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Maybe some new digs

Will give us better karma

Should change the title to

Astros making amazing comeback

1st.
Actually 3rd

Boom.

GAY
Lay off the sexuality references

Comments can’t be in love with each other…I don’t think.

Comsexuals.

Hmm… needs work.

i symptom of blogophilia
Comosexuals!

It practically writes itself!!! lol

not even close
I wonder

What the record is for most Crawfishboxes.com posts during a game thread?

I'm looking it up
that first milwaukee game

got pretty extensive. But a lot of posts ended up getting killed because Cubs fans are dicks

We could be getting close tonight

I’ll ask the tech team if they can help identify the record.

8-4

1 out in 5th… Soriano on 1st…

Ortiz walks Fukudome. 2 BBs in a row.

Come on Russ...
JD calls for Stephen Drew to have a ...

“monster year.”

must be on JD's fantasy team.
Unfortunately

He’s on HLP’s in our keeper league.

Welcome clack.

And how many years have you had this keeper league… just curious.

2nd year

but third year with the same group of guys

Lee pops out to Berkman...

2 out. Runners still on 1st and 2nd.

Bradley up.

Ok

The inquiry to the largest gamethread ever proved more difficult than I thought. The tool doesn’t do that.

quitter
Hahaha

You could go through every post ever and keep track of which has the greatest comments, I want to watch baseball.

JD discussing the merits of platooning...

in terms of LaRussa and the Cards.

Says you can save money since neither players are “front line starters” in terms of salary. Guards against injury, etc.

Interesting stuff.

JD's smart

Actual player knowledge meets an willingness to entertain and synthesize objective knowledge.

I was talking about that in the last thread.

I really like him.

Sweet Lou gets upset about a foul call down the 1st base line...

he might have a point.

yeah

but fuck him

Sweet Lou is mad

when there’s not enough raisins in his raisin bran.

P.S. double steal...

runners 2nd and 3rd.

Sampson

Already getting abused this season.

meh

he only had one pretty short inning last night

i wish i could see this game

kind of…

i guess

Ortiz walks Bradley...

Sampson on the way.

Bases loaded...

and it was a good walk. He tried to make Bradley chase, but Bradley’s got good plate discipline.

He’s the key to the 2009 Cubs. So says I.

There is no key to the Cubs season

It’s just a matter of when they choke.

Sampson coming in

73 pitches for russ

Good game for Russ.

Got us back in it.

Too bad Ortiz didn't start the game instead of Moehler.

He leaves with bases loaded….as JD said, his results will look either good or very bad, depending on what Sampson does here.

Either way...

his line will look better than Moehler’s.

My bad for the com

“stupid face” next time then. I’m really just jealous that I’ve never gotten a “1st” even though I’ve tried dilligently on Yahoo OMG! pages with subject matter ranging from Brad Pitt to Linsdey Lohan.

*Lindsay
Umm...

I’m gonna need a ruling on the use of “Nerd”?

Knock yourself out
We Need

a medical dictionary

I'll un1st

if it make you feel better?

God...

Look at Sampson’s ears on Yahoo’s sports channel. Those can both double as gloves.

Alright Only_A_Lad goaded me into an attempt

Unfortunately, GameThreads don’t show up in the archives. The world, may never know.

boooooooooooooooooooo

that was a strike

2-2 to Ramirez...

then 2 fouls… then Pudge goes to the mound to discuss candlesticks.

Liner off the wall...

2 run double. Too bad, Russ.

Damn. Damn damn damn.
Aram made a hole in the wall with his hit.

bases loaded is a tough situation for Sampson because he doesn’t strike many batters out.

Can we get a graph update?
british squad looks good for TUF 9

baseball makes me sad

Your wish, my command

i wish we go 158-2

make it happen

im not good at math
Why the 2?

This game isn’t lost…yet.

well i think that theyll let the CB All-Stars play before the break
i got right field!
Ramirez and Fontenot combined for 8 RBIs

Can’t Doc Brown just fire up the Deloran and tell Coop to bean them each at bat?

KAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZ
Matsui HR.

We need some baserunners for these HRs.

Front row in Crawford Boxes...

and every time I type that, I have un-type crawfish.

Me too

I say that all the time in person, people just look at me.

same here

it’s a better name, anyways

Does anyone know

How rastro came up with that?

Magic?
love for the food of the Gulf Coast?
God I miss the food of Texas

Philly Cheesesteaks are what I imagine Satan’s pole tastes like.

lol

New Orleans has pretty much the same stuff as Houston. The seafood’s a little better for the Mexican is much worse. Red beans and rice rock.

