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New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« on: March 28, 2013, 12:56:06 pm »
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2013, 01:12:42 pm »
Thanks for that link!
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2013, 02:24:22 pm »
Quote from: Spawn of Orbit on March 28, 2013, 12:56:06 pm
Nice pics of Orbit--free content.

How can you call it free content when you pay a price to get through it?
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2013, 02:38:34 pm »
Quote from: Ty in Tampa on March 28, 2013, 02:24:22 pm
How can you call it free content when you pay a price to get through it?

I read it without paying for it.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 02:52:48 pm »
Quote from: Mr. Happy on March 28, 2013, 02:38:34 pm
I read it without paying for it.

I paid for it with an immediate headache. Carlos Lee Fat Jokes?! OH JOY!
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 03:04:55 pm »
Quote from: Mr. Happy on March 28, 2013, 02:38:34 pm
I read it without paying for it.

There's always a price to be paid.
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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2013, 03:09:15 pm »
Nostalgia - I haven't given the buffet a single thought since last July.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2013, 03:11:26 pm »
Quote from: MRaup on March 28, 2013, 02:52:48 pm
Carlos Lee Fat Jokes?! OH JOY!

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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2013, 04:11:54 pm »
Quote from: Bench on March 28, 2013, 03:11:26 pm
Dance with the horse that brought you.

The inevitable A-Rod salary exceeding that of the entire Astros' payroll.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100601269
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2013, 04:20:47 pm »
Quote from: SoonerJim on March 28, 2013, 04:11:54 pm
The inevitable A-Rod salary exceeding that of the entire Astros' payroll.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100601269

Ya know... but for reading this article, I'd've had no clue that the Astros were moving to the American League East.  Thanks for the info!

As the team moves into the American League East, it's in re-building mode.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2013, 04:34:33 pm »
Quote from: OregonStrosFan on March 28, 2013, 04:20:47 pm
Ya know... but for reading this article, I'd've had no clue that the Astros were moving to the American League East.  Thanks for the info!

As the team moves into the American League East, it's in re-building mode.

Woo hoo!  Fewer nine o'clock games!
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2013, 06:26:48 pm »
Quote from: OregonStrosFan on March 28, 2013, 04:20:47 pm
Ya know... but for reading this article, I'd've had no clue that the Astros were moving to the American League East.  Thanks for the info!

As the team moves into the American League East, it's in re-building mode.

Yes, because playing in the NL Central made no geographical sense.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2013, 06:41:43 pm »
Quote from: juliogotay on March 28, 2013, 06:26:48 pm
Yes, because playing in the NL Central made no geographical sense.

What with Pittsburg being in a different time zone and all.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2013, 06:47:13 pm »
Quote from: Ty in Tampa on March 28, 2013, 02:24:22 pm
How can you call it free content when you pay a price to get through it?
I consider reading retarded professional media coverage of what should/could be a major market baseball team a minor part of the price I pay for being an Astros Fan. God Bless the OWA. I am missing Footer more than usual today.  
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2013, 07:38:39 pm »
Quote from: SoonerJim on March 28, 2013, 04:11:54 pm
The inevitable A-Rod salary exceeding that of the entire Astros' payroll.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100601269
And yet I would take anyone on the Astros opening day roster over him.
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Re: New Cover Story Arcticle on the Astros
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2013, 12:12:55 pm »
Quote from: Jose Cruz III on March 28, 2013, 07:38:39 pm
And yet I would take anyone on the Astros opening day roster over him.

Except Carlos Lee, that fat bastard.
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Re: New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2013, 12:17:21 pm »
Quote from: MRaup on April 01, 2013, 12:12:55 pm
Except Carlos Lee, that fat bastard.

Honest question... is he still in baseball?
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Re: New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 12:20:04 pm »
Quote from: MusicMan on April 01, 2013, 12:17:21 pm
Honest question... is he still in baseball?

Didn't sign with a team in the offseason. Odds are he's done.
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Re: New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2013, 12:24:46 pm »
Quote from: moriartp on April 01, 2013, 12:20:04 pm
Didn't sign with a team in the offseason. Odds are he's done.

I think that he's done too and, frankly, has been since his power declined. Just not much room on a roster for an aging punch-n-judy hitter. I think that Bobby Abreu is in the exact same unemployed boat.
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Re: New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2013, 12:32:02 pm »
Wow, this is awful.  Sean Pendergast, welcome to my "People I Want to Punch in the Nuts" list.

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"Gone are the "rivalries" with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, which frankly were steeped more in a few division title races and, in the case of the Cardinals, a couple of postseason series than in any sort of historical or geographic logic. "

WTF?  Division races and postseason series aren't "historical?"  

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"To stay with the "Astros franchise as an actual domicile" analogy I used earlier"

Oh good.  Glad you decided to stay with that, it was working so well.  I stopped reading at that point.  More old news, unfounded supposition and irrelevant editorializing, I suppose?
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Re: New Cover Story Article on the Astros
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2013, 01:13:55 pm »
Quote from: moriartp on April 01, 2013, 12:20:04 pm
Didn't sign with a team in the offseason. Odds are he's done.

Carlos is never done; he's just taking a breather between mouthfuls.
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2013, 03:51:00 pm »
Speaking of cover stories http://www.barnesandnoble.com/sample/read/9780385536127

I guess the editors said, "now who in baseball currently projects the most hapless, sad-sack image? Well, the Houston Astros of course."  Yes, that is Adam Everett on the cover of Who's On Worst.
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« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2013, 03:59:51 pm »
Speaking of the great and storied New York Yankees and their fans...  B9 Opening Day at Yankee Stadium
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« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2013, 04:10:08 pm »
for shame!!
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« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2013, 04:20:58 pm »
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Speaking of the great and storied New York Yankees and their fans...  B9 Opening Day at Yankee Stadium

New Yorkers have better things to do.
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« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2013, 05:21:51 pm »
Quote from: OregonStrosFan on April 01, 2013, 03:59:51 pm
Speaking of the great and storied New York Yankees and their fans...  B9 Opening Day at Yankee Stadium

I'm surprised there weren't more Red Sox fans there.
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« Reply #26 on: April 01, 2013, 09:09:02 pm »
Quote from: OregonStrosFan on April 01, 2013, 03:59:51 pm
Speaking of the great and storied New York Yankees and their fans...  B9 Opening Day at Yankee Stadium

Move 'em to the NL!
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« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2013, 09:26:18 am »
Quote from: austro on April 01, 2013, 09:09:02 pm
Move 'em to the NL!

Good point, their "rivalry" with the Red Sox is only due to some division title races and a few postseason series.
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