Astros officially pulled the plug on the life-support last night.
Texans start off with two of the most uninspired losses I can remember.
My fantasy team just got dropped by a meaningless interception on the very last play of the monday night game.
Still in good spirits.
Stay strong Houston. Our Astros will field an even more mediocre team next year, and we will reluctantly cheer them on. The Texans probably have a few more years of crappy-ness in them, but thats ok. We will have our day in the sun. We will!!
(please don't let that day be when I'm like 76)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Someone tore out the silver lining.
I'm not even sure I'm totally calmed from yesterday, but I'll tell you what... That was demoralizing. Was anyone playing besides Slaton? Didn't look like it to me.
Some thoughts that I would like to elaborate on, but nothing but garbage would come out of my mouth:
1. Why do we always save our worst performances for the Titans?
2. The Titans absolutely dominate the Texans year after shitty year.
3. Andre Johnson dropping 2 touchdown passes.
4. Matt Schaub? (this isn't a rhetorical question, this is a question I pose in 10 years after he's been forgotten)
5. I want to believe we are going to be fighting for something this year, but we look like a #1 pick team again.
So week three and the '08 blog-rivarly goes something like this:
Texans look terrible, go 0-2
Titans look pretty good and go 3-0
Titans beat Texans in first of two meetings.
Texans have their work cut out for them.
Some thoughts that I would like to elaborate on, but nothing but garbage would come out of my mouth:
1. Why do we always save our worst performances for the Titans?
2. The Titans absolutely dominate the Texans year after shitty year.
3. Andre Johnson dropping 2 touchdown passes.
4. Matt Schaub? (this isn't a rhetorical question, this is a question I pose in 10 years after he's been forgotten)
5. I want to believe we are going to be fighting for something this year, but we look like a #1 pick team again.
So week three and the '08 blog-rivarly goes something like this:
Texans look terrible, go 0-2
Titans look pretty good and go 3-0
Titans beat Texans in first of two meetings.
Texans have their work cut out for them.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Favorite Minute Maid Park Moment!
Ok. I know this is my 4th post for a Friday, and I probably wont even post again until Monday.
But!
I saw this post over on Deadspin about peoples favorite stories and moments from Yankee Stadium, before it gets torn down. I know Minute Maid isn't going anywhere, but I started getting all nostalgic so I wanted to share mine.
Please, anyone that reads, feel free to share theres. It's fun to hear other people's stories about that type of thing.
Astros clinch wildcard on game 161. It's early October 2004. The Astros are on fire, and playing a reeling Colorado Rockies squad that didn't give a SHIATE about playing baseball anymore. We are either tied, or a half game behind the Giants at the time, and they are playing the Dodgers. No one in our group was 21, so we didn't get to enjoy the 7 dollar beer festivities yet, but the game wasn't that great. It was that scoreboard we were watching. We must have been up 8-3 or so, and the Giants were winning their game against the Dodgers 3-0 in the ninth. "Fuck man! The Giants are going to win!"
"HEY THEY PULLED OUT THE 0 FOR THE DODGERS!!!"
"HOLY FUCK SOMEONE HIT A GRAND SLAM!!!!!!!!"
*crowd goes utterly insane*
That someone, my friends. Was Steve Finley.
Yes. That Steve Finley.
Your years here, you were a pretty good ball player. But Thanks for blowing that grand slam in the stands that year. Fucken. A.
But!
I saw this post over on Deadspin about peoples favorite stories and moments from Yankee Stadium, before it gets torn down. I know Minute Maid isn't going anywhere, but I started getting all nostalgic so I wanted to share mine.
Please, anyone that reads, feel free to share theres. It's fun to hear other people's stories about that type of thing.
Astros clinch wildcard on game 161. It's early October 2004. The Astros are on fire, and playing a reeling Colorado Rockies squad that didn't give a SHIATE about playing baseball anymore. We are either tied, or a half game behind the Giants at the time, and they are playing the Dodgers. No one in our group was 21, so we didn't get to enjoy the 7 dollar beer festivities yet, but the game wasn't that great. It was that scoreboard we were watching. We must have been up 8-3 or so, and the Giants were winning their game against the Dodgers 3-0 in the ninth. "Fuck man! The Giants are going to win!"
"HEY THEY PULLED OUT THE 0 FOR THE DODGERS!!!"
"HOLY FUCK SOMEONE HIT A GRAND SLAM!!!!!!!!"
*crowd goes utterly insane*
That someone, my friends. Was Steve Finley.
