Astros -vs- Sox [Archive] - Front Office Football Central

Cards4ever

10-19-2005, 10:42 PM

I think Houston holds a edge from playing tonight and Chicago being done last Sunday, if they can split in Chicago, they bring the series back to their stadium and a chance to put themselves in the same spot they were in against the Cards.

st.cronin

10-19-2005, 10:43 PM

BOLD PREDICTION

Tim McCarver will be unbearable.

Ksyrup

10-19-2005, 10:44 PM

Does this mean there is no Sunday Night football the next two weeks? I seem to recall that happening recently.

Neuqua

10-19-2005, 10:45 PM

GO CITY OF CHICAGO!

Cuckoo

10-19-2005, 11:10 PM

I'm rooting for the Astros for two reasons. One, because I'm a Cubs fan and hate the White Sox. :) And two, because I think Biggio and Bagwell are two of the good guys in baseball and deserve a title.

ISiddiqui

10-19-2005, 11:17 PM

I thought I'd seen everything, but a Cubs fan rooting for the Astros? Man.

Neuqua

10-19-2005, 11:36 PM

SackAttack

10-20-2005, 01:29 AM

See, Jeeber? I told you my not being able to watch Game Six would be a good thing. ;)

TroyF

10-20-2005, 01:36 AM

Does this mean there is no Sunday Night football the next two weeks? I seem to recall that happening recently.

Looks like only this week. The following week Buffalo at NE is the scheduled Sunday night game.

Izulde

10-20-2005, 03:26 AM

Nobody out here in Wyoming understands my love for the White Sox. When I celebrated after they clinched the pennant, my asshole floormates all looked at me like I was psycho and they didn't give a shit.

Fucking assholes.

MizzouRah

10-20-2005, 08:23 AM

How about them Blues?

:)

I'm watching this one, every game. Don't really care who wins as I like the White Sox and honestly, I would like Biggio and Bagwell to get a ring.

JasonC23

10-20-2005, 08:45 AM

LET'S GO WHITE SOX

[CLAP CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP]

LET'S GO WHITE SOX

[CLAP CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP]

Random thoughts about the World Series:

- My family was rooting for Sox-Cardinals because my wife was born in St Louis, but Sox-Astros should be an incredibly tense series.

- As the playoffs played out, I thought the Sox actually matched up better with the Cardinals, especially with their injury problems. Oh, well.

- The Astros scare me because like the Angels, they're the same team as the Sox (good pitching, eh hitting), but unlike the Angels with no Colon, the Astros' Big 3 + Backe is better than the Sox' Big 4.

- Saturday. Game 1. Chicago. Sox vs Clemens. Awesome. Can't wait. :)

RendeR

10-20-2005, 09:18 AM

Astros in 5, small ball vs hardball, hardball wins.

JeeberD

10-20-2005, 09:36 AM

- Saturday. Game 1. Chicago. Sox vs Clemens. Awesome. Can't wait. :)

Game one is Saturday night? Crap! I have a wedding I have to go to Saturday night...

Cuckoo

10-20-2005, 09:59 AM

Keep in mind their opposition. I can't tell you how hard it is to look some people in the eye when I try to explain why I am excited the White Sox are going to the World Series. I just want some championship love in this great city of ours :)

The Chicago papers are calling Cubs fans that root for the White Sox Bi-Sox-uals. :D

I understand the sentiment, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Maybe if I lived in Chicago, I would feel differently though. My loyalty is more to the Cubs than to the city so the Astros are kind of the lesser of two evils. Other than Oswalt and Clemens, I like the majority of their players.

Coffee Warlord

10-20-2005, 10:01 AM

Nope. Can't do it. I'da rooted for the Sox if the hated Cardnials went to the Series, but in this situation...GO HOUSTON!

JasonC23

10-20-2005, 10:39 AM

Game one is Saturday night? Crap! I have a wedding I have to make any excuse possible, no matter how blatantly obvious and pathetic, to get out of going to Saturday night...
Fixed it for ya. ;)

Hammer755

10-20-2005, 10:59 AM

Rooting for the Sox in a big, big way. Most of the Astros fans I know are utter a-holes, and a championship would increas their a-holiness exponentially.

pennywisesb

10-20-2005, 11:08 AM

Go Sox! I think both teams match up well against eachother and this SHOULD be one of the more exciting WS in a long time.....

LoneStarGirl

10-20-2005, 11:12 AM

I have to work Saturday night! What terrible scheduling.

Raven Hawk

10-20-2005, 11:16 AM

Wow! I never knew it, but I'm Bi-Sox-ual.