I know. 3 solo shots.
Kepp grounds to 3rd...

now only hitting .750.

kepp finally makes an out
Put Blum in!
HAHAHA

If you don’t bat over .700, you don’t play.

as Wiggy learned so well until August last year
Fukodome did that little hop

don’t make me hate you, Kosuke

Berkman flies out to Fukudome...

who had a Soriano-type hop.

It’s contageous.

MLB.TV must be way behind

Berkman just now coming to bat here

It's Joe...

everyone, act like we’re not here.

Shhhhh!

Turn the lights off!

I'm depressed

Because I’ll have to go with MLB.tv next year and my experience is that it’s always behind.

Fat boy with a 2B
Soriano played that pretty poorly.
nice fielding, douce

you gotta cut those off, Alfonso

So far in this game, Keppinger's reputation as a lefty-killer

seems right on.

I like

I like….if only Blum were a righty killer.

Come on Miggy

Get those 2 back.

He doesn't...

end 5th.

10-5.

10-5 isn't impossible.
Does anyone know when MLB will be on Sirius finally?
Why is Sampson still in?

Do they want him to fall apart in June?

Then Backe can take his spot.
I shuddered as I read that.
Shuttered*
the d's.
I've learned most of grammar since coming on board here.
I pay schools to teach me.
So have I

It just doesn’t stick as well as public shaming on a blog.

True.

Sorry to be a shamer.

Personally

I think he works well as a long reliever, so long as you don’t overuse him otherwise

Tejada...

one hell of a throw.

nice play by Tejada
By the way...

top 6. 1 out. 10-5 still.

wow, an overflow gamethread

We used to never have these with Stros Bro and rastro.

DQ & HLP – Did you guys go beat the bushes in San Marcos for closet ’Stros fans to swell the ranks this season?

southeast texas

finally got the internet!

unfortunately

now we have to use that thar devil’s box to access the tubes.

Hahaha

No…I don’t know that many exist there. Everyone we saw was just drunk.

I think the Yahoo! deal is really helping a tremendous amount.
I type...

a lot.

And post… even more.

Tex

When was it that you showed your face around here?

I remember something set you off and you started posting.

Was it the Garner/Purpura firing?

Dunno...

I wandered in from HogsHaven (Redskins) sometime last year.

I tend to go off about weird stuff. No idea which you remember.

Lilly done...

Hoffpauer (sp?) PHs and flies out to Pence.

Lilly’s line: 5 IP, 8 H, 3 K’s 0 BB… and in line for the win.

chapter 108656

on why pitcher’s wins and losses are stupid

Haufpair with a flyball to Pence.

When it came off the bat, Sampson had a “oh, oh” look on his face. But it came down inside the park.

I mean "uh, oh"
Shoulda hit it to left...

everything’s been going out over there.

Sampson's giving us his O face
David Patton is on...

I know nothing about him.

Primed to get crushed
woohoo!

predictions going pretty well tonight

I was about to say

I WAS RIGHT

He is one of the reasons Gaudin was released.

This kid is just out of A ball. And he is greeted with a HR by Pence.

Pence homer.

another solo shot.

Pudge is gonna do a redux
Not if he swings at that crap
ah

that explains why the singer looked like dorothy, then.

Jesus that;s four with no one on base
highlights for a team with low OBP and good slugging.

ladies and gentlemen,your Houston Astros.

Looks like the HR hit someone on the head.

Maybe it bounced off someone’s noggin.

never tell me the odds
Everytime it goes up...

the Cubs smack it back down. (That’s what she said.)

Another laughing in library.
that...

that just sounds painful

HAHAHAHA

I’ll refrain, they went up by 5% though.

coming back

Astros are looking more confident than the Cubs.

Insert verbal onslaught
I like your thinking.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Joe

This is not the thread you’re looking for

*Jedi Mind Swap

Joe... I mean... are you a closet Cubs fan?
Joe

One word: Progressives.

There’s my feeble attempt at an antidote.

Jason Smith PH.

JD says Hampton should’ve got the AB.

Smith K’s on 3 straight. JD was right… again.

Be feelin really confident if we didn't give up that 2 run double.
Jason smith

I don’t know who you are or why you’re on the team, but you have to avoid looking that ugly during an AB.

I really don't know why he's on this team

He offers nothing….NOTHING

Except being old
everytime he bats, I ask, why is he on this team?