Yes. That Steve Finley.
Your years here, you were a pretty good ball player. But Thanks for blowing that grand slam in the stands that year. Fucken. A.
Seen this?
Makes me sad because the song would be cool if it was about the Astros. Houston needs a cultural icon (not Paul Wall please) to do something like this. Still like Vedder though.
Edit: Fuck the Cubs.
Re: Cowboys v Eagles
Joe (cowboy fan) on the subject of offenses:
"The Eagles offense is horrible"
I would like to give this the most sarcastic 'THAT IS SO TRUE' that is possible. Did I see that score right, or did they put up 37 against the Cowboys? Are you going to write that one up as a defensive blunder on your own team?
No. The Eagles offense is not horrible. They aren't as good as the Cowboys, but the Eagles offense is not horrible.
On another Eagles related note: Kellner got totally fucked by that DeSean Jackson throwing the ball away thing. I think he would have been tied had he gotten the 4 points for the McNabb TD. Instead Westbrook got the TD, and well... That screwed me because I was playing Adam who had Westbrook!
And to all those sportscasters (read: Jay faggot Mariotti) that say Fantasy Football is stupid. Fuck you, i've never enjoyed watching relatively meaningless games ever before in my life. Rooting for the 49ers? What has this world turned to???
"The Eagles offense is horrible"
I would like to give this the most sarcastic 'THAT IS SO TRUE' that is possible. Did I see that score right, or did they put up 37 against the Cowboys? Are you going to write that one up as a defensive blunder on your own team?
No. The Eagles offense is not horrible. They aren't as good as the Cowboys, but the Eagles offense is not horrible.
On another Eagles related note: Kellner got totally fucked by that DeSean Jackson throwing the ball away thing. I think he would have been tied had he gotten the 4 points for the McNabb TD. Instead Westbrook got the TD, and well... That screwed me because I was playing Adam who had Westbrook!
And to all those sportscasters (read: Jay faggot Mariotti) that say Fantasy Football is stupid. Fuck you, i've never enjoyed watching relatively meaningless games ever before in my life. Rooting for the 49ers? What has this world turned to???
Say good night. Tomorrow will bring better fortunes.
Heres a link to a google image search for the word fail.
Every picture listed is dedicated to the Astros play since Ike. I'm not blaming these guys for anything. Hey, you can't live in a lie forever, and those guys weren't a 14 of 15 game winner type of team. What I'm referring to as fail is the opportunity lost. Had we ---and before I say this, I know that baseball is much different than a sport where guts can factor in a lot more like football. I know guts and sheer will aren't going to help you hit a Zambrano heater--- stared adversity in the face, beat it with a fucking stick, and shoved it up the whole NL's ass... This would have been a national story. One we would tell our kids, and grandchildren. One almost as great as the Katrina/Saints thing (and even Houston had probably the most generous part in that whole thing, but who talks about that right?). Had we flown into Milwaukee and ripped 2 from the Cubs, and had gone to Florida riding a ridiculous high, the Astros would get a ton more positive attention in the national media.
Now? We are perceived as cry babies who blame a hurricane for our lost season.
Ike was rough on the area, but shouldn't be a factor in the season. Theres never one reason to blame anything in a 162 game season. If you're a BoSox fan, you can't even blame Bucky Dent's home run for that season... because weren't the Red Sox up by 8 games at the end of August?
The good thing about being an Astros fan, and all my friends with me that are Astros fan: Every year we honestly think its possible to win it all, and im looking forward to next year in our push for a world series. Even if I know in my heart of hearts its bullshit, I still like knowing it could happen.
Let's do it in '09!
Every picture listed is dedicated to the Astros play since Ike. I'm not blaming these guys for anything. Hey, you can't live in a lie forever, and those guys weren't a 14 of 15 game winner type of team. What I'm referring to as fail is the opportunity lost. Had we ---and before I say this, I know that baseball is much different than a sport where guts can factor in a lot more like football. I know guts and sheer will aren't going to help you hit a Zambrano heater--- stared adversity in the face, beat it with a fucking stick, and shoved it up the whole NL's ass... This would have been a national story. One we would tell our kids, and grandchildren. One almost as great as the Katrina/Saints thing (and even Houston had probably the most generous part in that whole thing, but who talks about that right?). Had we flown into Milwaukee and ripped 2 from the Cubs, and had gone to Florida riding a ridiculous high, the Astros would get a ton more positive attention in the national media.
Now? We are perceived as cry babies who blame a hurricane for our lost season.
