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To Hoofbeat, Nacho, SMOO POWER and any other Astro fans out there, the day has arrived. Let's get off to a great start in Game 1 against the Bravos! I'm flattered that several of the ESPN columnists and others are picking us in this series, but it is giving me a sense of real foreboding. When people start "expecting" things of our Astros, a collapse is usually not far behind! I still can't forget the three times these guys killed us in the first round.

Still I feel good this morning. If we can just get those bats going! Maybe Bagwell does something dramatic in the post season a la Kirk Gibson. Or Billy Hatcher!

The 'stros pitching is probably the best in baseball, from the starters to the closer and in between. The problem as everyone knows is hitting. It is hot and cold. If they can hit in this series they should win it; if not see you next year.

Talking about the 'stros on an SMU football board. How low has the football team sunk?

Pretty darn low. Just trying to add a little "sunshine".

Astros???


Go CARDINALS!!!!!


(I'm wearing my STL tee shirt right now. Albeit under my Stars jersey. Heck, the Cards played yesterday and again tomorow - but today, hockey season begin!)

Phil Garner is an old huntin' buddy. I wish him the best.

Go Astros!

Although I grew up in California, I've always been an Astros fan (Rockets and Oilers...err Texans as well). I was born in Houston but moved to the left coast when I was two. My brother became all about LA teams and to be different I stuck with my home town teams.

I agree that our pitching might take us to the promise land, but nothing is ever easy in Clutch City. Just like every other year we've made the playoffs I will make the trip to H-town this sat and sun for the games. Glad to know there are other Houston sports fans on the board.

Go 'Stros

SmooPower, nice to see that Avatar (I think it went away for a while?). Those are my four favorite teams as well.

When the Senators moved to Texas, I adopted the St. Louis Cardinals as my team because I always liked their style of play. I now have the Nats, but St. Louis is my #2, so I guess I'll root for them. But if they get to the Series against the White Sox, I might be torn. The White Sox are trying to shed that Shoeless Joe Jackson -Black Sox curse. Which brings me to a serious question. Why do the White Sox wear black socks?

EastStang wrote:When the Senators moved to Texas, I adopted the St. Louis Cardinals as my team because I always liked their style of play. I now have the Nats, but St. Louis is my #2, so I guess I'll root for them. But if they get to the Series against the White Sox, I might be torn. The White Sox are trying to shed that Shoeless Joe Jackson -Black Sox curse. Which brings me to a serious question. Why do the White Sox wear black socks?

You know, the ONLY reason I am in anyway partial to the Sox is because of Shoeless Joe.

I love the whole myths around Joe Jackson... wonderfully captured in both the book Shoeless Joe and the movie based on said book, Field of Dreams. But I will note that I became a Joe fan before those works came out... as a kid baseball was my favorit sport. I used to read everything about it. And by far, the stories surrounding Shoeless Joe are some of the coolest. (And most tragic. As per the tragedy, see Eight Men Out - as it remains as faithful to the truth as a movie can be.)


But again. Go Cards!!!!

My family is all from St. Louis. In fact everyone in my family was born in St. Louis except for me (only true Texan in the family... well I now have a niece and she was born in Colorado).