I would have preferred Maysonet as a utility infielder. Truthfully, we probably would be better off with another pinch hitter like Gall, Abercrombie, or Saccomano.

Question

Should Ortiz have been pulled after giving up four in the first inning?

Or perhaps after putting one on base in the second after giving up four in the first inning?

Er...

Make the Moehler

That was Moehler.

And he was pulled.

Coop gave him a chance...

he lost his stuff.

No

He was pretty solid after that.

He just shouldn't have been allowed to go that long.
Oppps miss read the inning.
I thought we were really talking about Ortiz

But in the second.

I mean...

Everytime a pitcher gives up more than two in the first inning, I have nightmare flashbacks of Jason Jennings.

Hahaha

You’re just stoking the anti-Joe faction.

I wouldn't trust a cubs fan with a space shuttle

too much choking

I talked to the same Astronauts that were there for Roger's first game in 2006

When I was working at the Tx State Capital…the only question I asked was what it was like to meet him. They were pissed.

pfft

space is boring. But Roger Clemens is a fucking legend.

My point exactly.
Did you say to them:

“Are you boys with the space program?”

"I'm an astros fan, too"

no you’re not, shut up

Why Patty?

Why?

Soriano double off the wall.
Geary is boring.
He's the anti-Roy
no shit

hurry the hell up

Fukudome grounds out to Geary...

1 out.

Top 7, 10-6 Cubs...

1 on, 1 out.

Geary faces Lee.

geary, you've got like three different pitches

and there are only four places you’re going to throw it to. What the hell is taking so long?

Geary slows everything down...

including the comments here.

you can hear the crowd getting restless

when Geary pitches.

well, at least he got a K
Lee K's.

JD makes a bad Twins joke.

Looking ahead

Hampton starts on Friday in SL, then Roy, then Wandy, and leaving Mohler/Ortiz Hampton & Roy for Pittsburgh?

We really need for Hampton to step up!

God I hope he does
like I said

Oswalt then Wandy and then pray for rain.

We need a monsoon season
Or...

Wandy and Roy, and then “Oh boy!”

Poor, starving college student moment

Out of food, out of money: eating a can of spinach for dinner.

I work

and am eating popcorn

pretzels

twix and doctor pepper here.

I picked up Pokey Jo's barbecue for the game....

but it caused me to miss the broadcast of those horrible first two innings…and listen to Milo from my car. Milo seemed to miss quite a bit of what was going on.

spinach is probably good for you.

when I was in college, beans and rice were the staples of students scraping by.

Ramen.
Out.
How are you out of Ramen?

They last for centuries. Stock up, son.

I'm a peanut butter and honey guy

I subsist on that, but I can’t go to the store to get more peanutbutter with the game on

JD talking OPS in regards to Bradley.

.999 last year.

i'm tellin' y'all

next ’stros manager: Jim Deshaies

I would be SOOOOO happy with that.
as I said last night

the price would probably be Bill Worrell doing color again.

Unless they could get Dierker to do it again. That would be cool.

But it would be repaid with intelligent managing of a baseball game
Especially

If he could get Jim Hickey back as pitching coach.

no shit
Hickey's got a good gig in Tampa.
I was just thinking that

He has an instinctive feel for what will happen in a given situation.

FINALLY

they get Bradley out

Patton back...

faces Kaz. Hits 94 on the gun.

Number of comments in a typical game thread

I’ve been around since the offseason after the World Series. This is just my perception of how things have gone since then:
~ 100 posts is a typical game thread
~ 150 when we draw folks over from BrewCrewBall or BleedCubbieBlue (collectively known as BCB)
~ 200 for really exciting parts of the season, like the last week and we have to win every game to possibly have a shot at the postseason.

I’ve seen probably less than a half dozen overflow threads.
I’ve never seen 200 posts in the overflow thread before, which is where it was at a moment ago when I looked.

clack, StrosBro, or rastronomicals can probably confirm, maybe even entropic soul

Either we’ve got a lot of new blood this season or ya’ll have gotten talkative.

I post a lot.

And, unfortunately, can’t blog every game.

Last night's was 450+

Interesting that we’re all talkative right now.

Early in the season.
Have any of you ever seen someone

they knew personally in a baseabll game crowd shot?

Yes

Saw my brother-in-law -- sleeping!

Yeah

My friend was at the 18 inning NLDS game, I saw him twice.

I had a ticket to that game...

it still bothers me I didn’t go. I forget why I couldn’t. Probably blocked it out.

astros are a grand slam away from tying it up.

first the astros have to figure out how to get players on base before hitting the HR.

