Only three days left till the beginning of the 2011 Void. Another baseball season has come and gone; Limey’s Scarlett told Ryan she just doesn’t give a damn, Thunderpants is now perfecting his g00gly-eyed face melting roaming of right field as a pHucking pHillie, and Sweet Baby Bourn is tomahawk chopping his way to a possible playoff berth. Despite all of this, we still have baseball. Astros baseball. National League, no friggin DH baseball. Baseball is our one constant through all the years. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past and a part of our future. But enough plagarism, lets get on to the Turdinal bashing….
Archive for the ‘Series Previews’ Category
Cards @ Astros….Don’t Forget to Squush the Turds on the Way Out
Play Shuffle: Rockies @ Astros Series Preview
At the risk of sounding like a certain Apple-whoring Brit, I’ve got a technology story to tell. A friend sent me a Spotify invite about a month ago, and it’s been a huge part of my life ever since. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Spotify is a music streaming service, popular overseas and just recently available Stateside. Everything is on Spotify. Everything. No indie band is too obscure, no B-side too rare. And the way I’ve been using it reminds me of this year’s Astros.
Astros at Cubs – Bear Turds in the Food Chain
This is my last preview of the season, and I’m wrapping up my ninth year writing them. I always figured I would go at least 10 years, so I’d be a 10-year veteran and couldn’t be traded to the fucking American League without my approval. I guess I never figured the Astros themselves would be traded to the AL. Ain’t that a kick in the nuts.
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
PHILADELPHIA Phillies (94-49) at HOUSTON Astros (49-97)
September 12-14, 2011
MMPUS
HOUSTON (SnS) – It is mid-September, and another baseball season is grinding to a finish. The Astros are winding down a particularly unsuccessful campaign. I am not especially dismayed by that, though of course 2011 has been trying at times. Read the rest of this entry »
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I know it’s poor form to post a Series Preview two days before the series actually starts, but that’s just how excited I am to cover the Astros vs the um…the umm…wait, don’t tell me, I know it…Nationals! Yay! Thanks, so much, Limey, for passing this one off to me.
Come On Up To The House: Brewers @ Astros Series Preview
So it comes down to this. The bastards and unwanted children are back from Oklahoma, where many of them would still be languishing were it not for the dismal goings-on at Crawford and Texas. The family favorites have been sitting at the Big Kids Table for a while now, and from the looks of some of them, they ain’t going back to the orphanage anytime soon. The Big Bad Brewers come to town toting the NL Central title belt and a nasty hangover. Let’s give them a Texas welcome.