Beau Holder said:
The Porkchop Express said:
Yeah if Tucker can't hit and Yordan won't take a walk, it will be close to impossible to win.
I've settled myself down. It's playoff baseball. I'm grateful it's here and I think back to myself at age 12 or even in my early 30s after we got swept by the White Sox in the World Series and how much that me would have given for this me's life as an Astros fan.
Let's enjoy the ALCS! These days are numbered, and when they're gone, they're gone. Root hard and believe. That's all we can do.
Same. I feel fairly zen after last year's run and making a seventh straight Astros League Championship Series. Lot of baseball left to be played in this one and these guys have been here many times before.
I still think the Stros win in 6 but even if they don't, I think next year's team will be better and I'm pleased we are where we are.
I remember being at the omega painful WS Game 3 in 2005 and if you could've told my 14-year old self this is what the franchise would look like a few years later, I'd have been floored.
I used to give myself the same self-talk when the Rockets fell off a cliff after Hakeem but before Yao/ Tracy.
I would say, go back to yourself in 1992-ish and say, OK, in the next 5-7 years, we will: Win a championship by defeating the Knicks in 7 games. Trade for Clyde Drexler and win another championship, one of the most improbable in NBA history, in which we beat Utah, Phoenix, and San Antonio without homecourt advantage; trade for Charles Barkley and make the WCF again; and trade for Scottie Pippen as well.
Hopefully this basketball post survives any future purges.
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