Or...

hit 4 more solo HRs.

That might be a record in its own right
that was some nasty stuff

berkman struck out

So have we reached the record number of posts yet?
let's just say we have
on a shitty game, too

of course, it probably wouldn’t be as extensive if the Astros hadn’t kept it interesting

I thought it was going to be dead when I turned in the TV
Hooray...

back to the game.

Wesley Wright in

give him a hand, everybody, he’s only 14!

Wright in.

Give up a single that almost hit him.

Fontenot flies out to Bourn.

10-6, 1 out in the top of the 8th.

God.

Wright has to live with that Yahoo profile picture ALL SEASON LONG

Pizza and Wings

I love you JD.

JD's keys to pitching fitness:

Pizza and wings.

unbelievable play by Tejada.
beautiful play

absolutely beautiful

Another nice play from Tejada...

his range is pretty impressive for an old guy.

hell

jeter couldn’t make that play in his prime

Did Jeter have a prime?
not defensively
Tejada looking

5 years younger than whatever his age may be

Well...

he is from the DR.

A Yankee fan

who was at a ST game in March was heckling Tejada about his age. Tejada looked at him while signing autographs and said, “just watch me play.”

Go Wesley!

undoubtedly my favorite reliever

No retakes?

We had those in elementary school… and for some reason, I had to do them almost every year.

HAHA

Exactly..ALL SEASON LONG

I’d ask for a reshoot on photo make-up day.

Oriental eyes with Dwight Howard's smile
Wright K's Hill.

Mid 8.

Still 10-6 Cubs.

Ortiz ties Lidge for K's by a reliever...

With 6.

Marmol on. Gregg available tonight? He pitched the last 2 nights.

I heard that too, and it's hard to believe.

I mean, I would have thought some reliever would have more than 6 Ks over the last 50 years or whatever.

Stupid desserts.

I gave up sweets for Lent… you’d think an Astros telecast would be safe.

i gave up jalapeno potato chips

sunday’s gonna be AWESOME

Bob's?
zapp's
Try Bob's.

You’ll die or cry.

Or both.

I'm hungry now

I do not envy the indigestion you will have on Sunday night.

lol

but getting there’s gonna be sweet.

Chocolate coma...

that’s what I’m betting on.

Speaking of indigestion

Plucker’s killed me.

It's all about timing.

I gave up sweets, have had the flu twice and couldn’t have eaten them anyway – thank you, Jesus!

Lee pops to 1st.

1 down. 5 outs to go.

Miggy up.

Grounds out.
Pence double.
There you guy Hunter
Pence gets a double

because Soriano fucking sucks. YES!

3 outs left.
Plenty of time to mount a come back.
Friday, for example.
Hahaha

I’m an idea man, I don’t need your negativity.

Bourn

is only hitter in starting lineup without a hit

I think I pulled a Joe...

and jinxed him.

Top 9...

10-6.

I asked my ex if I could propose at an Astros game

I think that’s a reason she’s my ex.

Wedding proposal ended in tears...

for those of you not watching, I’m not telling you who was crying.

wedding proposals again...

I want to see another one of those proposals where the woman throws the popcorn in the guy’s face and walks out….remember that scene from last year?

Who could forget?
Anyone have a YouTube of it?
I couldn't find it on You Tube...

but I found this rejected proposal at a Rockets’ game. I had never seen it.

not cool, JD

we try not to bring that up

i didn't cry

but I did have a friend who got pretty teary-eyed

?

No sound anymore.

he mentioned

pujol’s hr against lidge

Fukudome HR to 'Stros bullpen...

11-6.

Tejada misplays Lee's grounder.
Astros falling apart in the top of the 9th

jut when they were about to launch the big comeback

brocail just having a tough time finding the zone
3 outs, 5 runs

…no problem?

okay

5 runs needed, but the ’stros can do it.

Brownie says

Cubs haven’t won a season opening series since 2003 … pity!

All the Astros have a hit

5 HR how could we not win this game?

bourn singles

and gets down the line really fast.

"Cecil Cooper really loves his bench."

wow.

I thought the same thing
That's an image I don't need
fielder's choice for kaz

gets bourn at second

Astros didn't lose...they just ran out of outs.
kepp grounds out

that’s all, folks. Something of a miraculous comeback for the ’stros. Certainly not a moral victory, but it was a fun game.

Come back

It was a good one. We just need SP. If it was not for that hole made at the start of the game, we would have won.

Post-Game Thread is up

Here.

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