Anybody else feel like shit this morning?

[UpTooLate]

Extra innings, gut wrenching loss, slight pilsner hangover (although I really didn't drink that much).  My plan is to finish this cup-o-coffee and try to salvage the rest of the day.

Roeders was a blast, but I'll be watching from home tonight.  As always, it was great to hang out with the TZ'ers.  Much like a game zone without all the typing.

Go Astros.  We still gotta chance at this thing.

[BudGirl]

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Extra innings, gut wrenching loss, slight pilsner hangover (although I really didn't drink that much).  My plan is to finish this cup-o-coffee and try to salvage the rest of the day.

Roeders was a blast, but I'll be watching from home tonight.  As always, it was great to hang out with the TZ'ers.  Much like a game zone without all the typing.

Go Astros.  We still gotta chance at this thing.

I'm tired, but I knew I would be.  It was really nice meeting you last night.

[Alkie]

Oddly, no.  Since the end of Game Two, I never had even the slightest feeling we'd win this thing, and I got to attend the LONGEST WORLD SERIES GAME EVER last night.  Pretty fucking cool.

And odds are I'll get to watch a team win the World Series tonight.  I'll get to watch a presentation.  I'll get to see a city win its first WS in almost 90 years.  

My team is still, and will continue to be, National League Champions.  That's a HELL of a lot more than ANYONE in here thought we'd accomplish this year.

This October was more fun than even last October, and I didn't think I'd ever be able to say that.

[hostros7]

fuck it.  We can still do this.  I like having Backe on the mound.  He won't lay down.  fuck the sox, fuck the doubters.  I may be watching the sox celebrate tonight, but I am not ready to concede the series yet.  If we get one tonight, we have two of the all time winningest post season pitchers on consecutive days, then roy O back.  Its a long shot, but I have seen worse situations.

That being said, I agree with Alkie...they can't take the NLCS from us, and that means more to me than anything else.  If it were up to me, they would never have made us play that joke league in the WS anyways with their softball rules and what not.

[Astros Fan in Big D]

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And odds are I'll get to watch a team win the World Series tonight.  I'll get to watch a presentation.  I'll get to see a city win its first WS in almost 90 years.  

My team is still, and will continue to be, National League Champions.  That's a HELL of a lot more than ANYONE in here thought we'd accomplish this year.

C'mon.  We're only mostly dead.  There's a big difference between dead and mostly dead and ...  blah blah blah.

I can't even bring myself to type the rah rah crap.  At least the Cubs won't win this year.

[ybbodeus]

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And odds are I'll get to watch a team win the World Series tonight.  I'll get to watch a presentation.  I'll get to see a city win its first WS in almost 90 years.  

My team is still, and will continue to be, National League Champions.  That's a HELL of a lot more than ANYONE in here thought we'd accomplish this year.

C'mon.  We're only mostly dead.  There's a big difference between dead and mostly dead and ...  blah blah blah.

I can't even bring myself to type the rah rah crap.  At least the Cubs won't win this year.

To parallel to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

1) Bud Seilig is calling for the NL to bring out its dead
2) Ozzie's trying to carry out the 'stros to the cart
3) Phil's telling them he's fine
4) Ozzie's telling him he's not fooling anyone
5) Phil starts singing that he's happy
6) and Seilig's trying to figure ANOTHER way to finish us off.

And then....depression set in.


Think we'll see some few more HBP's than usual and perhaps a hockey game tonight?

[Astros Brat]

I had a great time with you guys last night, and I AM hungover.  But I bounce back fast.  I'll be there screaming my lungs out tonight.  I love this team.  The boys are in a bad spot, but it ain't over.  Whatever happens, what a run!  Has this been fun, or what?

[drew corleone]

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Oddly, no.  Since the end of Game Two, I never had even the slightest feeling we'd win this thing, and I got to attend the LONGEST WORLD SERIES GAME EVER last night.  Pretty fucking cool.

And odds are I'll get to watch a team win the World Series tonight.  I'll get to watch a presentation.  I'll get to see a city win its first WS in almost 90 years.  

