Author Topic: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!  (Read 19255 times)

strosrays

  • Guest
(this is partially inspired by Mr. Happy using an emoticon in a GZ post last night ... it's come to that ... the horror, the horror ... )


#1 - I believe they are approaching terminal velocity.

GreatBagwellsBeard

  • Contributor
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 2990
  • The damn paterfamilias
    • View Profile
#2 Plenty of good seats available.
Drinking for two.

“I want to paint a mural of Houston for the kids, but I’m terrible at drawing swamp humidity"

BizidyDizidy

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8836
    • View Profile


32 The 8% of their games they do win are pretty sweet.
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
  -  Orson Welles

Ebby Calvin

  • Contributor
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3595
    • View Profile
#3 Pam's gone.
Don't think twice, it's alright.

Mr. Happy

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 23232
  • It's a beautiful day; let's play two
    • View Profile
#4 They're really trying hard.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Rupellier

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

juliogotay

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8738
    • View Profile
At least they're in the NL!  Huh.....what's that?

Matt

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3578
    • View Profile
The new corporate art hanging off the left field facade is very corporate!

MusicMan

  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 25931
  • Thanks for 2015
    • View Profile
#5 Remember, those runs are unearned.
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, torture of Bud Selig.

Ron Brand

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 22329
  • Smoke 'em inside.
    • View Profile
#6. "What have you done today to be a champion?" doesn't mean shit any more.
I'm in love with rock and roll and I'll be out all night.

S.P. Rodriguez

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 2932
    • View Profile
The new people art hanging off the left field facade is very people!

Using Romney logic (Corporations are people...)
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. "

-Mark Twain

hostros7

  • Pope
  • Posts: 7929
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2012, 01:09:35 pm »
Using Romney logic (Corporations are people...)

If you've got wins, you didn't get those wins, someone else got those wins for you

-- obama

Sidenote, he may be referring to the Astros.

Lefty

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3539
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2012, 01:23:27 pm »
7. Milo is retiring
You may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

MusicMan

  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 25931
  • Thanks for 2015
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2012, 01:23:54 pm »
Don't blame me, I voted for the NL.
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, torture of Bud Selig.

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2012, 01:30:04 pm »
Don't blame me, I voted for the NL.

#8 - If someone fucks up this thread with partisan politics, I know where you live, motherfucker.

Fredia

  • Pope
  • Posts: 6896
  • Looking forward
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2012, 01:31:36 pm »
9 each game is a new adventure
forever is composed entirely of nows

S.P. Rodriguez

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 2932
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2012, 01:48:21 pm »
#8 - If someone fucks up this thread with partisan politics, I know where you live, motherfucker.

To be clear, I was not endorsing either candidate.  I simply enjoyed the substitution of the word "people" for "corporate" in the given sentence.  I was required to cite the origin of the word exchange to avoid copyright infringement.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. "

-Mark Twain

ferret

  • Veteran Role Player
  • Posts: 311
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2012, 01:52:54 pm »
10.  Such polite boys, and they keep their lawn cut so nice.  They have a few people over most nights but they keep the noise down.  Hardly a peep out of them, such nice neighbors.

subnuclear

  • Pope
  • Posts: 6116
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2012, 02:03:10 pm »
11. Chris Burke bobblehead giveaways!

94CougarGrad

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3102
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2012, 02:05:13 pm »
12. On today's Worst of the Worst on EPSN, a play from the Astros ranked #10. The Red Sox and Co-Ards had goof-ups ranked higher up.

Instead, our boys were at #10. Right behind a boo-boo from the ostrich races at #9.
And, by the way, f*** off. --Mr. Happy, with a tip of the cap to JimR
Y'know, either you're a fan or you aren't. And if you aren't, get the f*** outta here, because we are and you're just in the way. --Ron Brand

Col. Sphinx Drummond

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 16760
  • art is a bulwark against the irrationality of man
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2012, 02:06:41 pm »
#15 Sandusky never showered with our boys.
Everyone's talking, few of them know
The rest are pretending, they put on a show
And if there's a message I guess this is it
Truth isn't easy, the easy part's shit

Ty in Tampa

  • Contributor
  • Pope
  • Posts: 9111
  • You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2012, 02:12:53 pm »
16. Only 4 other division rivals from now on!
"You want me broken. You want me dead.
I'm living rent-free in the back of your head."

billemite

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 59
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2012, 02:15:52 pm »
17. If you go to bed after 6 innings, you can be pretty sure you won't miss anything good.

