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Victor Lazlo

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  1. Time for Bregman to get out of his funk
  2. Quoting myself, but that’s a good start
  3. Top of the order has to produce right now to get us back into it
  4. For fuck’s sake. This game is far from over. Get ahold of yourselves.
  5. In the hard copy of the Chronicle this morning, 7 Chronicle sports reporters made their World Series picks. Only one picked the Nats. Hunter Atkins’ pick? Nats in 6
  6. Ha ha. Your brother was right. We went to the 8th with a 5-2 lead, Nolan Ryan on the mound. Perfect scenario to make it to the World Series you would think. Except it all went to shit from that point. I’ve often wondered if the history of the Astros might have been more glorious if they’d beaten the Phillies that night 40 years ago. Phillies won the World Series that year. It would have been a championship only 18 years into their existence as opposed to the first one coming 55 years in.
  7. Yeah, me too. Perfectly put. I’m just glad I lived to see the day that the Astros are the big swinging dicks of baseball. Of course, we may well not win this World Series, but after the decades of fandom when we virtually had no chance to play in one, this is awesome. I still have nightmares about Game 5 of the NLCS in 1980, though.
  8. Just checking in to say that I wish the Astros would have had as good of a year as the Rangers did. Maybe next year.
  9. And my liver took a big hit too. Woooooooooo
  10. Yeah, Charlie Finley ruined it for every team that might want to claim a fake injury on a playoff roster. Oct. 14, 1973 - Charley Finley was at his most irascible after Game 2 of the World Series. The game between the Athletics and Mets took four hours and 13 minutes, the longest Series game by the clock up to then. It also was the longest day of Oakland second baseman Mike Andrews' life. After the Mets pulled ahead 7-6 in the 12th inning on the last hit of Willie Mays' career, Andrews' world came tumbling down. With the bases loaded, John Milner's ground ball went through Andrews' legs for two more runs. Jerry Grote hit another grounder to Andrews, who pulled Gene Tenace off first base with his throw, allowing another run to score. The day after Oakland's 10-7 defeat, Finley made Andrews sign a consent form saying that he had a shoulder injury and then deactivated him in favor of Manny Trillo. But Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ordered Andrews reinstated. The rest of the A's wore No. 17 on their sleeves in solidarity with Andrews, and manager Dick Williams told the team he was quitting after the Series. Even Mets fans gave Andrews a standing ovation when the Series moved to New York. Although Oakland won the Series in seven games, the celebrations were muted. "Finley takes all the fun out of winning," Reggie Jackson said
  11. Of course Fox doesn’t show the angle showing that Yordan didn’t swing on the 3rd strike
  12. Yeah, I went to my first Colt 45s game 1963 as a 4 year old. Bob Lillis gave me a bat that he broke in batting practice. My mentality was always that I just wanted one World Series before I died. And truly didn’t think it would ever happen. This “ long suffering Yankees fan” shtick is beyond laughable.
  13. Oh, so you’re doing the aggy thing where you take credit for other teams’ success? How does Judge’s junk taste? OK, cool. Hook ‘em.
  14. I’ve nothing bad to say about Chris Fowler. Some 20+ years ago when he was a minor player on Game Day he would give you his “Mighty Dog”. His underdog play of the week He killed it the one year that I played his picks. God bless you, Chris Fowler
  15. Wrong. Does not have to be. Astros are going to stomp a mud hole in the Cardinals in a grudge match.
  16. Yeah, she’s been trying to control a narrative. But events have somewhat tumbled out of control. So now she says she doesn’t give a shit what people think. Everybody else is stupid.
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