Ike was rough on the area, but shouldn't be a factor in the season. Theres never one reason to blame anything in a 162 game season. If you're a BoSox fan, you can't even blame Bucky Dent's home run for that season... because weren't the Red Sox up by 8 games at the end of August?
The good thing about being an Astros fan, and all my friends with me that are Astros fan: Every year we honestly think its possible to win it all, and im looking forward to next year in our push for a world series. Even if I know in my heart of hearts its bullshit, I still like knowing it could happen.
Let's do it in '09!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
On with the show.
We can continue on with the Texans/Titans rivarly thing this week.
They play each other in Tennessee also.
There is no excuses from this hurricane shit. Not even for the Astros, but lets not go there.
If the Texans go to Nashville and stink the place up, there is none of this 'hurricane hangover' stuff. I know its terrible, and these guys have had a tough time with everything, but NAY! You are professional ball players. This is why you get paid that much money.
No Vince Young? That sucks. Kerry Collins is looking MUCH better than VY and that looks even worse for the Texans chances.
The Texans looked absolutely horrible against the Steelers. I really hope there is an explanation for that, and its not that we are just terrible. Look. It has been 6 years since we started. If we wait too much longer, we are no longer just a bad team. We are going to be a perennial loser such as the Lions/Cardinals. Houston does not deserve that. It's not our fault fucking Bud Adams moved our team away that actually had a history of winning.
One day the world will flip on itself. On that day the Cowboys and Titans will be 3-13 teams and the Texans will be 12-13 win teams. Here's hoping for that day to be sooner rather than later.
Get em Texans!
They play each other in Tennessee also.
There is no excuses from this hurricane shit. Not even for the Astros, but lets not go there.
If the Texans go to Nashville and stink the place up, there is none of this 'hurricane hangover' stuff. I know its terrible, and these guys have had a tough time with everything, but NAY! You are professional ball players. This is why you get paid that much money.
No Vince Young? That sucks. Kerry Collins is looking MUCH better than VY and that looks even worse for the Texans chances.
The Texans looked absolutely horrible against the Steelers. I really hope there is an explanation for that, and its not that we are just terrible. Look. It has been 6 years since we started. If we wait too much longer, we are no longer just a bad team. We are going to be a perennial loser such as the Lions/Cardinals. Houston does not deserve that. It's not our fault fucking Bud Adams moved our team away that actually had a history of winning.
One day the world will flip on itself. On that day the Cowboys and Titans will be 3-13 teams and the Texans will be 12-13 win teams. Here's hoping for that day to be sooner rather than later.
Get em Texans!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Ha ha
This is just awesome
Stay classy, Cubs fans
Let me get this straight. Houston is ravaged by a hurricane and without power and ways to communicate. The Astros have to convene at Minute Maid Park early in the morning Sunday and navigate through the damage to fly to Milwaukee to play a "home" game against the Chicago Cubs. It was a stressful time for the Astros, whose homes were damaged, who had to leave their families behind and in the dark while wondering about the well-being of friends and relatives.
So what do Cubs fans do when the Astros take the field at Miller Park? They boo them. Nice going, Cubs fans. Most of America knew your true colors, and you just showed it once again. Not surprising. Maybe there's a reason you've been losers for 100 years. It's called karma. I'm sure if your fine city had been ravaged by two consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures, the fans of Houston would be more kind.
I just can't wait to see how the Cubs will blow it this year.
I should have just waited to post my opinion and linked his. He said it better.
Stay classy, Cubs fans
Let me get this straight. Houston is ravaged by a hurricane and without power and ways to communicate. The Astros have to convene at Minute Maid Park early in the morning Sunday and navigate through the damage to fly to Milwaukee to play a "home" game against the Chicago Cubs. It was a stressful time for the Astros, whose homes were damaged, who had to leave their families behind and in the dark while wondering about the well-being of friends and relatives.
So what do Cubs fans do when the Astros take the field at Miller Park? They boo them. Nice going, Cubs fans. Most of America knew your true colors, and you just showed it once again. Not surprising. Maybe there's a reason you've been losers for 100 years. It's called karma. I'm sure if your fine city had been ravaged by two consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures, the fans of Houston would be more kind.
I just can't wait to see how the Cubs will blow it this year.
I should have just waited to post my opinion and linked his. He said it better.
Monday, September 15, 2008
You stay classy, Chicago.
What is it?
Was there not enough death caused by the Hurricane to get any sympathy (we don't want it by the way, but any fucking decency would be nice)?
