It is Over.

Sat. night the Astros won. However so did the Brewers. It left the Astros 3 1/2 games back with two games to go. And that is where the Astros will stay for the rest of the year. Our season is over and now I need to find a new team to cheer for this October. Go Tampa Bay Rays!

My thoughts on your Votes.

This is a post on the last two polls that I had up on my blog. The first one "If you were joining a Medieval army, what would you like to be?" Well two of y'all went with horsemen and two for the archers and just one for the swordsmen. I was not surprised that the spearmen did not get a vote. Seeing as though the spearman's main purpose was to kill the horse that the rider was on, and I know for the most part that the followers of my blog love horses. I am not sure who voted swordsmen...It was kind of a surprise. Archers as I suspected was also a favorite pick.
However the second poll was not so popular. To which I have two words. "GOOGLE IT!" "What is Bobby Thomson's famous three run homer call?" The shot heard around the world. As much as I do not like the Giants, I must say that this is one of my favorite moments in baseball history.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl_3_1.jsp?w=/library/open/moments/bbm_51reg_100351_bknnyg_350.wmv&vid=7808&pid=gen_video&cid=mlb&v=2
This is a link to the recap of that moment, for any of y'all that are interested. You may have to download an advanced video setting but it should not take to long.

Here we go Astros!

The Astros are four games back and have just seven games left. The good news is that the Mets who the Stros are trailing have four straight games against the Cubs, one of the best teams in baseball (this year). Between the Mets and the Astros are the Brewers, who have been free falling in the standings for a long time now. More good news is that the Astros have six "easy" home games against the Reds and Braves, followed however if it is necessary, by a signal game against the before mentioned Cubs. Right now with the way things are looking the best we can hope for would be a tie with the Mets and or the Brewers by the end of the season. I am not sure what happens if there is a three way tie, but if only two of us are tied we get to play one of the most fascinating games in baseball. A one game playoff. Winner takes all the loser go's home. The Astros have only ever been tied at the end of a season for a playoff spot once before. With three games left to the season the Stros held a three game lead over the Dodgers. All they had to do was win one game or the Dodgers to lose one. As it turned out the Astros would be swept in the last three games. But there would have been hope still if the Dodgers lost just one game. Unfortunately the Astros were playing the Dodgers in the last three games so as they lost the Dodgers won. And so they were tied. However this game 163 (it is called that because there is 162 in a season) was not going to be another Dodger win. The Astros pitcher shut them down as the Astros escaped a late season melt down and made it the post season.
But now I have left topic and will not be able to get back on it now that I have made this post to long.

Playing with toys!

We have all played with them. Some of us played with guns and rubber snakes, others played with with plastic horses and dolls, but when it comes down to it we all played with toys. And in some of my reader cases, it may be that they still do play with toys. And after today so do I. I will not go into all the detail on how it came down to it, but as it turned out I ended up being put in charge of watching three young boys for about four hours today. I no longer have most of the toys that I played with when I was their age so for a while I was stump as to what I was going to do to entertain them. Fortunately I still had my Hot wheels sets from the old days. My brother and my younger sisters all once raced Hot Wheels together. For a time it was all that we would do, day in and day out. However I found that the track, that I had stored up in the attic over the years, were in fact all bent and warped by the heat. So I drove down to the store real quick and picked up 10 sticks of track and three new cars for the boys to use. It worked. The boys were so taken with the racing that I hardly had to do a thing at all. But do you think I did nothing? Nope. I was racing my old cars right next to their new cars. I had just as much fun as they did playing with those cars. However I think I had fun for other reasons then when I played years ago. Back then I played to have fun, win and make memories. Today I played to remember the fun memories I had made with my siblings, along time ago. I enjoyed the memory of having fun just as much as I had enjoyed the racing of the cars years ago while making those memories.

Do you get it?

A man is woken up in the middle of the night by his wife.
"Honey? If I died would you remarry?"
"What?" He asked half asleep. She repeats the question. And this time he gets it. "What type of question is that at 2:00 A.M.?" But when asked a third time he answers the question. "Well I am still young... I guess I might." A few seconds later he is asked another question.
"Honey? If you remarry would you let your new wife wear my cloths?" He groans and put his pillow over his head. But his wife ask him again. So he answers.
"I guess there would not be any reason to spend more money on new cloths, so...yes." He almost falls asleep again when he hears his wife again.
"Honey? Just one more question. Would you let her drive my sports car?"
"NO!" He answered.
"But why? If you let her wear my cloths why not drive my car?"
"That just it. If she was already wearing your cloths, she could not drive your car."
"Hows that?" She asked puzzled.
"Because she could not drive in a straight jacket."

