:: 10/23/2005 1:19:37 PM http://www.weakgame.com/?show=3691 THE BEST OF QUAGMIRE! If you don't watch Family Guy Q is the neighborhood perv. ... oh the pain of laughter...
The spiral down... it's dark in here! I don't know what to do?! We've never actually won before! Sweetness, joy! I am so about to pop it's unBEElievable. Ok I was sure we were done after the Pujols homer. Even though I/we have had years of training with countless clutch losses, Astros 86, Oilers v. Bills, Phi Slamma Jamma! The Pujoles home run just crushed me. I couldn't even work right the next day! Now we actually do not choke and ... uncharted territory! Ahhhhhh soak it in just enjoy it. I didn't want to miss anything last night I had to be up at 4 this morning but I was just not wanting to miss anything...1am bed. Before that... I heard that Academy would open if the Astros had won to sell pennant t-shirts and the like. I had the bright idea of driving down there, I thought eh... there will be some crowds but it will be ok. I'll fight a little but I'll have me a tshirt that says champion! On the way Angie calls me and tells me turn around they just showed the stores open and the East Side store is not on the list. I decided let me call just to be sure. Two idiot 411 operators and still no answer, ahhh screw it almost there by now... I crest the overpass and WTF there is a traffic jam at the exit ramp, light and into the parking lot! No scratch that it got to be some high scrool hang out or something there is just tooooo many people for this, plus look at that crowd of people in the parking lot of the Whataburger (same parking lot as Academy, Sam's Club, Circuit City and Home Depot)... I press on, people are hollaring and honking horns... and that crowd, uh no try 1/2 mile long line waiting to get in to Academy! HOLY CRAP! I turned around. For those who know where I'm talking about the line wound through the parking lot all the pay to the Whataburger. I am not talking single file here either! It was a crowd, and the parking lot... I was going to have to park at east side of the Home Depot!
...anyway, Astros fans soak it in... this was 44 years inthe making, smell it, sip it, swish it around, then drink like it's the last drop you'll ever get because who knows when it happens again!
One f'in pitch! damn... one pitch! why! As a Houston fan you come to expect these things. Look at last year... had it, blew it. '86 Astros... ughhhhh, Need I bring up the Oilers? Two words Renfro and Bills...but this was different, things were going our way... 18 innings and we won! 3 in a row! 3 to win 1! Lance and the 3 run shot! only one pitch to make it all real... single, walk, bamo... oh yea I am a Houston fan... this is my penance. If we ever make it will be the sweetest, biggest, best, and most! It will be Nirvana even if they lose! Heaven on earth the end all be all... until then there is always next year.
:: 10/18/2005 1:02:21 PM http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/051018 Why do I care sooooo much ... I feel as though even the though of working makes me ill. I have to get throught eh next 2 games and then it's over. We can put it to rest for another year. I hope beyond all hope that I am wrong and anyone with a rabbits foot, voodo doll, chicken leg, stinky t-shirt, or some other item they might have that will help us win well you better get to rubbin' I think the whole country feels sorry for Houston right now... and it doesn't help me feel any better...
I'm not being sexist here. Girls watch a certain kind of movie and get weepy... for guys it's sometime something else, like a good episode of Overhaulin' ... or something like this!
from ESPN
...And Berkman, who grew up in Houston, seemed to sense the meaning of the moment better than any of them.
"People still talk about the 16-inning game they played here against the Mets in 1986," he said. "They even wrote a book about it. Around here, that's regarded as the ultimate playoff moment for this team.
"I just hope that this is one of those games that helps us create our own tradition here." read the rest of the article.
Mix 8, 8 year old boys, a birthday, a sleep over, outdoors! in tents! Add some 8 foot high X-Box games on the side of the garage, a midnight hike through the scary woods behind the house, and a marshmallow roast... do all of this while the Astros are winning game 3! OMG! I'm dead tired! There is lot's more, but I'm to spent to rememeber right now... IF you hadn't gathered it was Dade's 8th birthday and we had a backyard camp out sleepover thingy... it was fun, funny and wild and yes there was fire and a bunch of scared little boys!
Shoot ahead to Sunday and I'm dead tired and the Astros are playing. I sleep. Wake 0-0. Sleep, Wake 0-0 oh bases loaded... CRAP! Salami! 4-0 ATL shoot ahead Angie and I are cleaning the backyard and the guy who looks like me, Lance Berkman, goes slammy too! OMG! 5-6 ATL! 9th inning sitting on the couch bottom, 2 outs, they are going to pinch for Ausmus and put in Bagwell... um no why did they leave Ausmus in... SHIT!!!!! HOME RUN! Anyway one whole game later and at least 2 handfulls of hair, no one left ont he bench period! No one! and Clemmons on the mound! in relief! 18th inning! Chris Burke bang! I'm spent... can't get better right now.
:: 10/23/2005 1:11:01 PM
