I like readers comments, I often take a look without even reading the article. The comments can be e lot more entertaining than the article and a lot of times will reveal the writer as one-eye, a complete dickhead or both. I also think of various scenarios that has both teams losing....
Yes!
Prior to the Internet, if you're hungry enough for Astros news while living in a foreign land (o/s TX), you will read whatever you can get - including comments - and even listen to games on 'enemy' stations that have strong radio signals, like SL, Atl, Cinn, etc., when they play the Astros.
Slim pickings, but devoured.