To be honest I'm not a big baseball fan. Before the Sox made the playoffs the last baseball game I watched was Florida eliminating the Cubs two years ago. I rooted for the Cubs when they made the playoffs and I'll root for the Sox in the Series.

GO SOX!

JasonC23

10-20-2005, 11:22 AM

Rooting for the Sox in a big, big way. Most of the Astros fans I know are utter a-holes, and a championship would increas their a-holiness exponentially.
One nice thing about the Sox playing the Astros is that I know no one who roots for Houston, so this won't happen to me if the Sox lose.

Another nice thing is that outside of Clemens (whose ability I am in awe of, but whose personality I find as endearing as a sports hernia), I'm having a hard time finding anything to hate about the Astros. I always prefer to have my team play a team I respect, so if my team loses (and it's the Sox, so normally they do indeed lose), I won't be physically ill if they do. This is why I ended up being very happy it was Sox-Angels and not Sox-Yankees in the ALCS.

All in all, I have no idea who's going to win the Series, but every game is going to be incredibly tense and down to the wire, I think.

sterlingice

10-20-2005, 11:24 AM

Game one is Saturday night? Crap! I have a wedding I have to go to Saturday night...
Jeebs, you've got 2 options as I see it:
-Mini tv ("Do you see any reason why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace" *home run* "Yes! Yes! Yes!" *shock and gasps* "Oops, my bad. Keep going, preach")
-Come up with some sort of excuse. This is a once-in-a-lifetime shot for the Astros as they haven't made it to the World Series ever. But if the marriage doesn't work out, there could be 2 or 3 more that you go to ;)

SI

Huckleberry

10-20-2005, 11:27 AM

Other than Oswalt and Clemens, I like the majority of their players.
What possible reason is there to not like Oswalt? I honestly don't know. I recall there was an incident with the Cubs, but IIRC, Oswalt hit a guy in the calf, Wood came back and broke our shortstop's wrist in the next inning, and then 4 innings later Oswalt his another Cub. The only thing Oswalt did wrong in that situation was he didn't plunk Wood in the head.

As for Clemens, I'm a Longhorn Astros fan and I can't say I care for the guy as a human being.

sterlingice

10-20-2005, 11:28 AM

- The Astros scare me because like the Angels, they're the same team as the Sox (good pitching, eh hitting), but unlike the Angels with no Colon, the Astros' Big 3 + Backe is better than the Sox' Big 4.
This series looks really good on paper. Sure, the Astros have 3 really awesome pitchers but they still really have only two hitters. The White Sox have that "share the wealth" type offense where Konerko and Dye had big numbers but then there's like the 5 or 6 guys who had between 15 and 25 homers so there's power throughout. They aren't exactly the getting-on-base types, tho, and against good pitching, that can be a big problem. On the other side of the ball, tho, the White Sox pitching is returning to the form it had most of the season so they'll never be out of a game. Should be a close and well played series throughout. Hopefully some really exciting pitching duels.

SI

Hammer755

10-20-2005, 11:36 AM

What possible reason is there to not like Oswalt? I honestly don't know. I recall there was an incident with the Cubs, but IIRC, Oswalt hit a guy in the calf, Wood came back and broke our shortstop's wrist in the next inning, and then 4 innings later Oswalt his another Cub. The only thing Oswalt did wrong in that situation was he didn't plunk Wood in the head.

As for Clemens, I'm a Longhorn Astros fan and I can't say I care for the guy as a human being.

I spent a lot of time at MMP last season, and I can say without question that Oswalt is the biggest jerk on the team. That's not a tremendous accomplishment considering the rest of the team is pretty likable, but Oswalt is just not a real nice guy.

Cuckoo

10-20-2005, 11:41 AM

I spent a lot of time at MMP last season, and I can say without question that Oswalt is the biggest jerk on the team. That's not a tremendous accomplishment considering the rest of the team is pretty likable, but Oswalt is just not a real nice guy.

I, of course, don't know him personally. But with other athletes that I don't care for, it's often about demeanor. I have no problem with a pitcher protecting his players and retaliating when one of his is plunked. And although I don't remember the exact incidents with Oswalt's throwing at Cubs hitters, I remember him doing so in a way that wasn't simply protecting his own and then was very arrogant and condescending when questioned about it. His demeanor most definitely rubs me the wrong way.

Mr. Wednesday

10-20-2005, 12:18 PM

The Chicago papers are calling Cubs fans that root for the White Sox Bi-Sox-uals. :DThat doesn't seem right, there's only one set of Sox involved. True Bi-Sox-uals should be rooting for both the White Sox and the Red Sox. :)

davidlando1

10-20-2005, 12:33 PM

My take is White Sox in 6. Clemens will probably win game 1, and the Astros will probably win whichever game Oswalt pitches. GO SOX!

