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World Series 2017 - Congratulations to the Houston Astros!
- Thread starter Chaparral
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Great night. Should be a fun day at work. Though I just realized in my auto pilot state that Im wearing a dodgers blue polo shirt. Uh oh.
Losing in 7 when we should have won in 5 is just heartbreaking. I could deal with it if we'd just been outplayed the whole time. But we had this.
rangers "fans" are the worst. they were talking shit during the ACLS about having been 1 strike away from winning it all, like who brags about losing that? Then some dumbass rangers player was bragging about going into yankee stadium in 2010 or 2011 and winning games.
goddamn, that's some brutal trolling
yea, the astros could have and probably should have finished it in 5. Bullpen doesn't fall apart in game 4 and they walk it off, guaranteed they win game five.
astros should hire him as bench coach to replace Cora. That's essentially what he was in this series. But congrats to him, you could tell it meant a lot to him.
This Astros lineup is legit.
They beat:
Chris Sale x2
Craig Kimbrel
Sabathia in game 7 in a spot that the Yankees haven't lost(undefeated after a yankee loss)
Chapman
Jansen x2
Darvish x2
Kershaw
that's a pretty good list of pitchers to have scored runs against in the biggest spots possible.
They beat:
Chris Sale x2
Craig Kimbrel
Sabathia in game 7 in a spot that the Yankees haven't lost(undefeated after a yankee loss)
Chapman
Jansen x2
Darvish x2
Kershaw
that's a pretty good list of pitchers to have scored runs against in the biggest spots possible.
That's dumb. You know goddamn well I'm talking about the Dodgers blowing a 3-1 lead in the 8th in Game 2 and a 7-4 lead in Game 5.
We had this series. Congrats on winning it anyway.
We had this series. Congrats on winning it anyway.
don't be a sore loser bro. that's the entire point of a 7 game series, is the better team is always going to win it.
Not at all. Even with 7 games, there's still a high luck factor. We win this if Kenley gets his glove on a bouncer up the middle in the 8th inning of Game 2.
Fuck it, we win this if the worst ump in MLB doesn't call Barnes out on strikes in the 8th inning of Game 5.
Nothing against the Astros stepping up and getting big hits, but they also won basically every coin flip play in the series, and that inspires a little more salt than would normally be merited.
I was thinking Yu cost himself millions with his performance in this series but then I remember Price still got paid so who knows.
Yanks vs Mets!!!
Yanks vs Mets!!!
When the Dynamo won they didn't even have a stadium. Heck, I don't even think they had a parade.
I did get to go to the conference championship. It was cool.
LOL. Yeah, but those don't mean as much as the big 3 NFL/NBA/MLB. No one is talking about the Dynamo being in the MLS playoffs right now.
eh, most people generally care about the big three, which is NFL, MLB and NBA. hell we don't even have a WNBA team anymore.
Also for as popular as soccer is internationally and with people here, the general impression I get is stuff like the world cup is bigger and far more important than MLS.
Love how a 64-98 team feels like they can talk shit about a rival who fell a few runs short of winning the greatest World Series of the modern era.
Weird, it's almost like if things go your teams way in a game they have a tendency to win more often
64 wins or 104 wins doesn't matter if you don't win it all. Also, it's funny
Still professional championships whether you regard them highly or not lol
I don't even like either.
Wishful thinking...I'd totally care if we got an NHL team in Houston. Hopefully, Tilman Fertitta can make that happen.
Well, going by 538's ELO rating, yeah, the better team could have done so, but they ended up getting knocked out by the Yankees
Too bad
Right. Some things that go right are no-doubters, like Springer's homer today, and some things are more flukey.
Basically every flukey thing went Houston's way. It doesn't mean they didn't make big plays. They did.
Sometimes things go your way and you still lose. In the end you have to close the deal. And Houston hadn't been able to do that until yesterday.
Even when the Rockets won "But Michael Jordan....:"
This was as earned as one could get. No asterik.
It's unreal.
Even when the Rockets won "But Michael Jordan....:"
This was as earned as one could get. No asterik.
It's unreal.
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aaaand the twitter trolls have woken up. "one world series doesn't justify 6 years of losing" like wtf. several of those years were before the ownership change and new GM, who had a plan of tanking. People are stupid, I would absolutely take the world series win because of the tanking.
That game 2 lead? The Astros were scored against with a total of 2 hits.
And why is that 7-4 lead so important? There were a total of THREE 3-run homers that game. That game was nothing but leads that were lost, that, with most other teams/series should/would not have been lost:
To quote from Reddit:
But somehow the Dodgers were the ones blowing leads, and the ones that "should have" won.
Maaaaan, it really sometimes feels like New York, Boston, and LA fans become too fucking expectant of the championships. Wouldn't really mind all of those cities suffering from a good long sports championship drought.
Also feels cool to have beaten all 3 of those cities' teams during the playoffs. And of course, the rosters with the 3 highest payrolls.
It's really weird with Texas teams.
On one hand, all Texas teams are rivals of one another. What they might hate more than anything else is for the other Texas teams to get a ring, especially when it's a situation where the Astros and Rangers are the two oldest teams without rings, in the same division, and whoever gets their first gets bragging rights
At the same time, across sports, it's not that uncommon to see fans of one Texas team root for the other Texas team once their team gets knocked out. Whether it's a state pride thing, or just being more satisfied if the rivalry as a whole is made more important and prestigious, it's something that happens decently often.
So idk. It's just really weird, especially between Houston and Dallas, one of which is always trying to make the other "the little brother".
dude. my best friend I played highschool ball with, were texting each other, we'd say the same shit "that's not a strike" "that was a strike against astros hitters last inning" when a ball was called for Morton.
I think people who watched the 2016, 2011, or 2001 World Series would dispute that it was the greatest ever, but OK.
yea f all that, I hate the spurs, mavs, rangers and especially the cowboys.
Rangers fans especially, I aint never seen rangers fans until they got good the last decade. I hate being in the AL west with the rangers and MLB trying to start a rivalry with them.
This is what I find most amazing. If this isn't earning it I don't know what is.
Thats because Gulf Coast is Best Coast!
Also amazing is that SI cover from 3 years ago:
I mean everyone who wins earns it, but I think if you look at like the NBA east, like no one challenges whatever team Lebron is on. VS the west is a murderers row. There's been some easier paths to championships but I cant think of any right now. Hell the dodgers didn't get much resistance from the diamond backs or cubs this year.
Don't pretend LA hasn't had many, MANY sports championships in recent history.
Eh, depends for me. I guess growing up as a primarily NBA fan, with Dirk, Yao, and Duncan as the faces of those 3 franchises that are all pretty tough to hate helps out.
But a part of me views the success of other teams in Texas as, at the very least, elevating that rivalry. Rockets-Jazz is a really intense rivalry, but not enough people know about it because the two teams don't have enough rings.
Plus yeah, the whole Texas thing.
Idk, there's a reason why I said it depends per person. It's like rooting for the team that eliminated you - on one hand, they eliminated you, and there was probably a lot of trash talk being exchanged, and on the other hand, losing to the champions in some ways makes your loss feel a little less bad. So it depends situation to situation.
same here. always good to see the city break through in houston sports
