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Astros Are Texas Toast
News And Notes From A Crazy, Crazy Game • You know what would have been kind of funny? If Astros manager Phil Garner, just a split second after throwing that chair, realized that Craig Biggio's wife had been standing right behind him. "God-DAMN it ... oh. Uh, sorry, Patty." • Does that home run p...
Previewing The Inevitable Umpiring Fiascos
As mentioned regularly here, we're not that much into gambling, mainly because we find watching sports stressful enough without our parents' rent check riding on it, but thankfully our pals at Oddjack has a stronger taste for vice than we do. And he has unearthed a useful tidbit today, one we've a...
Sky Closing In On Astros
For the first time this postseason, the roof at Enron Field/Dick Cheney Field/Minute Maid Park will be open this evening, and that has just about everyone but the White Sox unhappy. In the other postseason games, the roof was closed, and it made for a deafening atmosphere that greatly benefited th...
That Taste? It's Veggie Deep Dish
In the best response we've seen yet to FOX broadcaster Tim McCarver's ultimate foot-in-mouth moment last evening, the mad, depraved geniuses at Yard Work put on their miner's helmets to figure out what, exactly, that taste was in Brad Lidge's mouth that McCarver declared "not there."...
World Series Roundup: McCarver's Buckner Moment
We don't mean to shrink last night's Amazing Scott Podsednik Moment into a moment of media criticism, but you're all going to be talking about it this morning, so we might as well lead off with it. Right before — like, a split-second before — Podsednik homered off Astros closer Brad Lidge, Fox bro...
World Series Pants Party: White Sox vs. Astros
Well, someone's going to end a whole lot of frustration in the next week and a half, so even if the folks at FOX probably aren't that happy, the rest of us should have a grand time in the White Sox-Astros World Series. This is one of those great World Series where you can kind of sense that fans o...
Great Weekend For Houston's Foot Fetishists
Nothing more classy than Texans, we tell you. As a show of solidarity with the Astros as they prepare for Game 1 of the World Series tomorrow evening, Houston mayor Bill White is encouraging all local residents to go sockless for Games 1 and 2, calling it a "No Socks Weekend."...
Liftoff In Houston
We congratulate the Houston Astros on their first-ever trip to the World Series; we're happy for Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell and all the fans who have suffered through some truly heartbreaking moments. You're going to the Series, and if you ask anyone other than a Cardinals fan, they'll tell you...
The Game That Wasn't Supposed To Be
Well, here we are, just a few hours from gametime at Busch Stadium — gametime at Busch Stadium ... never have we been more thrilled to write that phrase — and we still can't quite believe Game 6 of the NLCS is actually happening. The Astros have to still be reeling from the unprecedented series o...
The Morning After
This is exactly what we did last night, when David Eckstein had two strikes on him in the ninth inning against Brad Lidge: We shut off the television. Watching your team make the last out to end a season — particularly one that's on the road after an immensely frustrating series, particularly when...
Will Cards Return Home To See Busch Off?
Well, tonight's the night when we'll discover if Busch Stadium, the home of the Cardinals since our father was 16 years old (and the place we spent pretty much every other summer Sunday afternoon until we were that age), will be torn down without Cardinals fans truly being able to say goodbye. Aft...
NFL Roundup: Some Pretty Skunk Weed
• Ricky Williams had six more yards yesterday than he's had droning "60 Minutes" profiles about him in the last year. So you know. Fortunately, that eight years is still about 50 less than the interviews Esquire writer Chris Jones has given about smoking pot with Williams. Maybe Ricky will catch u...
Playoff Roundup: Sad Birds
Thoughts on a weekend of baseball that can only be described as "grueling:" • Now, we're Cardinals fans, we've made that clear, so grain of salt, all that. But the way that game ended yesterday was just flat-out mean. Whatever your thoughts on the umpires — we tend to cut them slack, because they ...
Blogdom's Best: Houston Astros
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chronicling the ins-and-outs of everything. Deadspin salutes these modem-addled souls and proudly presents Blogdom's Best, given to the most outstanding b...
Sanders Gets To The Ball, Then Explodes
Thoughts, Perceptions and Gripes from a series-tying 4-1 Astros victory over the Cardinals in the NLCS last night:...
Reminding You Once Again: The NLCS Is On
We didn't think we were doing a very good job of hiding this, but some of you still wondered, so we'll make it as plainly obvious as we possibly can: We are rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals. As you might have guessed from the Reggie Miller corn maze item earlier today, we are from America's Hea...
Playoffs Pants Party: Cardinals vs. Astros
Well, fortunately, we have F/X. Like last year, the Cardinals and Astros are playing a game of their NLCS on an obscure cable network that's up there near the Outdoor Life Network. But that's fine: It's only the playoffs. Anyway, this is a rematch of a series last year that, since apparently nobod...
Playoff Roundup: We Warmed Up For The 19th
• We had to run out to see In Her Shoes in the ninth inning of the Astros-Braves game yesterday. Brad Ausmus was coming up, so we knew we wouldn't miss anything. Anybody catch what happened? • Our favorite part of the game is that if the game went so long that Roger Clemens wouldn't have been able...
Live Blog: Braves vs. Astros, Game 1
If you're stuck at work at 4 p.m. ET or fortunate enough to live in a time zone that doesn't involve staying up past midnight just to watch a darned playoff baseball game, we're here to help. We'll be live-blogging Game One of the Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game. We will do our best to appear m...