Was it because we're not making it easy enough on you by playing in your backyard, with a team that is most likely dead tired. A team worried about their homes and families instead of this game?
Or is it because the absolute trash your city breeds are just fucked up?
Booing a team when they take the field after all this that happened this weekend? Shouldn't you guys be fucking praising the Astros for this?
I guess I'm semi-hypocritical here, but It's not like I'm jumping for joy when Tom Brady gets hurt, or Katrina wrecks on New Orleans, or god forbid something terrible happens to the city of Chicago.
Was there not enough death caused by the Hurricane to get any sympathy (we don't want it by the way, but any fucking decency would be nice)?
Was it because we're not making it easy enough on you by playing in your backyard, with a team that is most likely dead tired. A team worried about their homes and families instead of this game?
Or is it because the absolute trash your city breeds are just fucked up?
Booing a team when they take the field after all this that happened this weekend? Shouldn't you guys be fucking praising the Astros for this?
I guess I'm semi-hypocritical here, but It's not like I'm jumping for joy when Tom Brady gets hurt, or Katrina wrecks on New Orleans, or god forbid something terrible happens to the city of Chicago.
Crosby, Stills, & Splash
Donovan said:
How do you feel about an angry post competition? Who can be more outraged and pissed off about the Astros having to play two 'home games' in Milwaukee?
You win this easily. I'm not even mad. Mainly because the Astros are pissing me off more trying to do this wildcard thing. A while back I alluded (is that right, can you allude to the future?) to the whole 'what if they run for the playoffs, and never fix the team' thing. This is Drayton's excuse to allow Ed Wade to be Ed Wade, and we spiral farther and farther down the toilet.
Heres something I've heard over the last 2 weeks.
Astros are the best team since the all-star break!
Are we? I don't feel like looking up stats or anything, but they don't look like the best team. I know they are winning, and giving people hope and all this. But this team? You put this team up against another playoff team for 3-5 games? Escaping even a first round series against the Diamondbacks/Dodgers would be catching some serious lightning in a bottle.
Playing in Milwaukee? Well... Why the fuck Milwaukee, isnt that like an hour away from Chicago? Couldn't find a more neutral site? Cubs fans are lucky football season started and my evil eye of Mordor is fixated on the cowboys. That no hit last night, after this blunder of a decision to give the Cubs 2 more home games (basically), would normally make me want to kill small children on the North side of Chicago.
Two games back. Never thought I would say that this year. Listen guys... here's what you need to do. 1. Ride this season out and win if you can keep winning. 2. MAKE SERIOUS PLANS TO FIX THE TEAM OVER THE NEXT FEW SEASONS. I love the fact that you guys aren't playing meaningless games, but the team is no good. I can't watch guys like Backe, Bourne, and Wolf and be optimistic about the future.
So yeah. I'm sure you can more than match that anger. Fuck the Cubs though. Especially Derek Lee. He can't be that good of a person can he? I bet hes a closet case pedofile that likes to beat his mother or something. Ok maybe not, but I hate when players on teams I hate be nice classy human beings. They are all suppose to be the evil bad guys right?
How do you feel about an angry post competition? Who can be more outraged and pissed off about the Astros having to play two 'home games' in Milwaukee?
You win this easily. I'm not even mad. Mainly because the Astros are pissing me off more trying to do this wildcard thing. A while back I alluded (is that right, can you allude to the future?) to the whole 'what if they run for the playoffs, and never fix the team' thing. This is Drayton's excuse to allow Ed Wade to be Ed Wade, and we spiral farther and farther down the toilet.
Heres something I've heard over the last 2 weeks.
Astros are the best team since the all-star break!
Are we? I don't feel like looking up stats or anything, but they don't look like the best team. I know they are winning, and giving people hope and all this. But this team? You put this team up against another playoff team for 3-5 games? Escaping even a first round series against the Diamondbacks/Dodgers would be catching some serious lightning in a bottle.
Playing in Milwaukee? Well... Why the fuck Milwaukee, isnt that like an hour away from Chicago? Couldn't find a more neutral site? Cubs fans are lucky football season started and my evil eye of Mordor is fixated on the cowboys. That no hit last night, after this blunder of a decision to give the Cubs 2 more home games (basically), would normally make me want to kill small children on the North side of Chicago.
Two games back. Never thought I would say that this year. Listen guys... here's what you need to do. 1. Ride this season out and win if you can keep winning. 2. MAKE SERIOUS PLANS TO FIX THE TEAM OVER THE NEXT FEW SEASONS. I love the fact that you guys aren't playing meaningless games, but the team is no good. I can't watch guys like Backe, Bourne, and Wolf and be optimistic about the future.
