I wish my Grandpa was still alive for this. He died right before the 2015 season. I spent so many springs and summers over at their house watching the Stros growing up. He is the reason I'm a big Astros fan. I miss him so much.

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Thank you Astros & thank you TexAgs. This board & the TAMU baseball board keep me going. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I love this game.

I remember loudly booing every Dodger announced at an All Star game growing up. Gotta teach my boys why we despise them. Never forget '81.

I wasn't able to participate in the thread due to watching the past few games with the few real friends I have, but man this is awesome.

T & P for friscodick. We need him back by Tuesday, staff!

Anyone order some World Series gear yet?

Really nice article on McCullers, his curveball, his approach and the tandem starter approach last night.

saltydog09 said:

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Anyone order some World Series gear yet?

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20 minutes after the game ended. Got the all blue hat with World Series patch on side and the blue shirt with WS on it

Keep in mind.. we dominate west coast teams this year.

Raised by a single mom. Even though we lived in Lake Jackson at the time she signed me up as an Astros buddy (Biggio was my buddy) back around 90 and we drove up for the games that came in the package, and did it every year. Moved to Clear Lake in high school and we went to even more games every year. It was the one thing that really brought us together.

I was living in Alabama 05 when we went to the series and it made me sad I wasn't here to watch it with mom.

Moved back to Houston about 10 years ago, and we have made it a point to go to several games every year.

This season, her and I have been to every post season Home game and we have tickets for the WS home games. Last night was one of the best feelings I have ever had, getting to experience that with her.

mathguy86 said:

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Really nice article on McCullers, his curveball, his approach and the tandem starter approach last night.

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McCann wasn't even giving signs anymore. During the Judge AB they showed a close up of McCann and all he did was nod as if to say "you know what to do, mother f%cker"

My perspective is a little different (well, probably a lot different, to be honest), and I am definitely happy for all of you long-timers who grew up with the Astros.

I moved to the area in my late 20s in 1997 for work after moving to B/CS sight unseen in 1992 to go to A&M for grad school...grew up in Alabama and had no connections to Houston at all.

In the deep South, it was the Braves on WTBS, and that was pretty much it. Watching them suck for so long, then watching their rebuild take hold in the early 90s was fun.

The Astros were an acquired taste, although I do remember watching the 80 and 86 LCS and feeling sorry for them for losing in such painful ways. I didn't feel that emotionally attached to those late 90s teams because I was new to town...I was happy for the diehards and glad to see the city see some success, but I felt like that was for "y'all", not so much for me.

I grew up 350 miles from the nearest MLB park, so being able to attend Astros games easily was a treat, and did so as often as time and money allowed. I was at the game when Craig Biggio got his 3000th hit and until the last week, that was my best Astros memory...being a fan of the history of the game, I was going to try and be there for that.

I bought a partial season ticket in 2013, felt like I was in on the ground floor of something, and it was going to take time...the "process" shirts at the team store, enduring some hellacious beatdowns and hoping that guys like Matt Dominguez, Jason Castro, Lucas Harrell, Brett Oberholtzer and Bud Norris would be the future.

I wasn't sure in 2012, 2013 if Altuve could sustain his hitting pace. Silly me in retrospect. It's been fun watching this team get built piece by piece and last night was the latest culmination.

Now to finish this off.

Anyone else wake up like...

This is great, but man winning the whole thing would just complete my sports fandom I think (that's without a Texans Super Bowl win as well). Parents signed me up as an Astros Buddy as a kindergartner in 1986. Glen Davis was by far my favorite player. Was at the Dome to see Nolan's 4,000th K as a youngster. In HS, a bunch of us fans from Katy HS during the summers created the Astros Junkies Club and we hit as many games as we could, typically the day games.

I recall the 18 inning game against Atlanta the most. To this day I still feel as a lifelong Stros fan that was the game that had all the feels. We had been so good to only have advanced once before in the playoffs. I was in OKC for work that week, and was in my hotel room at the Crowne Plaza on Northwest Expressway, and when Burke hit that homer I guarantee everyone on my floor heard me, and whoever was below my room was probably pissed from all the jumping.

I haven't lived in Houston since 2005, but I still follow this team like I'm there. I can't quit Astros.

mathguy86 said:

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Really nice article on McCullers, his curveball, his approach and the tandem starter approach last night.

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They don't mention it in the article.

But 24 consecutive curves to close the game. He was a f'ing video game pitcher last night.

I liked it when Lance almost dropped an epic F-bomb during his post game interview with Rosenthal.

He was so jacked up but he managed to catch himself.