MusicMan

  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 25931
  • Thanks for 2015
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2012, 02:16:23 pm »
#8 - If someone fucks up this thread with partisan politics, I know where you live, motherfucker.

I was trying to pull it away from politics.
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, torture of Bud Selig.

BizidyDizidy

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8836
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2012, 02:25:41 pm »
16. Only 4 other division rivals from now on!

Guaranteed to improve their spot in the standings!
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
  -  Orson Welles

OregonStrosFan

  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12328
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2012, 02:28:55 pm »
18. Subject to local blackout restrictions will only come into play for me about 16 times a year...
In the end, my dissolution with the game of baseball will not be a result of any loss of love for the game, rather from the realization that I can no longer bear the anger its supposed stewards cause to be built up in my soul. -Lee (01/08/2013)

chuck

  • Contributor
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12495
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2012, 02:35:48 pm »
#15 Sandusky never showered with our boys.

Although 34-66 feels about the same.
Y todo lo que sube baja
pregúntale a Pedro Navaja

hostros7

  • Pope
  • Posts: 7929
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2012, 02:39:33 pm »
#19 - you can still picture altuve walking around a cocktail party with a sombrero on that doubles as a chip and dip bowl whenever you feel sad.

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2012, 03:00:43 pm »
#20 - Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are avid followers.

Mr. Happy

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 23232
  • It's a beautiful day; let's play two
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #28 on: July 27, 2012, 03:09:31 pm »
#20 - Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are avid followers.

#21 - I'm Blaise Pascal, and I endorse this message. And the Astros.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Rupellier

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

Ron Brand

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 22329
  • Smoke 'em inside.
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #29 on: July 27, 2012, 03:16:42 pm »
#22 - The Little Pumas, Los Caballitos and Hunter's Lodge are all gone.
I'm in love with rock and roll and I'll be out all night.

Jacksonian

  • Contributor
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12893
  • Anonymous Source
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #30 on: July 27, 2012, 03:19:48 pm »
#23 - Next year, less Cub shit.
Goin' for a bus ride.

moriartp

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3203
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #31 on: July 27, 2012, 03:25:54 pm »
#22 - The Little Pumas, Los Caballitos and Hunter's Lodge are all gone.

Does Altuve have a fan club yet? And if so, are they called the Lollipop Guild?

BudGirl

  • Contributor
  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 17776
  • Brad Ausmus' Slave
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #32 on: July 27, 2012, 03:31:08 pm »
#24 BudGirl won't make sexual references about the new players.
''I just did an interview with someone I like more than you. I used a lot of big words on him. I don't have anything left for you.'' --Brad Ausmus

Well behaved women rarely make history.

subnuclear

  • Pope
  • Posts: 6116
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #33 on: July 27, 2012, 03:33:01 pm »
#25 Fat jokes about Carlos Lee replaced by short jokes about Jose Altuve.

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #34 on: July 27, 2012, 03:37:36 pm »
26.  Less traffic = shorter games.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #35 on: July 27, 2012, 03:38:19 pm »
#27 - FTR!! (Fuck Tha Rangers!)

Ron Brand

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 22329
  • Smoke 'em inside.
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #36 on: July 27, 2012, 03:40:03 pm »
#28 - Thanks to the new ownership, a giant sun screen has been built in left field.
I'm in love with rock and roll and I'll be out all night.

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #37 on: July 27, 2012, 03:44:38 pm »
#29 - The Altuve has been adopted as a standard measure of (short) distance; replacing the EdWade, which was less accurate (and less fun).

Texifornia

  • Should Have Quit 500 Posts Ago
  • Posts: 2275
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #38 on: July 27, 2012, 03:47:36 pm »
#29 The arithmetic needed to complete the Astros' side of the scorecard is way easier than for other clubs.
He breezed him, one more time!

