[AGL] Could be the final out

[Gerry]

Connie,
Now you know how we Braves fans feel year in and year out. Our champagne is so old and has been iced down so many times the labels have peeled off and it is probably flat...Don't forget, we were one strike away from game 5 in Atlanta when the wicked whims of sport rose up and bit us in the ass. I still am not convinced that the best team won that series. Bet you a dollar the Cards wrap it up tomorrow tonight.

Still, all things considered it is very nice to spend every summer with your team in first place coasting toward October...and the inevitable. We don't have the baseball season lingering into football season either, altho I would like to have that problem again someday.

Baseball nut since the age of 8 in NM,
G


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Clark 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:20 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Could be the final out


  The hometeam crowd was ready with the champagne on ice.  In the 8th, we were one strike from winning the pennant and the Astros to  the Series for the first time.  So off to St Louis to try again.  

  Baseball doesn't get much more exciting - and/or disappointing - shocking - devastating...
  aargh!

  Connie


  Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:
    Then there was the ninth inning at Minute Maid Park.

    I wandered into the Hole in the Wal a watering hole on Gaudalupe
    Street here in Austinl. the Astros and St. Louis playoff game was on
    all the tee vees.

    There are sometimes when baseball has real drama. Here were the Astros
    the only professional baseball team I have ever watched in person more
    than 20 times over their 45 years. They started as the Colt 45's as
    you mayl recall and they played their games in the
    eigth wonder of the world starting in 1968 when they became the
    Houston Astros. My historic dates may be a little off. One thing is
    certian they have never played in a World Series.

    Anyhow the Astros were down 2-1 going into the seventh and 'bingo" they
    get a homerun with two men on base and go up 4-2. I was amazed at the
    rush I got. I actually shouted as did the rest o f the watchers,
    "Yeah!, Awright!" and I sat down to watch the eight and ninth innings.

    The "Stros" got the Cardinals out in the eighth with their best closer
    (There was an inkling of shakeyness visible so we all prayed) and now
    here we were in the ninth with 2 outs.

    "We can do it", it was as if everyone became the pitcher and you could
    feel the tension around you.

    No one talked, no one breathed.

    One out away, from the first World Series ever for the Astros. The Cardinal
    short stop gets a hit with a full count. The next guy walks. Oh dear!,
    We have seen this before. The next guy to bat is the MVP of the
    league. There are two strikes now...one strike away from the World
    Series for the Astros: and wouldn't ya know it, he hits a homer....

    "Astros loose, Astros loose."

    Damn. Every emotion you can have, and in only thirty minutes of watching
    some meaningless game. Or is it really all that meaningless?
    --





    Charlie Loving





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