Sweet USENET post from the Houston Astros Newsgroup:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

This series is far from over. There is no way the Astros are going to
lose tonight. That just wouldn't be their style. Instead of losing and
putting me out of my misery, they will find a way to win the next 2
games, and get my hopes up just enough to get crushed once again.
You'll see, after the Astros win the next 2 there will be talk of..."we
feel pretty confident going to Chicago with Pettite and Oswalt pitching
the last 2 games"

Then, in Chicago, they will have a 38-0 lead with 2 outs, nobody on,
and 2 strikes with a quadriplegic ball girl at the plate. Which will be
followed by 42 infield singles to slowly suck the life out of me.

Oh well, at least we have a kick ass football team.

[NYC Liberal]

1. Are you SERIES?!!?!

*duck* Sorry!

[PDittie]

2. *sigh*

Isn't it enough that we have to live among the very worst of the Republicans and endure the heartbreak of rooting for teams who almost (but not quite) get it done?

You'd think we could be spared the sneers and taunts of DUers, but noooooooo...

[NYC Liberal]

3. Welcome to the Club

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. It's not meant as a taunt, I just enjoyed this Astro fan's sense of humor.

[Reciprocity]

11. I feel your pain.

Most DUers have no ideal of the amount of abuse we Texas democrats take on this board nor do they care. I opened this thread ONLY because it had the word sweet in the title. That said I have only seen the bitter.

[Samurai_Writer]

5. There's a reason Houston is called "Choke City"

And it's not because of the air pollution.

After living there for 26 years, I've seen it too many times to not agree with the USENET poster.

[PDittie]

6. The name is Clutch City

and if you lived here when the Rockets won back-to-back championships, you would've remembered that.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I liked those Hakeem teams. Even more so for the fact that they swept

the Shaq-Fu Magic.

[PDittie]

9. And the Knicks.

That second year, they came out of the 5-hole. Dream got a fingernail on that John Starks jumper in Game 7 to seal the title.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. ROTFL!

That, sir, is some good writing!

"quadriplegic ball girl at the plate. Which will be
followed by 42 infield singles to slowly suck the life out of me"



Wish I had written that!

[trackfan]

10. DU must seem like pat-a-cake after USENET

Those guys are tough! I've posted on some groups since 1995 and am still flamed as a newbie if I dare have anything to say.