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #39 on: July 27, 2012, 03:53:57 pm »
#30 - The quip "Houston, we have a problem" has become so tediously obvious, it is now passe (I think/hope)

ferret

  • Veteran Role Player
  • Posts: 311
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2012, 03:54:23 pm »
#22 - The Little Pumas, Los Caballitos and Hunter's Lodge are all gone.

The Wizards of Os.  Or did you block those guys from your memory?

The Seeker

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 37
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #41 on: July 27, 2012, 04:01:07 pm »
#31 Majority of roster under club control until 2016-2018 timeframe

The Seeker

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 37
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #42 on: July 27, 2012, 04:01:45 pm »
#32 Club will improve through free agency losses

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2012, 04:03:08 pm »
#33 - The FOX broadcasts are relatively free of the 'Sarah McLachlan for Abused Pets' commercials.

drew corleone

  • Should Have Quit 500 Posts Ago
  • Posts: 2458
    • View Profile
    • http://2centmovies.blogspot.com
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2012, 04:03:40 pm »
The Wizards of Os.  Or did you block those guys from your memory?

Blum's Blondes.

ferret

  • Veteran Role Player
  • Posts: 311
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2012, 04:25:42 pm »
Blum's Blondes.

Yeah.  Them.  All that winning excited the casual fan into making inappropriate gestures.  Thankfully there will no such giddiness any time soon.

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #46 on: July 27, 2012, 04:36:23 pm »
34.  There's plenty of beer.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

Ty in Tampa

  • Contributor
  • Pope
  • Posts: 9111
  • You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #47 on: July 27, 2012, 04:39:10 pm »
34.  There's plenty of $12 beer.

"You want me broken. You want me dead.
I'm living rent-free in the back of your head."

Col. Sphinx Drummond

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 16760
  • art is a bulwark against the irrationality of man
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #48 on: July 27, 2012, 05:22:31 pm »
#86 Nobody got stabbed in the belly or had their "girlfriend kill herself" in front of them.
Everyone's talking, few of them know
The rest are pretending, they put on a show
And if there's a message I guess this is it
Truth isn't easy, the easy part's shit

EasTexAstro

  • Pope
  • Posts: 5748
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #49 on: July 27, 2012, 05:32:41 pm »
We had Footer.
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of 'em was one kinda sombitch or another.

Jacksonian

  • Contributor
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12893
  • Anonymous Source
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #50 on: July 27, 2012, 05:42:09 pm »
We had Footer.

I don't think you're doing this right.
Goin' for a bus ride.

moriartp

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3203
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #51 on: July 27, 2012, 06:36:00 pm »
36. We have Levine.

chuck

  • Contributor
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12495
    • View Profile
Y todo lo que sube baja
pregúntale a Pedro Navaja

moriartp

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3203
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #53 on: July 27, 2012, 06:47:35 pm »
37. and Jim Deshaies.

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #54 on: July 27, 2012, 11:04:29 pm »
38. We donn nee no stinkin magic number!

headhunter

  • Veteran Role Player
  • Posts: 336
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #55 on: July 27, 2012, 11:44:22 pm »
38.1 When you go an Astros game no one shoots you!
39. If you arrive late there are still plenty of promotional bobbleheads available. Even if you have no idea who they are you take a few. The kids just love a reactive target.
40. It's fun to watch the Astros marketing department's descent into madness as they try desperate gimmick after desperate gimmick to attract interest (random fan in audience gets to pinch hit, close the game, replace Milo--shit they're all ready doing this--Dollar beer is near).
41. When you take the family to a game they still get to watch one major league team play.
42. Astros fans might get the chance to be in a movie! Charlie Sheen's people and Crane are discussing remaking Major League and Red Dawn at the same time! A determined group of children will use guerrilla tactics to beat an overpowering invading team of professionals. The wacky loveable kids have both endearing personal quirks, and hand grenades. This plucky team of kids is  lead by a verteran fighter pilot and pitcher who comes out of retirement after being shot down for flying too, too high, Wild Thing!
43. As you shave you can still tell the degenerate Astros fan in the mirror,"at least I am not a Cubs fan."   
44. The Astros' payroll so low that there's money available to sign those high draft picks.
45. Since we are not Japanese our children won't be traumatized by Mills' ritual seppuku as he takes responsibility and atones for his managerial record.
46. If you go to a game and see the Astros win, you'll really have a story to tell.  
47. At least Fuckhouse made it out and doesn't have to cover this horseshit of a team. I can be happy for her, right?
48. The Astros lock on the number one draft pick gets tighter with every game!
49. Some nights you can hear cheering, happy hometown fans--watching Soccer!
50. The asshole wearing the visiting team's gear knows not to fuck with you; if you are crazy enough to support this team god knows what you might be capable of?

