Right this year I'm a houston astros fan. why ? 'cause they're all wearing beards :-) (seriously that's the reason)

Will they win - probably not - but I find the ws is much more fun if you take sides :-)

Who else on the forum is a baseball fan ?

most of the astros had beards last year too.

There was one base steal by the Astros'. But it turned out to be a hit and run.

GO ASTROS!!

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is anyone really a white soxs fan in chicago? Everyone i ever hear says they are a cubs fan but since the white sox are winning.....

I think that the relationship between White Sox fans and Cubs fans in baseball in Chicago is the same that the Jets fans and Giants fans have in gridiron football in NYC.  The Cubs and the Giants are thought of as the city's "original" team while the Jets and White Sox are usually followed by people that can't afford to see the other team.

Whitesox won again. Score was 7-6 I believe. I really thought the Astro's were going to take that game for awhile. Wasn't able to see the last of it. Missed the last two and a half innings. When I left it was 4-2 Astros.
Oh well.

Better luck next game.

well I've pretty much left the net alone for the last few days - one of the advantages of living in england. Nobody is ever going to tell you the result of a baseball game - not on the radio or in the street or on television or in the newspapers (which I don't read anyway). So  could video all the games and wath them while I was awake - just as well as game 3 did not finish over here untill 07:30 !

I've got to admit it was one of the best 4 game series I've seen. The astros could have easily won all three of the last 3 games - if only their batters had actually turned up to play. I don't recall ever seeing a more lacklustre bunch of hitters. It said it all when in game 4 they put bagwell on to pinch hit. Once a good player now not. But apparently the best they had left (wasn't he something daft like 2/18 overall in the post season). I honestly can't remember being more frustrated with a team for years - really got me involved and worked up every time they left the bases loaded and got themselves out :-)

So now I have to wait till march and hope to hell that someone decides to broadcast the world classic - Just the idea of team america losing a baseball tournament makes me grin all over :-)
Though i suppose it depends on who the defected cubans will play for :-) Could be 2 cuban teams - now that would be cool !
Although I think the current odds on favourites are venezuela or the dominican republic. Wonder if they are using the dh rule - if not that pretty much rules out david ortiz which would be a shame.

So basically that's it for me now for sport I watch on telly till the 5 nations rugby tournament starts :-(
Although we do get some super motocross and the x-games, so probably not as bad as first thought lol
And one of these days I'll have to learn to appreciate the bits of ice hockey that don't involve punch-ups lol

geez what happened to this world sereis I didnt even know it happened! the first few games of pigskin were more publcized.  My thought is that two teams were playing that know one gave a rats ass about.