have 2017 or 2019 without him.
And the Astros have been in the ALCS 4 straight years! We are blessed and I expect them there again this year.
Maybe thatās why itās not in our behavior. Karma seems to be frequent for Houston teams.
Indeed. I am keenly interested to see if there is an impact on all Astros pitchers not named Urquidy once MLB starts to police the sticky stuff issue.
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I had no problem with going to Harris in 2019. Greinke had gone farther than he ever had in Houston, and the last two batters were home run and walk. Harris was getting everyone out in the playoffs, and only a fluke and bad karma from the locker room drunk got him.
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This is me exactly. I can still feel the loss to the Mets in '86. I can also still feel the certainty of '19, game 7 with Grienke on the mound in the 5th inning. And what followed.
Greinke was so dominant I allowed myself some optimism, but I was very afraid of 2-3-4 in the 7th.
Certainly not the best Astros team, 2015 felt like one of those fluke years where the door was just kind of left open.
After the dark days of the rebuild (the lowest point of my fandom in any sport), 2015 was like mainlining Jolt Cola.
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I agree. Greinke had pitched well up to that point, but Harris had been the go-to guy to squash a pending rally. So good all postseason. He made a decent pitch, and bad luck stung him. Gerrit Cole can whine all he wants about not getting into that game, but going to Harris there in the middle of the 7th was absolutely a valid move.
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My low point in there was when they traded Lance Berkman. Not because I didnāt see it coming, or know that it was probably the right move, but because I knew what it meant: tearing it down and starting over. I knew the next few years were going to be hard to watch.
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The worst part of every rebuild is the knowledge that thereās no guarantee of a winner on the other end.
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It was absolutely open in 2015. They had their foot on the throats of the Royals and it was a weak field from there.
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and they blew Game 4.
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