« Last Edit: July 27, 2012, 11:52:36 pm by headhunter »
my probation officer is real proud of me
I drive an Olds 88 got the devil on a leash...
I'm going out West...

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #56 on: July 27, 2012, 11:51:57 pm »
51 The chances are really good you don't have to worry about someone standing up in front of you to go to the bathroom to block your view of the game. Oh wait, that may not be positive.

Bench

  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 16476
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #57 on: July 28, 2012, 09:40:51 am »
52.  The wave is logistically impossible.
"Holy shit, Mozart. Get me off this fucking thing."

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #58 on: July 28, 2012, 09:45:08 am »
53.  The conversation of the people behind you can't be worse than the play on the field.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

strosrays

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #59 on: July 28, 2012, 09:46:33 am »
#54 - You can tell your friends to look for you,  You'll be in most of the crowd shots on the telecast.

BizidyDizidy

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8836
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #60 on: July 28, 2012, 09:53:32 am »
53.  The conversation of the people behind you can't be worse than the play on the field.

This seems optimistic
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
  -  Orson Welles

Jose Cruz III

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 4094
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #61 on: July 28, 2012, 09:59:36 am »
#55 At least when you are watching the game you are not in an operating room having rectal surgery.
Unga bungaed by the BBGs.

"No. Humans will die out. We're weak. Dinosaurs survived on rotten flesh. You got diarrhea last week from a Wendy's."

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #62 on: July 28, 2012, 10:26:50 am »
#55 At least when you are watching the game you are not in an operating room having rectal surgery.

Or, better than a colonoscopy!
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

austro

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 19637
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #63 on: July 28, 2012, 11:19:18 am »
Or, better than a colonoscopy!

I don't know. For a colonoscopy you're sedated. At $10/beer, that's hard to do at an Astros game.
I remember all the good times me 'n Miller enjoyed
Up and down the M1 in some luminous yo-yo toy
But the future has to change - and to change I've got to destroy
Oh look out Lennon here I come - land ahoy-hoy-hoy

Mr. Happy

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 23232
  • It's a beautiful day; let's play two
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #64 on: July 28, 2012, 12:02:47 pm »
I don't know. For a colonoscopy you're sedated. At $10/beer, that's hard to do at an Astros game.

56. Complimenary champagne and caviar during winning streaks!
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Rupellier

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

chuck

  • Contributor
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 12495
    • View Profile
Y todo lo que sube baja
pregúntale a Pedro Navaja

Andyzipp

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #66 on: July 28, 2012, 04:34:32 pm »
The Wizards of Os.  Or did you block those guys from your memory?

You obviously did.  They were called the O's Bros.

Jose Cruz III

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 4094
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #67 on: July 29, 2012, 07:39:43 am »
56. Complimenary champagne and caviar during winning streaks!
Than following the Astros is better than going to AA meetings.
Unga bungaed by the BBGs.

"No. Humans will die out. We're weak. Dinosaurs survived on rotten flesh. You got diarrhea last week from a Wendy's."

utastro

  • Prime Time Player
  • Posts: 888
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #68 on: July 29, 2012, 11:21:24 am »
57. We get to see the Astros play in every mlb stadium in a 2 year stretch.
Oh God, I wish I was a loofah!

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #69 on: July 29, 2012, 11:31:00 am »
58.  There's air-conditioning.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

moriartp

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3203
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #70 on: July 29, 2012, 11:41:47 am »
58.  There's air-conditioning.

Amen to that.

Ron Brand

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 22329
  • Smoke 'em inside.
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #71 on: July 29, 2012, 11:53:00 am »
Levine's got a nice article up.

Quote
“You look at the progression of other clubs — the Royals, the Pirates, the Rays — and how long it took them,” Luhnow said. “We are doing everything we can to not be dormant for that long of a period of time.”
I'm in love with rock and roll and I'll be out all night.