JeeberD

10-20-2005, 02:17 PM

These make me smile... :)

http://www.flowcal.com/keithschool/wsastros05.jpg

sterlingice

10-20-2005, 02:21 PM

Along with that $185 price tag?

SI

JeeberD

10-20-2005, 02:31 PM

Oh, those aren't mine. No way in hell I could afford those tickets. The guy who posted that pic said that he saw tickets going for us much as $13k on e-bay... :eek:

Cards4ever

10-20-2005, 02:48 PM

I saw on a brokers site that tickets were 1,000 each at Comiskey, I'm not sure what they are at the Juicebox cause I looked before the Cards were eliminated.

Hammer755

10-20-2005, 03:13 PM

I had a ticket to Game 3 of last years Series (scheduled matchup - Pedro vs. Clemens) if it would have happened. This year I'll be in Calgary when the games are going on. :(

LoneStarGirl

10-20-2005, 05:18 PM

LoneStarGirl

10-20-2005, 05:19 PM

This series looks really good on paper. Sure, the Astros have 3 really awesome pitchers but they still really have only two hitters. The White Sox have that "share the wealth" type offense where Konerko and Dye had big numbers but then there's like the 5 or 6 guys who had between 15 and 25 homers so there's power throughout. They aren't exactly the getting-on-base types, tho, and against good pitching, that can be a big problem. On the other side of the ball, tho, the White Sox pitching is returning to the form it had most of the season so they'll never be out of a game. Should be a close and well played series throughout. Hopefully some really exciting pitching duels.

SI

SI, you said you were an Astro fan! No way can you say the Astros only have 2 hitters. MAybe tthrough out the season, but during the post season everybody has produced. Garner himself said Ausmus was his best hitter in the Braves series and didn't Biggio hit 3 doubles in one game? In yesterday's game every starter but Lance got a hit, so I would say right about now the Astros have a whole line up of hitters.

Vince

10-20-2005, 07:19 PM

I love it -- if I could have picked two teams that I wanted to see make the Series when the playoffs started, these were the two I would have picked.

Go Astros! And somebody plunk A.J. Pierzynski multiple times.

LoneStarGirl

10-20-2005, 11:27 PM

Another nice thing is that outside of Clemens (whose ability I am in awe of, but whose personality I find as endearing as a sports hernia), I'm having a hard time finding anything to hate about the Astros.

I dont know why Clemens is so unliked around here, other than the Piazza thing a couple of years ago. He does SO many great things around Houston, he has been on TLC numerous times building houses for homeless people and redoing rooms for kids with cancer. He has a couple of charities he has started to help people who need him. In every interview in the post season he has been humble and tried to put the spot light on other Astros. He has been nothing but admirable during his tenure as a Stro, and I personally adore him.

ISiddiqui

10-20-2005, 11:30 PM

And on the other side, I despise Roger Clemens so much that I'm rooting for a White Sox sweep. :p

Bearcat729

10-20-2005, 11:54 PM

I saw on a brokers site that tickets were 1,000 each at Comiskey, I'm not sure what they are at the Juicebox cause I looked before the Cards were eliminated.

Stub Hub has them at $500 to $2500 in Houston and $700 to $10,000 in Chicago

Cards4ever

10-21-2005, 02:49 PM

Not bad in Houston, if I was a Stro fan and lived close to Houston, I'd go for it, you only have limited opportunities to see you team win a championship.

JasonC23

10-21-2005, 02:50 PM

I was seriously contemplating starting a new thread called "Asshats -vs- Sex."

It's been waaaaaaay too long since the Sox played and I'm waaaaaaaay too hyped about the Series. Just being, already!!

cartman

10-21-2005, 02:59 PM

Next week will be the first World Series game on Texas soil. Hope the Astros do the state proud!

This could be a banner year for sports in Texas! Here's the outlook:

MLB - Astros in World Series
NBA - San Antonio won the championship
NFL - Cowboys are looking like a potential playoff team
NHL - It's too early to tell what the hell is going to happen in hockey
Coll. Baseball - Longhorns won the CWS
Coll. Football - Longhorns currently #2 in BCS
Coll. Basketball - Longhorns preseason #2 in many polls

Ksyrup

10-21-2005, 03:40 PM

Astros in 5, small ball vs hardball, hardball wins.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "hardball," but this notion that the White Sox are a "small ball" team simply because they have a lead-off man who steals a lot of bases and they sacrifice more often than most AL teams, doesn't mean they are necessarily a small ball team. They hit 200 HRs this year, far more than the Astros. In fact, their ability to play both ways is a huge part of why they were so successful this year.