So yeah. I'm sure you can more than match that anger. Fuck the Cubs though. Especially Derek Lee. He can't be that good of a person can he? I bet hes a closet case pedofile that likes to beat his mother or something. Ok maybe not, but I hate when players on teams I hate be nice classy human beings. They are all suppose to be the evil bad guys right?
Friday, September 12, 2008
We're all going to die.
This is my last post to the world.
It seems there is a storm in the Gulf that will bring death tolls similar to the holocaust.
So I will spend my last ever post talking about
Football! Fuck yea!
My kickoff weekend didn't turn out really how I wanted it to. I woke up in good spirits, ready to watch a (hopefully) good game with the Texans v Steelers. What happened? My dad said he had to watch the nascar race. ---TIMEOUT---
On a way off the track side note here. Fuck Nascar. Seriously. What the fuck is the sport good for? I've stayed more focused listening to an AutoCAD seminar for 6 hours. How do you not fall asleep to the hum of those engines and the guys with the fake accents yelling about lane changes? I missed the first game of the year because of that?
Ok. Anyways. It was real fun listening to Eric's comments in IRC that went something like:
Eric: lol parker in the endzone
Eric: dude parker in the endzone again, fuck you joe
Eric: throw it to hinez god damnit
Eric: LOL HINEZ TD
So Jonathan gets the edge this week, because the Titans did win (how the fuck by the way?). My consolation prize? VY is the talk of the town. Arod style! Come on fat cheeks, stop crying. How does the millions of dollars taste? the fame? the fact that you are a starting quarterback for an NFL team... fuck you.
You know what else makes me want to jump into a fucking volcano? A fantasy football tie. How do you fucking tie. Now I'm 0-0-1. Wonderful. Hey Bulger. Have fun on the bench you worthless fuck. Three points?
I'd also like to thank you Cleveland. Could you have made it any easier for those faggots? Although I am hoping that this gives them a false sense of superiority, and Philadelphia takes them out on Monday. Even with the injuries, I think philly shouldn't be just straight disregarded from people's outlook. In March if I woulda said the Rays would be winning the East you'd laugh at me right? Shit happens. And I hope that 'shit' happens to the Cowboys. And by shit I mean not even make the playoffs. And I like starting sentences off with And. And im pretty sure that is a bad way of writing.
So yeah. I'll see you guys in hell.
It seems there is a storm in the Gulf that will bring death tolls similar to the holocaust.
So I will spend my last ever post talking about
Football! Fuck yea!
My kickoff weekend didn't turn out really how I wanted it to. I woke up in good spirits, ready to watch a (hopefully) good game with the Texans v Steelers. What happened? My dad said he had to watch the nascar race. ---TIMEOUT---
On a way off the track side note here. Fuck Nascar. Seriously. What the fuck is the sport good for? I've stayed more focused listening to an AutoCAD seminar for 6 hours. How do you not fall asleep to the hum of those engines and the guys with the fake accents yelling about lane changes? I missed the first game of the year because of that?
Ok. Anyways. It was real fun listening to Eric's comments in IRC that went something like:
Eric: lol parker in the endzone
Eric: dude parker in the endzone again, fuck you joe
Eric: throw it to hinez god damnit
Eric: LOL HINEZ TD
So Jonathan gets the edge this week, because the Titans did win (how the fuck by the way?). My consolation prize? VY is the talk of the town. Arod style! Come on fat cheeks, stop crying. How does the millions of dollars taste? the fame? the fact that you are a starting quarterback for an NFL team... fuck you.
You know what else makes me want to jump into a fucking volcano? A fantasy football tie. How do you fucking tie. Now I'm 0-0-1. Wonderful. Hey Bulger. Have fun on the bench you worthless fuck. Three points?
I'd also like to thank you Cleveland. Could you have made it any easier for those faggots? Although I am hoping that this gives them a false sense of superiority, and Philadelphia takes them out on Monday. Even with the injuries, I think philly shouldn't be just straight disregarded from people's outlook. In March if I woulda said the Rays would be winning the East you'd laugh at me right? Shit happens. And I hope that 'shit' happens to the Cowboys. And by shit I mean not even make the playoffs. And I like starting sentences off with And. And im pretty sure that is a bad way of writing.
So yeah. I'll see you guys in hell.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
not in office
im not in the office this week, and school is a bitch so i won't have time to really post anything this week
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