Navin R Johnson

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 4882
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #72 on: July 29, 2012, 02:10:35 pm »
58. Grilled Shrimp Tacos in the club level.  Best ballpark food I have tasted in the 12 MLB stadiums I have been too.
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.

TxRascal

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 41
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #73 on: July 29, 2012, 03:20:04 pm »
Than following the Astros is better than going to AA meetings.

But not better than following AA baseball...
"It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball."  Don Drysdale

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #74 on: July 29, 2012, 05:10:30 pm »
59. Short lines at the urinals.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

Mr. Happy

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 23232
  • It's a beautiful day; let's play two
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #75 on: July 29, 2012, 06:48:26 pm »
60. We're trying real hard!
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Rupellier

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #76 on: July 29, 2012, 07:02:24 pm »
60. We're trying real hard!

And I think that's probably true.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

ferret

  • Veteran Role Player
  • Posts: 311
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #77 on: July 30, 2012, 09:28:27 am »
You obviously did.  They were called the O's Bros.

My memory was of pointy wizard hats and long fake beards.  My mistake is that those do not suggest "bros" where I come from but there are different customs in some places. 

Andyzipp

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #78 on: July 30, 2012, 10:04:04 am »
My memory was of pointy wizard hats and long fake beards.  My mistake is that those do not suggest "bros" where I come from but there are different customs in some places. 

I wish I could wipe that from my mind.

Limey

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 32079
  • Tally Ho!
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #79 on: July 30, 2012, 10:25:53 am »
You obviously did.  They were called the O's Bros.

I met an O's Bro once.  He said that Selig totally fucked them during the World Series, and would not let them set up anywhere.

Selig's career-long defecation on the Astros is very detailed and comprehensive.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Bench

  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 16476
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #80 on: July 30, 2012, 10:39:33 am »
I met an O's Bro once.  He said that Selig totally fucked them during the World Series, and would not let them set up anywhere.

Selig's career-long defecation on the Astros is very detailed and comprehensive.

I sat right next to them during Game 3.  They were set up in the terrace level by the right field foul pole.  They had the sign draped over a railing and were certainly established in numbers and costumes. 

But, fuck Selig anyway.  Don't really need any more reasons. 
"Holy shit, Mozart. Get me off this fucking thing."

Fredia

  • Pope
  • Posts: 6896
  • Looking forward
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #81 on: July 30, 2012, 10:42:48 am »
wonder what started it all?
forever is composed entirely of nows

Reuben

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8852
    • View Profile
    • art
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #82 on: July 30, 2012, 10:54:16 am »
I sat right next to them during Game 3.  They were set up in the terrace level by the right field foul pole.  They had the sign draped over a railing and were certainly established in numbers and costumes

But, fuck Selig anyway.  Don't really need any more reasons. 
What the hell would an O's Bro dress up as? I don't remember them at all.
"Come check us out in the Game Zone. We don’t bite. Unless you say something idiotic." -Mr. Happy

Andyzipp

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #83 on: July 30, 2012, 10:54:44 am »
What the hell would an O's Bro dress up as? I don't remember them at all.

Wizard hats, long beards.  Do try to keep up.

chandler44

  • Roster Filler
  • Posts: 192
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #84 on: July 30, 2012, 12:26:57 pm »
Really only a couple of 'em dressed up.  I was part of the original group on the Astros.com message board that started it, but I only made it to maybe 2-3 more over the years (including the 2004 NLCS Game 4 Oswalt start) due to travel issues, etc.  I can't speak for what it turned into, but at the beginning it was a play on another pitcher from another team's cheering section, I think it was Randy Wolf.  Basically it was an excuse for a bunch of friends from a message board to get together and watch the Astros.
Living is easy with eyes closed.

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #85 on: July 30, 2012, 12:39:41 pm »
Basically it was an excuse for a bunch of friends from a message board to get together and watch the Astros.

What a bad idea.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

Arky Vaughan

  • Administrator
  • Pope
  • Posts: 6335
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #86 on: July 30, 2012, 01:08:42 pm »
What a bad idea.

Especially these days.

