Rangers at Astros – Return of the Silver Boot and the Hippy Hoppy Bunny Edition

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Foghorn in Series Previews

By Foghorn

Minute Maid Park

Friday, 7:05 PM on KNWS
Saturday, 6:05 PM on FSSW
Sunday, 1:05 PM on FSSW

Notable giveaways

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Friday—fireworks, Coca Cola Value Night, and straw cowboy hats

Saturday—Camouflage Cap, Armed Forces Day, and a country concert with Jason Boland and the Stragglers (as opposed to Jason Bourne and the fuck-em-uppers).

Sunday—Astros wives versus Ranger wives in a softball game (betcha money Mrs. Ensberg looks at strike 3 to end a feverish comeback), and Lone Star Series T-Shirts
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Astros take it 2-1, a coming of age story

Posted on May 16, 2007 by JackAstro in Game Recaps

May 16, 2007
Astros 2, Gints 1
W: Chris Sampson | L: Noah Lowry | S: Dan Wheeler
Pigpen watch: 2,966 (0-4)
Soak in the Game Zone
Try to keep the Gunther worship down to a dull roar in the Talk Zone

Other coverage:
AP Recap
Astros.com Recap (Ben DuBose)

On a night where the stench of past failures and unhittable changeups hung over the field like a fog, the Good Guys prevailed in a good old-fashioned pitcher’s duel. Proud new papa Chris Sampson picked up his 4th W on the campaign, assisted by a memorable performance from everybody’s favorite new muppet look-alike.Read More

Walk-off blast in the 10th completes comeback victory

Posted on May 15, 2007 by mihoba in Game Recaps

Astros 6, Giants 5 (10 innings)
WP Qualls (4-1) LP Sanchez (1-1)

Pigpen’s path to Cooperstown: 0-fer (2,966)

AP recap
Footer MIA, Ben DuBose fills in with his wrap.

Carlos Lee hammered his second solo home run of the night off of the limestone facade with one out in the 10th inning to send the rockin’ Minute Maid Park fans home happy as the Astros beat the Giants 6-5. El Caballo crossed the dish four times on his four hits and a walk in his perfect evening of work.Read More

Gints in Necktown, Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Taras Bulba in Series Previews

By Taras Bulba

Giants (19-18) at Astros (18-19)
Minute Maid Park
AKA “The Juice Box” (No, Barry—not that kind of juice)

Tuesday, May 15, 7:05 CDT-FSN
Wednesday, May 16, 7:05 CDT-FSN
Thursday, May 17, 7:05 CDT-FSN

On paper, it’s your classic matchup—two mediocre teams, San Fran (8-8 on the road and 5-5 in their last 10 games) doing battle with the HGH impaired Astros (8-9 at home and 6-4 over the last week and a half). The Castro District Boys just took two out of three from Colorado, the last featuring some fairly rough S&M hijinks at the expense of former Astro, Taylor Buchholz. Houston, meanwhile, did the same to Arizona, although Livian Hernandez just sort of rolled over and didn’t moan or anything. He’s a veteran.

Dunn deals blow to sweep plans

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Ty in Tampa in Game Recaps

May 10, 2007

Astros 5
Reds 9

W: Harang | L: Albers | S: Weathers

Epic Game Zone
Level-headed Talk Zone

Other coverage:
Footer keeps it upbeat
YaHoo!

Whoever invented work hated baseball

I’ll admit, I barely got to watch this one but from a quick check of the 1st inning score, I could tell the good feeling from the past 5 meetings with the Reds may be evaporating. The Astros couldn’t overcome the Dickities’ 4-run 1st, 2-run 2nd and 1-run 3rd that made up all of Matt Albers’ time on the bump today and went on to drop this turd, 9-5.Read More

Diamondbacks @ Astros – Makin’ Friends (May 11-13, 2007)

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Dark Star in Series Previews

By ‘strosrays

Diamond(back)s Are A Churl’s Best Friend

Diamondbacks (19-17) at Astros (16-18)
Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford St., Houston, TX 77002
a/k/a “The Juice Box”

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Friday, Once de Mayo, 7:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Saturday, Doce de Mayo, 6:05 p.m. CDT – FSN
Sunday, Trece de Mayo, 1:05 p.m. CDT – FSN

The weekend matchup features two of this season’s really streaky teams so far. In arriving at their current 19-17 mark, the Diamondbacks have had two six-game winning streaks along the way, and two five-game losing streaks. The Astros, of course, lost 5 of their first 6; won 8 of their next 9; lost seven straight; dicked around for a weekend in Milwaukee, drinking Milwaukee’s Best (though not in their clubhouse, of course) and eating brats and kielbasa (i.e., Slavic soul food); and since then have won six of their last nine. What that all adds up to for this series is, well, who knows? Arizona had a mini three-game winning streak snapped Wednesday by the Phillies, while the Astros were taking three of four from the Dickities at The Great Dickitie Ball Park in Dickitieburg Town. So that means that, um, well. . . I’m betting one of the teams in this series will win two of three, I don’t know which, though.Read More

Drunken philosophers, steering SUVs, The Sea Hag

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