Wrigley Field North - better known as Milwaukee’s Miller Park.

Somebody at the Commissioner's office must really not like the Astros. After having our games canceled at home they decided to move three of the two games to a "neutral" park. That is fine in and of it's self. But maybe some where like the Rangers park, or the Twins and even the Diamondbacks home parks would work. But no! They moved us to Wrigley Field North - better known as Milwaukee’s Miller Park. Wrigley Field being the home park of the Cubs the team we just so happen to be playing. Wrigley Field is just 90 miles away from Miller Park. It will be packed with Cub fans. And Home feild advantage is very important for those of y'all how don't know. I cannot help but think Bud Sileg had something to do with it. He being the commissioner of the MLB, was even before that owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. It is the Brewers and the Phillies that we (the Astros) are trailing, and if the Cubs hammer us at Wrigley Field North (Miller Park), then we will be less of a threat to the Brewers playoff hopes. The Brewers would be left to deal with the Phillies on their own, with two games left to a four games set they started over the weekend against the Phillies. Thing are looking a bit better for the Brewers. That was till they drooped the first game today against the Phillies. Oh well. That is my conspiracy theory for the day, that Bud Sileg and the Commissioner's office are trying to set up the Playoff hunt.

Robert L.

Strike three!

Ike swings and misses! Well at least he failed to get us. Not one drop of rain! Not even a gust of wind. Calm, that is the only thing that I can say about the weather, save for the fact that it is hot. It is a good thing that we never got the parts to put the wood up on the windows. Other wise we would still be looking at a lot of work we need to undo.

Robert L.

Four straight, three back and two "Down".

The Astros completed a four game sweep of the Pirates, putting them just three games back of the Brewers who fell to the Phillies 6-3. The bad news however is that the first two games against the Cubs (12th-13th) have been postponed due to Ike.








Oswalt #44 flips the ball to Berkman #17 from his knees after diving to the ground for the force out at first base. Berkman congratulates Oswalt on his second straight complete game shutout. In which he faced only 27 batters. Outstanding!

The Astros high five each other as the final Pirate returns to his dugout after grounding into a game ending double play.

Astros!

The Astros won there fifth straight game overall and third straight against the Pirates Wed. Pictured above the Astros Celebrate after Miguel Tejada #10 hit a grand slam. The Stros are now just four games back in the wild card race and are tied for second overall.

Robert L.

Hurricanes.

No we are not in any danger. We may lose power for a day. A tree might break. No need to fear. Just a reminder we are not in Corpus Christi, we are in Robstwon. The only thing that I am worried about right now is if the hurricane hits Houston. They might have to move the Astros game to another ball park. And with out the home field advantage...Gulp! We will see how things work out.

But there is no need for concern yet, we are taking every precaution to make sure nothing turns out worse then what I am making it out to be. So the boards go up on the house tomorrow, the chickens will have a place built for them in the garage, anything that might move an inch during 100 MPH winds is being secured. So like I said...We will be fine...in the end.



Robert L.

Pirates

Pirates. When most people think of them they think of scum on the high seas. Although I do not have a much different opinion of them I do not think of them as being on the high sea. If fact during the next couple of days I will think of them as the road the Houston Astros have to travel over to make post season play this year. The Pittsburgh Pirates have been a thorn in the side of the Astros for the last two years, handing us more losses then another division foe. And we have seven games with them out of the twenty or so we have left to the season. And with the Cubs and Brewers stumbling as of late and the Astros playing the best ball in the second half, makes me feel that the six game deficit we have in the wild card race is not a long shot. The Astros won't give in and I will not give up hope. The Phillis and the Rockies had great comeback runs that lead to the playoffs last year, with the Rockies making it to the World Series.
So with those two teams in mind, along with the 04 and 05 Astro comebacks..."Go get them Stros!"

Helpful.

In the poll that just closed on my blog I asked the people that follow my blog to vote on what they would like for me to do next on it. In the end I had a tie at 5 votes for two of them. I noted that the first two people to vote, voted for all four of the options. Now I know I made that poll so that y'all could pick more then one answer...but really...When asking for advise it is common to help the person that is asking by narrowing down their question to one or to picks. You don't say all of them at the same time that helps about as much as a kick to the head. :) Anyway, as a result I have gone no where with this last poll. And obviously the people that vote for me to post "Anything and everything have gotten their wish.

Robert L.

Archers at the ready!

This is my bow.