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #87 on: July 30, 2012, 01:30:05 pm »
Never trust people you meet on the internet!

MusicMan

  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 25931
  • Thanks for 2015
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #88 on: July 30, 2012, 01:38:05 pm »
Never trust people you meet on the internet!

I AM SPARTACUS!
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, torture of Bud Selig.

das

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3465
    • View Profile
    • Faith Home Ministries
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #89 on: July 30, 2012, 01:40:30 pm »
Never trust people you meet on the internet!

Amen to that.

61.  The travelling horseshit show has brought The Ferret back.
62.  There will soon be a reason to go back to Camden Yard
63.  East coast gangs are too embarassed to wear Astros gear anymore, precluding any more uncomfortable misdirected confrontations.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2012, 01:46:58 pm by das »
Another trenchant comment by a jealous lesser intellect.

Lefty

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3539
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #90 on: July 30, 2012, 06:20:09 pm »
64. None more stickhorse
You may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

Limey

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 32079
  • Tally Ho!
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #91 on: July 31, 2012, 09:35:54 am »
64. None more stickhorse black.

FIFST
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #92 on: July 31, 2012, 09:44:22 am »
65. You actually need to buy programs to know who plays on the team today.

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #93 on: July 31, 2012, 09:46:08 am »
65. You actually need to buy programs to know who plays on the team today.

Or maybe free wi-fi, so if you have a smart phone you don't need to buy a program to find out who's on the team today?
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

94CougarGrad

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3102
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #94 on: July 31, 2012, 11:18:16 am »
66. Open tryouts- next on the horizon?
And, by the way, f*** off. --Mr. Happy, with a tip of the cap to JimR
Y'know, either you're a fan or you aren't. And if you aren't, get the f*** outta here, because we are and you're just in the way. --Ron Brand

Reuben

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8852
    • View Profile
    • art
"Come check us out in the Game Zone. We don’t bite. Unless you say something idiotic." -Mr. Happy

Navin R Johnson

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 4882
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #96 on: July 31, 2012, 12:18:48 pm »
Or maybe free wi-fi, so if you have a smart phone you don't need to buy a program to find out who's on the team today?

67.  With the lack of people in the stadium, the Wifi actually works.
There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.

Fredia

  • Pope
  • Posts: 6896
  • Looking forward
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #97 on: July 31, 2012, 04:28:36 pm »
68 you get your own private food cart and chef
forever is composed entirely of nows

Lefty

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3539
    • View Profile
« Last Edit: July 31, 2012, 09:19:42 pm by Lefty »
You may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

The Spleen

  • Should Have Quit 500 Posts Ago
  • Posts: 1175
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #99 on: July 31, 2012, 10:06:23 pm »
69. They haven't killed anybody (on purpose).
When the Clark is dead, Spack will eat his spleen. Before he dies, Spack will put his posts under the knife so the Clark will see his threads wiped out forever...

NeilT

  • Fantasy Team Owner
  • Double Super Secret Pope
  • Posts: 11670
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #100 on: August 01, 2012, 08:13:19 pm »
70.  If you're reading this thread, no one can ever accuse you of jumping on the bandwagon.
"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing... as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”  Charles Grassley

Andyzipp

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #101 on: August 01, 2012, 08:29:35 pm »
71.  Fans like to see lots of runs scored, right?!?

TxRascal

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 41
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #102 on: August 01, 2012, 09:55:26 pm »
71.  Fans like to see lots of runs scored, right?!?

But they generally like to see their team scoring the lots of runs...
"It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball."  Don Drysdale

Arky Vaughan

  • Administrator
  • Pope
  • Posts: 6335
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #103 on: August 02, 2012, 01:16:07 am »
72. They'll be back in first place by Opening Day.

BizidyDizidy

  • Pope
  • Posts: 8836
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #104 on: August 02, 2012, 06:27:08 am »
But they generally like to see their team scoring the lots of runs...

Beggars, choosers.
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
  -  Orson Welles

JimR

  • Contributor
  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 29345
    • View Profile
    • McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, LLP
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #105 on: August 02, 2012, 09:19:45 am »
But they generally like to see their team scoring the lots of runs...

hey! welcome back!
Often wrong, but never in doubt.

