When I first read this story, I was irrate. I get that the Astros have been crapped on by Bud Selig and it has probably thrown them out of whack. I think we all get it. My furor didn't stem from the Astros preceived since of injustice, but the way in which they've dealt with it. Making a t-shirt is juvenile, counter productive to the task at hand, and accomplishes little more than making you look like a cry baby. So it was appropriate that the club house was decked out in "Bud Killed Us" t-shirts. Why? Because the club house was full of baseball players who were giving up on themselves and their fans because they can't overcome the hand that they were dealt. It's shameful and disgraceful and it has almost made me side with some of those Cubs yahoos from the other day.
Grow up.
Some times professors arbitrarily change deadlines or throw crap in on the test that you have no idea where it came from, but the guy has tenure and he's not going anywhere. Collectively bitching about it and crying on each others shoulders gets you no where, except an embarrassing five game losing steak that has the potential to hold you out of the play offs -- something which seemed so tangible a week ago. The college analogy aside, I'm sure everyone can internalize that analogy to fit their own lives. When stuff like that happens, every day Joe's don't get to show up to work after screwing up for five days straight with a t-shirt that says, "[Insert Authority Figure Here] killed my career." Instead, we all roll with the punches and make do the best we can. Being out scored 38-5 is not doing just that.
To be honest, I'm embarrassed that'd they quit on themselves that way and are now just searching for a scape goat for their own shortcomings. Bud Selig screwed them on two games, not five. I was willing to chalk those two and possibly the first in Miami to Bud, but not those last two -- they were inexcusable.
With that aside, we as Astros fans have every right to blame Bud Selig for precipitating the collapse of the Astros season. Making a T-shirt is mature, highly productive, and makes us look like (wo)men of action. As such, we need a T-shirt to don proudly and let the rest of the world that we're mad as hell and we aren't going to take it any more. With that, I present you the Crawfish Boxes approved, "Bud Killed Our Season" T-Shirt.
Go pick one up ASAP. There are two options for the shirt, the American Apparel with the graphic pictured and then your standard shirt with just the text. However bold you wish to be. Also, there's a female version for the ladies in the audience.
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+1
if this is the kind of backbone our team showed they were never due for a long run in october..
fire richard justice - September 19, 2008
yeah
when i first read about it, i wanted to find a way to jump on board and support the players, but i agree. this just sends a bad message about how they’re handling the situation. i know they got screwed over, but they really should have been able to leave that in Milwaukee.
littlevisigoth - September 19, 2008
You're joking right?
Okay I get that you think it was childish to create the shirts.. but did you know they were created by a single player and given out to everyone in the club house… it’s not like the Astros as an organization created the shirts and told them to wear them. How can you complain that they have a shirt that said Bud Killed Us and complain about that and then come back and create a shirt that says he killed the entire season? That makes no sense.
Concerning the Astros “job”. 1 Day after the hurricane ripped through Houston, the Astros were back to their “job” doing work… you know what my job said? Come to work if you can, take care of your family first. That’s sensible and makes sense and I greatly appreciated my job for it… I was lucky and my family was fine and I had nothing to worry about so I did go back to my job with no worries on my mind(other than a need for finding gas). Not everyone was that lucky.
Give me a break…
Stros Bro - September 19, 2008
Did you even read this article?
You’re critiquing things I didn’t even state?
Stephen Higdon - September 20, 2008
I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I can see Dying Quail’s point. And I certainly would be concerned if the Astros’ players are openly advertising that they have already given up on the season. But I am skeptical that they meant the T-shirts to be taken that way. Without knowing more about the context, I suspect that these are just an attempt at humor which doesn’t look so good when it gets out in the public domain. A lot of stuff goes on in the clubhouse which is intended as humor (and sometimes dark humor) but doesn’t look so great if it gets in the newspaper. Were the T-shirts juvenile? I dunno, maybe. But the clubhouse is home to juvenile stuff. Think about the blow up doll displayed as a slump-buster in the White Sox clubhouse. At one time, a boss was placed in charge of an office where I worked, and many of us who were unhappy with the decision got together for a “party” where we handed out T-shirts making fun of the new boss (with the promise among ourselves to keep it secret). In retrospect, that was juvenile, but it was cathartic. Now that I think about it, I have joined fellow employees in other forms of catharsis that I’m too embarassed to talk about. So, I’ll give the Astros’ players the benefit of the doubt.
clack - September 19, 2008
They were created by Hawkins
he had 60 of them printed and stuck them in each Astros locker.
Stros Bro - September 19, 2008
Get Hawkins signed up for next year.
clack - September 19, 2008
Nuh-Uh
rastronomicals - September 20, 2008
George Bush hates Astros Fans Too
Just like Mayor Nagin said after his people didn’t believe him and stayed thru Katrina. George Bush hates Astros Fans…
It’s that same “It’s someone elses fault” mentality that is killing this country.
Adapt! Overcome! ! Stand up for your actions ! ! !
It’s like that Chargers/Broncos football game last weekend. Yeah – the Chargers got screwed on a “equipment malfunction” instant replay call and got screwed again over a whistle that shouldn’t have been blown…. But if the Chargers had not given up what – 29? 31? points – they would not have been in the situation to lose.
I’ll say it again….
Adapt! Overcome! ! Stand up for your actions ! ! !
the truth is out there - September 22, 2008
That's kind of what I was saying
But thanks…
Stephen Higdon - September 22, 2008
Check it out!
Your shirt got a link and a picture on Yahoo.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/The-Astros-are-not-letting-go-of-this-beef-with-;ylt=AmHP23VdykaoDISbjxuG9ARvLYF?urn=mlb,109538http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/The-Astros-are-not-letting-go-of-this-beef-with-;ylt=AmHP23VdykaoDISbjxuG9ARvLYF?urn=mlb,109538
Xan - September 22, 2008
Crazy
I was in class and I opened up my Safari and there was Lance Berkman. One click later, there was a link the CFB. I about crapped my pants.
Stephen Higdon - September 22, 2008
Reflecting on it right now...
That will forever be my fifteen minutes of fame. It’s a shame too, I’m only 22. What do I have to live for now?
Stephen Higdon - September 22, 2008
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