Red Mosquito

washing machine wrote:“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.“

Not gonna lie. I had dreams all through my wife’s pregnancy that our son would be born into an Astros mini dynasty when he came in September. Oh well. He’s here and this playoff run sure was fun having him around for it.

If you’re not first, you’re last. Go Mariners.

Bammer wrote:Go Mariners.

Astros set to beat, 2020

I was completely impartial during this WS. I’m glad it was so compelling and fun to watch. Game 7s are a beauty to behold. Sorry it sucks for you, Reid. Happy for all the DC fans. 2020 can’t get here soon enough. Go Twins!

Baseball, man. Hope to see you in the postseason next year, J.

What really stings about this World Series is that I know this Astros team was the heel this time around and I understand why. The baseball gods are just, and that sucks for Astros fans.

washing machine wrote:Baseball, man. Hope to see you in the postseason next year, J.

Ditto, buddy.

Cole will sign elsewhere

Springer will get chlamydia

Verlander will retire

Greinke will force a trade

Altuve will be a shell of his former self

Go Mariners 2020

One of those Astros related things is almost a certainty.

A’s and maybe Angels might give us a race in 2020, but I don’t see us losing the division for the next couple of years at least. Come September, it’s just a matter of postseason mettle. 2017 was magical, mostly because of team chemistry. I wonder if we’ll ever see an Astros team having that much fun together again. Seems like that was almost there but mostly missing this fall. Was Marwin the missing clubhouse piece?

Well fellow Astros fan(s?), the die has been cast and the court of public opinion has found our squad of (un)loveable losers sincerely wanting. There is no escaping the tweetstorms and the he said she saids of cheating allegations, so as fan(s?) here on RM, there's no choice to embrace the moniker of villain next season and beyond. Otherwise we just look like Draymond Green. That being said, it's imperative as a team full of villains and douches that we win another championship in this era. Otherwise, this team will be a laughingstock, just like we were a few years ago, only this time for less endearing reasons. Dark times in Houston Town. Nothing left to do but root root root for the heelstros. God bless Texas.

washing machine wrote:A’s and maybe Angels might give us a race in 2020, but I don’t see us losing the division for the next couple of years at least. Come September, it’s just a matter of postseason mettle. 2017 was magical, mostly because of team chemistry. I wonder if we’ll ever see an Astros team having that much fun together again. Seems like that was almost there but mostly missing this fall. Was Marwin the missing clubhouse piece?

Lolz

PHATJ wrote:

washing machine wrote:A’s and maybe Angels might give us a race in 2020, but I don’t see us losing the division for the next couple of years at least. Come September, it’s just a matter of postseason mettle. 2017 was magical, mostly because of team chemistry. I wonder if we’ll ever see an Astros team having that much fun together again. Seems like that was almost there but mostly missing this fall. Was Marwin the missing clubhouse piece?

Lolz

Fiers: is Fiers

Hinch: Leaves Fiers off 2017 World Series roster

Clubhouse (after every postseason game, win or lose):



*Flash forward to 2019*








Fiers:

you left out this picture of the treatment of women journalists in the astros' clubhouse in 2019

The Houston Asterisks are the New New England Patriots. Congratulations on a long and despised dynasty.

That facial hair is amazeballs and the Houston Asterisks is fantastic work (whoever came up with it)

i came up with it

Spoiler: show

NOW LET’S GET THE <BANG, BANG> W FOR TAUBMAN

Trevor Plouffe Says The Astros Allegedly Used An Earpiece And Their Bullpen Catcher To Cheat During The 2017 World Series When It Was Too Loud To Hear The Garbage Can Banging

https://www.barstoolsports.com/newyork/ ... qspN725PFU

Talking to myself about the Sugarland Skeeters. :/

Like everyone else I merely wish my team had done more cheating of its own.