TxRascal

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 41
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #106 on: August 02, 2012, 09:40:37 am »
hey! welcome back!

Thanks Coach.  Figured I'd climb back on before there was a bandwagon...
"It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball."  Don Drysdale

MusicMan

  • High Order of the Ferret
  • *****
  • Posts: 25931
  • Thanks for 2015
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #107 on: August 02, 2012, 09:44:22 am »
Thanks Coach.  Figured I'd climb back on before there was a bandwagon...

There's a bandwagon.  But it fits in my Radio Flyer wagon.
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, torture of Bud Selig.

Bench

  • Illuminati
  • Posts: 16476
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #108 on: August 02, 2012, 09:58:28 am »
There's a bandwagon.  But it fits in my Radio Flyer wagon.

There's a bandwagon.  But no instruments.
"Holy shit, Mozart. Get me off this fucking thing."

EasTexAstro

  • Pope
  • Posts: 5748
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #109 on: August 02, 2012, 10:18:41 am »
Thanks Coach.  Figured I'd climb back on before there was a bandwagon...

There's a bandwagon, like on the Titanic.
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of 'em was one kinda sombitch or another.

TxRascal

  • Disappointing Rookie
  • Posts: 41
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #110 on: August 02, 2012, 10:54:17 am »
There's a bandwagon.  But no instruments.

SOS.  No instruments but a lot of tools...
"It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball."  Don Drysdale

94CougarGrad

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3102
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #111 on: August 02, 2012, 11:01:46 am »
73. They're wearing flashback shirts this season, which is kinda cool.
And, by the way, f*** off. --Mr. Happy, with a tip of the cap to JimR
Y'know, either you're a fan or you aren't. And if you aren't, get the f*** outta here, because we are and you're just in the way. --Ron Brand

GreatBagwellsBeard

  • Contributor
  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 2990
  • The damn paterfamilias
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #112 on: August 02, 2012, 11:11:36 am »
73. They're wearing flashback shirts this season, which is kinda cool.

Brings back all kinds of memories of 1989-1991.


74. Brett Wallace.  The backyard on that fella is still sizable, even though he's down 30 lbs.
Drinking for two.

“I want to paint a mural of Houston for the kids, but I’m terrible at drawing swamp humidity"

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #113 on: August 02, 2012, 11:19:18 am »
75. The bullpen catcher is getting plenty of work.

Ty in Tampa

  • Contributor
  • Pope
  • Posts: 9111
  • You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #114 on: August 02, 2012, 02:33:16 pm »
76. The Astros aren't going to hire Cam Bonifay in any capacity.
"You want me broken. You want me dead.
I'm living rent-free in the back of your head."

Texifornia

  • Should Have Quit 500 Posts Ago
  • Posts: 2275
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #115 on: August 02, 2012, 03:29:06 pm »
77. Next year the Astros won't suffer the indignation of looking up at the Cubs and Pirates in the standings.
He breezed him, one more time!

Noe

  • Guest
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #116 on: August 02, 2012, 03:34:22 pm »
78. Hey, no one cares about the 25th man on the team any more!

hostros7

  • Pope
  • Posts: 7929
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #117 on: August 02, 2012, 03:39:25 pm »
79.  If the bullpen remains in its current state, no need to worry about staying up late next year to catch the last few innings. 

pots

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 4514
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #118 on: August 02, 2012, 07:37:34 pm »
80.  The Astros are going to be PITA when it comes the August waiver process.  

Okay, first up.  Astros do you want to claim any of these 7 players.
Luhnow: Yes
Player A, B, C, D, E, F or G?
Luhnow: Yes
« Last Edit: August 02, 2012, 07:41:50 pm by pots »

94CougarGrad

  • Key Member of the Conspiracy
  • Posts: 3102
    • View Profile
Re: Think Positively!!!! Good things to say about your Houston Astros!!!!
« Reply #119 on: August 06, 2012, 01:06:39 pm »
81. The current state of things has evoked some really fantastic posts on the main page (yes, we have one) of this site.
And, by the way, f*** off. --Mr. Happy, with a tip of the cap to JimR
Y'know, either you're a fan or you aren't. And if you aren't, get the f*** outta here, because we are and you're just in the way. --Ron Brand