My team is still, and will continue to be, National League Champions.  That's a HELL of a lot more than ANYONE in here thought we'd accomplish this year.

This October was more fun than even last October, and I didn't think I'd ever be able to say that.

My thoughts, exactly. I'm going to watch tonight, and hopefully tomorrow night, and maybe if things go well I'll get to sit at Eskimo Joe's in Stillwater, OK, Saturday night and watch Game Six.

But it doesn't matter. Some of y'all might think I'm crazy, or taking the "loser mentality," but this series is anti-climactic. Yeah you want to win it when you get this far, but knocking off St. Louis was an incredible feat. And when you play a team like Chicago that is inarguably a better overall team, then it's hard for me to get disheartened seeing the good guys come up short.

[closedaroof]

 

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At least the Cubs won't win this year.

Well said.

[Gulf Coast Playboy]

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Oddly, no.  Since the end of Game Two, I never had even the slightest feeling we'd win this thing, and I got to attend the LONGEST WORLD SERIES GAME EVER last night.  Pretty fucking cool.

I agree that it was a cool piece of history, especially when coupled with the 18 inning game just two weeks ago.  One question, though:  As I understand it, it was the longest WS game TIME-WISE, and not innings-wise.  Am I wrong?

If it was indeed based on time, it would be interesting to know what portion of that is attributable to FOX's 15 minute commercial breaks and AJ Pierfuckski's stepping out of the batters box right before every pitch.

[pravata]

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Oddly, no.  Since the end of Game Two, I never had even the slightest feeling we'd win this thing, and I got to attend the LONGEST WORLD SERIES GAME EVER last night.  Pretty fucking cool.

I agree that it was a cool piece of history, especially when coupled with the 18 inning game just two weeks ago.  One question, though:  As I understand it, it was the longest WS game TIME-WISE, and not innings-wise.  Am I wrong?

If it was indeed based on time, it would be interesting to know what portion of that is attributable to FOX's 15 minute commercial breaks and AJ Pierfuckski's stepping out of the batters box right before every pitch.

Tied for innings, record for time.  Good point about the interminable "in the interest of baseball" commercial breaks.

[Moz]

They didn't help. Of course there were a lot of pitching changes too. Do Fox take the same amount of time for a pitching change as they do between half-innings?

[gleach]

I was watching Selig's monitor last night and Roy was on the mound ready to pitch, the batter was in the box ready to bat, the commercial ended, and I thought "Ok, her we go", then another fucking "House" commercial came on.  Thirty more seconds of waiting for Fix and their fucking promos.  Fuck them.

[T. J.]

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Tied for innings, record for time.  

Interesting fact about the previous 14-inning WS game:  On Monday, Oct. 9, 1916, Babe Ruth outpitched Sherry Smith and the Boston Red Sox won Game 2 over the Brooklyn Robins 2-1 in 14 innings. Both starters went the distance with Ruth allowing six hits and Smith allowing seven. According to the Boston Traveler, each starter threw 148 pitches. The game was the start of 29 2/3 scoreless innings pitched by Ruth in the World Series.

Edit:  I didn't get this off the top of my head.  It came from Rick Telander's article today:  The Link

[astrox]

I'm calling it right now.  Astros win in a laugher tonight.

[SoonerJim]

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I was watching Selig's monitor last night and Roy was on the mound ready to pitch, the batter was in the box ready to bat, the commercial ended, and I thought "Ok, her we go", then another fucking "House" commercial came on.  Thirty more seconds of waiting for Fix and their fucking promos.  Fuck them.

My favorite Fox commercial moment occurred about ten years ago when Calista Flockhart was in the box section behind the dugout, saw the camera, and began chomping madly on a hot dog when she and the rest of the Ally McBeal cast  just "happened" to be at the WS.

NPR's "All Things Considered" had a straw man segment at the end of their 3pm CST program, a Cubs' fan who has reluctantly become a Wh, Whhh, ah, "Sox fan" predicting a closeout victory tonight. We're arrayed against history, sentiment, the bookend for the RedSox win last year, and 1919, notwithstanding the fact that the ChiSox brought the WS fix upon themselves. That's why we have free agency today.

We play for ourselves tonight.