irish pete ag06 said:I was at this game... its when DARRRRRSHHHHHH was born.Farmer1906 said:
We saw Darvish twice this year.
June 2nd
5 IP, 7 Hits (McCann, Altuve, Gurriel all with doubles), 3 Runs, 8 SO, 1 BB, 1 HR (Correa), L
June 12th
7 IP, 1 Hit (Correa with a double), 1 Run, 4 SO, 3 BB, 0 HR, W
That's a pretty big drop from where prices were Sunday and Monday.Farmer1906 said:
Prices seem to be dropping slightly. You can get a seat for $604 after fees.
This almost always happens. I got in to Game 2 vs the Yankees for $130 about 25 rows up from 3rd base because I bought 45 minutes before the game. I wouldn't be surprised if you can get a seat for $500 if you're watching stubhub/seatgeek etc all day.WES2006AG said:That's a pretty big drop from where prices were Sunday and Monday.Farmer1906 said:
Prices seem to be dropping slightly. You can get a seat for $604 after fees.
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There's no place like Houston, the most American city in the world, really, with all the good and bad that conveys. Like Memphis, its music is not just entertainment but a moan and wail from the guts of the place: dirty sounds like ZZ Top and DJ Screw and Albert Collins, soulful country like Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett. What other city could produce both Beyonce and Kenny Rogers? Listening to 97.1, the classic country station, while driving near the edge of town, always makes me feel like the radio isn't playing in the car but rather in the sky. Glen Campbell's "Galveston" might be about Vietnam, or about the Civil War, or the Crusades. Houston is a city that shakes off easy attempts, such as this one, to define it, the kind of place where, after living such big American lives, people as divergent as Howard Hughes and Lightnin' Hopkins can find their final resting place, just a few miles apart.
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Houston is, most of all, a city of survivors, which gives the city its energy but also infuses everything with a hardness -- or sadness, as Long Chu describes it -- some sort of understanding that life is a tragedy broken up by moments of joy and light. When people call a city tough, or gritty, or "Clutch City," as the T-shirts call Houston, that's what they're talking about: a civic understanding of both the game and the score, like when the local team plays a World Series game and an entire area code just stops.
It sounds cool and people like saying it.Mr.Bond said:
Ok I'm lost. What's up with the dilly dilly? I know it's a bud light commercial
Wright Thompson always has really good articlescoop-aero-06 said:
I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's a great piece from Wright Thompson about the city.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21177825/houston-astros-world-series-run-momentous-occasion-their-city-survivorsQuote:
There's no place like Houston, the most American city in the world, really, with all the good and bad that conveys. Like Memphis, its music is not just entertainment but a moan and wail from the guts of the place: dirty sounds like ZZ Top and DJ Screw and Albert Collins, soulful country like Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett. What other city could produce both Beyonce and Kenny Rogers? Listening to 97.1, the classic country station, while driving near the edge of town, always makes me feel like the radio isn't playing in the car but rather in the sky. Glen Campbell's "Galveston" might be about Vietnam, or about the Civil War, or the Crusades. Houston is a city that shakes off easy attempts, such as this one, to define it, the kind of place where, after living such big American lives, people as divergent as Howard Hughes and Lightnin' Hopkins can find their final resting place, just a few miles apart.Quote:
Houston is, most of all, a city of survivors, which gives the city its energy but also infuses everything with a hardness -- or sadness, as Long Chu describes it -- some sort of understanding that life is a tragedy broken up by moments of joy and light. When people call a city tough, or gritty, or "Clutch City," as the T-shirts call Houston, that's what they're talking about: a civic understanding of both the game and the score, like when the local team plays a World Series game and an entire area code just stops.
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. It's one of the most diverse cities in the country, and not in that smug Ivy League way, but in a real way, where working men and women from all over the country and world fight to carve out a little piece of a new life. It's an immigrant city. Beneath a downtown office building, there's a simple, busy food court: a Chinese dumpling house, a Vietnamese sandwich shop, an Indian place serving Mumbai and Delhi street food favorites, a shop selling Italian meatballs.
He's the best there is at hanging out somewhere or with someone for a while and seeing the whole picture. His Tiger Woods story is still one of the best sports pieces I've ever read.gougler08 said:coop-aero-06 said:
Wright Thompson always has really good articles
BMX Bandit said:Quote:
. It's one of the most diverse cities in the country, and not in that smug Ivy League way, but in a real way, where working men and women from all over the country and world fight to carve out a little piece of a new life. It's an immigrant city. Beneath a downtown office building, there's a simple, busy food court: a Chinese dumpling house, a Vietnamese sandwich shop, an Indian place serving Mumbai and Delhi street food favorites, a shop selling Italian meatballs.
Yep, although I'm sure it's more for Houston, than the Astros in particularNotGibbs said:
I could be wrong, but I think DeAndre actually has a stros tattoo
NotGibbs said:
How did this not get noticed earlier?
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A third guy, standing at the bar, says he just feels hopeless -- not about the game so much as everything. "It's just one of those nights," he says. "I have existential dread. Just end it now. With the rest of my misery."
cone said:
I live within all of you.
You know it to be true.
I want to be in a group text with this guy or at least follow him on snapchat or something. Dude was the best annoying other team fan I've ever witnessed!astros4545 said:irish pete ag06 said:I was at this game... its when DARRRRRSHHHHHH was born.Farmer1906 said:
We saw Darvish twice this year.
June 2nd
5 IP, 7 Hits (McCann, Altuve, Gurriel all with doubles), 3 Runs, 8 SO, 1 BB, 1 HR (Correa), L
June 12th
7 IP, 1 Hit (Correa with a double), 1 Run, 4 SO, 3 BB, 0 HR, W
My buddy already greeted me this morning in our group text with a Daaaaaarrrrssshhhh
