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David in Jackson

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Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« on: October 09, 2015, 02:55:53 pm »
I guess after 35 years in the Dome, Houston feels more comfortable with indoor baseball.  Lots of good memories from roof being closed in 2005, but I prefer baseball outside.

Is there any strategic part of this?  Reason for preference?
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2015, 03:33:55 pm »
Quote from: David in Jackson on October 09, 2015, 02:55:53 pm
I guess after 35 years in the Dome, Houston feels more comfortable with indoor baseball.  Lots of good memories from roof being closed in 2005, but I prefer baseball outside.

Is there any strategic part of this?  Reason for preference?

Are you kidding? It gets loud as shit in there.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2015, 03:44:23 pm »
Quote from: David in Jackson on October 09, 2015, 02:55:53 pm
I guess after 35 years in the Dome, Houston feels more comfortable with indoor baseball.  Lots of good memories from roof being closed in 2005, but I prefer baseball outside.

Is there any strategic part of this?  Reason for preference?
Have you ever been there with roof closed in a playoff atmosphere? You can't here yourself think
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2015, 03:48:10 pm »
Someone didn't watch the '04/05 playoffs and then the '05 WS.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2015, 06:15:55 pm »
Didn't the league force them to have the roof open in the WS?


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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2015, 06:22:24 pm »
Quote from: astrox on October 10, 2015, 06:15:55 pm
Didn't the league force them to have the roof open in the WS?

I thought it was the NLCS, but yes, Bud and his minions forced them to open the roof.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2015, 06:42:12 pm »
Forecast calls for 88F tomorrow


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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2015, 06:53:11 pm »
Quote from: astrox on October 10, 2015, 06:42:12 pm
Forecast calls for 88F tomorrow


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That's too cold to leave the roof open.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2015, 08:15:29 pm »
Quote from: NeilT on October 10, 2015, 06:53:11 pm
That's too cold to leave the roof open.

Fuck you, Bud. What a useless collection of cells.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2015, 07:23:13 am »
Quote from: David in Jackson on October 09, 2015, 02:55:53 pm
I guess after 35 years in the Dome, Houston feels more comfortable with indoor baseball.  Lots of good memories from roof being closed in 2005, but I prefer baseball outside.

Is there any strategic part of this?  Reason for preference?

Is this a serious question? Were you not posting here in 04-05?
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2015, 07:26:34 am »
Quote from: homer on October 09, 2015, 03:33:55 pm
Are you kidding? It gets loud as shit in there.

As has been said here before, Mark and I were at the game before the Kent game in 04. Beltran homered to take the lead in the 8th, and Lidge came on in the 9th. It was so loud, it seemed like everything went totally silent. Mark was trying to tell me something and was screaming in my ear. I could not hear him.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2015, 07:26:43 am »
Quote from: JimR on October 11, 2015, 07:23:13 am
Is this a serious question? Were you not posting here in 04-05?

That was the noisiest place I've ever been.  I'm not sure what it does, but it's got to do something.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2015, 09:46:42 am »
Quote from: NeilT on October 11, 2015, 07:26:43 am
That was the noisiest place I've ever been.  I'm not sure what it does, but it's got to do something.
I refer to it as a basketball arena with twice as many people.
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2015, 10:51:07 am »
I've never been at Union Station during a playoff game, but I was in the dome Game 6 in 1986.

I was so loud the steel column near my seat was vibrating. The thought that the whole thing might come down went through my mind after Hatcher's homer. Exhilarating!
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Re: Roof closed for MMPUS ALDS games
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2015, 11:02:51 am »
My wife won tickets to the game, thru a Astros Twitter contest, so we are going now.  I can't wait to hear the ROAR of that place today.  That Kent homer was the loudest I have ever heard anything, outside of a shuttle launch.

If anyone is looking for a good pregame spot, we have been going to 1820 (bar next to the Arcade place on Hamilton) all season.  They have a great selection of beer, but all in cans or bottles, no taps.  It doesn't get super crowded in there, the AC is cold and the beer is even colder.

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