Omni Dallas Hotel (Astros related)

[juliogotay]

This is the big convention hotel in downtown Dallas and they have this light show deal where they paint themselves up on special (and non-special) occasions. So last night they put something up that was a congratulatory gesture to the Houston Astros and now folks with time on their hands calling the radio sports talk shows enraged over it. If a like-Houston institution did the same for the Rangers or another Dallas team winning a championship would you Houston citizens get ticked off over it? Is this rivalry bigger than we acknowledge?

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[MRaup]

This is the big convention hotel in downtown Dallas and they have this light show deal where they paint themselves up on special (and non-special) occasions. So last night they put something up that was a congratulatory gesture to the Houston Astros and now folks with time on their hands calling the radio sports talk shows enraged over it. If a like-Houston institution did the same for the Rangers or another Dallas team winning a championship would you Houston citizens get ticked off over it? Is this rivalry bigger than we acknowledge?

I've seen a ton of my Ranger fan friends on FB being super sour grapes over Houston winning before the Rangers got to win one.

[doyce7]

I've seen a ton of my Ranger fan friends on FB being super sour grapes over Houston winning before the Rangers got to win one.

I for one am delighted to hear them bitch and moan

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[believin]

It's classy to celebrate someone else's victory, instead of being bitter that it wasn't your own.

I've received so many congratulations notes from friends who are fans of other teams since the last out was made. I did not expect that at all. I am extremely grateful for that.

[Astros Fan in Big D]

Most sports radio type fans hate the Astros.  My friends who are ranger fans have mostly been polite,  leading me to believe they'd have preferred the Astros to lose but had the good taste to not antagonize me during the playoffs.


I did have one buddy who didn't hide his hatred.  I simply ignored him.

[VirtualBob]

I did have one buddy who didn't hide his hatred.  I simply ignored him.

I trust the use of past tense was deliberate here?

[Astros Fan in Big D]

I trust the use of past tense was deliberate here?

Well he's always been a moron and I've never held it against him before.

[HudsonHawk]

Fuck the Rangers. I hope they never win another game. If I gave enough shits what they think, I'd want  the Astros to receive their Workd Series rings on a night they were playing the Rangers.

[jbm]

Fuck the Rangers. I hope they never win another game. If I gave enough shits what they think, I'd want  the Astros to receive their Workd Series rings on a night they were playing the Rangers.

Agreed, but I don't hold it against any Rangers fan who didn't want the Astros to win.  When the Rangers were in the Series (weren't they, I generally forget the losers), I was polite to my Rangers friends, but it was clear that I wasn't rooting for them.

[Limey]

I've seen a ton of my Ranger fan friends on FB being super sour grapes over Houston winning before the Rangers got to win one.

Suck it, Arlington!

[Limey]

Fuck the Rangers. I hope they never win another game. If I gave enough shits what they think, I'd want  the Astros to receive their Workd Series rings on a night they were playing the Rangers.

Let's not forget the horsehit move to try and steal 3 home games from Houston when it was under an Earth's core-warping volume of water.

FTR.

[juliogotay]

Let's not forget the horsehit move to try and steal 3 home games from Houston when it was under an Earth's core-warping volume of water.

FTR.

Remember that late season Arlington series that could have been played in Houston before big crowds if they had swapped. Crickets. And the Sunday game with the Cowboys playing.

[Limey]

Remember that late season Arlington series that could have been played in Houston before big crowds if they had swapped. Crickets. And the Sunday game with the Cowboys playing.

All they got out of all those shenanigans was to: (1) prove to everyone what a bunch of cocksuckers they are; and (b) get a front row* seat to some serious vaunting. 

* An empty front row, because no one showed up.

[HudsonHawk]

All they got out of all those shenanigans was to: (1) prove to everyone what a bunch of cocksuckers they are; and (b) get a front row* seat to some serious vaunting. 

* An empty front row, because no one showed up.

If I were making a Disney movie about this season, the Astros would use the motivation of the Rangers cocksuckingness as motivation, sort of an "Houston is all alone and we have to do it for ourselves".  Of course that's not true, the rest of the world was unbelievably supportive and helpful because it's not made up of Major League Assholes like the Rangers organization is, but it would make a sappy movie. 

[Limey]

If I were making a Disney movie about this season, the Astros would use the motivation of the Rangers cocksuckingness as motivation, sort of an "Houston is all alone and we have to do it for ourselves".  Of course that's not true, the rest of the world was unbelievably supportive and helpful because it's not made up of Major League Assholes like the Rangers organization is, but it would make a sappy movie.

The Texas Rangers' owner would be played by William Zabka.