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Woah

We need some redemption. I’m still mad at Nelly Cruz’s no flyball catching self.

It’s more fun to read the posts. And I promise you, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of it.

Yet it’s 6 years later and an irrelevant controversy is still in a lot of Stros fans heads. I don’t care about the Astros or Astros fans. I certainly don’t care if they root for the rangers or not. But it’s hard to “get stros fans out of my headspace” when salty Astros posts have made up about 25% of my fb feed for the last 3-4 days. They’re inescapable and hilarious, and many of the more delusional ones are centered around the topic I mentioned above.

dude is an embarrassment.

this is accurate. it's been about 90/10 for me on salty vs not salty. which, I would be salty too if we'd lost in seven, at least to some degree. But so help me, I'm sick and tired of this following logic: Astros Fan: "Oh my god, it was 2017, get over it, and quit talking about the cheating. There's only two players on the roster now that were on that team." Same Astros fan 20 minutes later: "There's no way I could ever root for the rangers. back in 2017 they wouldn't switch home and homes with us during Hurricane Harvey." That's the most hypocritical and nonsensical logic I've ever heard, and Reid Ryan's representation of how all that went down was BS anyway. But astros fans think everyone should forgive them for blatant cheating due to it being years ago, while they get to hold a ridiculous grudge against the Rangers for a much more minor offense that occurred the same fricking year. But I think we can all agree that the rangers not switching home and homes with the stros (for various reasonable and logical reasons, and while offering all proceeds from the series to Houston hurricane victims) is WAAAAAAAAY more unacceptable that committing one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history to win a world series 🙄

Tarkington graduated 4 starters from last year's 3rd place team and you're picking them first? I know nothing about Tarkington, but this seems optimistic unless I'm reading something wrong or you had a typo.

1. Beaumont United 2. Galena Park North Shore 3. Humble 4. Baytown Sterling 5. New Caney Porter 6. Barbers Hill 7. Dayton 8. Port Neches-Groves 9. Texas City 10. Vidor 11. Lumberton 12. Livingston 13. Silsbee 14. Coldspring-Oakhurst 15. Kirbyville 16. Buna 17. Anderson-Shiro 18. New Waverly 19. Warren 20. Timpson 21. Joaquin 22. Corrigan-Camden 23. Hull-Daisetta 24. Leverett's Chapel 25. BMT Legacy

I am as well. They were a 30-win team last year without a single bad loss on the resume. They lost some key players, but as someone else stated, TABC usually puts more stock into what happened last year than what you have coming back, and they had a really solid year last year.

For what it's worth, he went off the advice of a board of a health board, as well as mental health officials. It sounds like the 11-year-old mother is already a boatload of trouble who would be worthless in raising the child, and her parents aren't any better.

there are some outliers, most astros fans fall into one of three groups... the extra salty group is the one rooting against Texas... the all things Texas group will root for the Rangers to bring it home for Texas, and the "if the stros aren't in it, who cares" group that just won't watch.

Rangers have been super streaking the last several months. Hopefully the 3-game streak to houston is their only losing streak of this post season.

If the rangers can get a couple arms for the bullpen there's a really good chance we run this series back next year. I'm hoping so. This was as exciting of a series as I can remember in my lifetime, and I felt that way BEFORE we put it away last night.

Yeah, they are. Not much in the farm system. I still think there’s a good chance we run it back next year. The year after will be interesting for y’all

😉

What a rollercoaster season. Get out to a huge lead, then literally every all star on the roster (and there were a bunch of them) gets hurt. Blow the huge lead, losing something crazy like 16 of 20 or something, to the point where they’re almost out of the playoff picture. Get hot, somehow build an almost an insurmountable lead going into the last series of the season, and blow that two. Then get hot, but blow a 2-0 lead to go down 3-2 to the stros, only to take two in houston and advance to a World Series in a year where 80 wins would’ve been a nice improvement. This team has given me heartburn, but I’m loving every minute of it!

Shoulda never started him to begin with. I’m okay with the first game, but this went exactly the same.

lets go to the casino

as a kicker, I will say this... if you pass up the opportunity for your kicker to kick 30-40 PATs throughout the year, you better hope like heck you don't end up in a playoff game needing a 25-yd fg to win as time expires.

I looked up the numbers as soon as you made that statement, as that one line was basically the first line of your statement. it certainly stood out. At this point I don't care much about the astros one way or another beyond being in the Rangers' way, but I do get tired of their fans pretending that it wasn't all that big of a deal what they did, which is a constant. Or pretending that the cheating didn't make a difference in an attempt to legitimize the championship, which is exactly what you did there when you said that the cheating didn't change the outcome of that season (also a constant among many stros fans). I'll always see it the same way that everyone who doesn't cheer for the astros sees it, and you'll always see it the way that only an astros fan can see it. It is what it is. None of this takes away from the fact that astros have had a damn good team for the better part of a decade, and that they've been good without cheating for the majority of it. It's been a heck of a series. Hopefully my boys come out on top.

He knew about it. He won games because of it. He got rbis because of it, and he scored runs because of it. He won an AL MVP because of it. And from everything I've read and seen, he didn't cheat "as much." But even if he never got a single trash can text message, he benefitted too much from it, and was complicit through his silence. As for the documentary, I haven't watched it, and doubt I will, but every other source online still says that they did in fact use cameras throughout 2017, the 2017 post season, and part of 2018.

Simple logistics says this is a false assertion. In the 2017 playoffs the astros... went 2-0 at Minute Maid against Boston, 1-1 away. 4-0 at Minute Maid against NY, 0-3 at Yankee stadium, and 2-1 at Minute Maid against the Dodgers, 2-2 at Dodger stadium. 8-1 at home, 3-6 on the road. Despite the fact that was still a very good team without the cheating, and that they were good on the road, the astros won two series 4-3. All of this to say that if the trashcan effected the outcome of even one home game against new york, it's the only reason they advanced to the world series, and if it affected the outcome of even one home game against the dodgers, it's the only reason they won the world series. Given that the astros won four 1-run game and a 2-run game at home during the 2017 playoffs, I'd say its basically an impossibility that the trashcan didn't change the result of a single game, which is the only statistical way that it would be possible that the cheating "didn't help them win a world series." Disclaimer: I had to go look these numbers up. I'm not so hellbent on hating the astros that I have this stuff memorized.

Every team in baseball had steroid junkies, including the astros. During that era it was essentially a level playing field, because EVERY team had multiple players juicing. It's called "The Steroid Era" for a reason. If it came out that the rangers were all using steroids, and only a couple of other players in the league were, and they won a world series, I would look at things differently. Likewise, if all 30 teams were going to extreme measures in 2017 to steal and relay signs (not your typical runner on 2nd situation), I would look at the whole situation differently.

Is there some proof out there that Garcia has cheated? Even any discussion of it being a possibility? Because if not, this is a ridiculous question designed to once again try and minimize the seriousness of Altuve's (and the astros as a whole) mistakes.