[AGL] Could be the final out
Igor Loving
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Tue Oct 18 17:08:06 EDT 2005
The Boston Braves? Or the Miller Walkie Braves?
Charlie Loving
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From: <i>"Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com></i><br>Reply-To:
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<div><font face=Arial>Connie,</font></div>
<div><font face=Arial>Now you know how we Braves fans feel year in and year
out.
Our champagne is so old and has been iced down so many times the labels have
peeled off and it is probably flat...Don't forget, we were one strike away
from
game 5 in Atlanta when the wicked whims of sport rose up and bit us in the
ass.
I still am not convinced that the best team won that series. Bet you a
dollar
the Cards wrap it up tomorrow tonight.</font></div>
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<div><font face=Arial>Still, all things considered it is very nice to spend
every summer with your team in first place coasting toward October...and the
inevitable. We don't have the baseball season lingering into football season
either, altho I would like to have that problem again someday.</font></div>
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<div><font face=Arial>Baseball nut since the age of 8 in NM,</font></div>
<div><font face=Arial>G</font></div>
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<div style="font:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="background:#e4e4e4;font:10pt
arial;font-color:black"><b>From:</b>
<a title="connie_3c at yahoo.com" href="mailto:connie_3c at yahoo.com">Connie
Clark</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a
title="austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net"
href="mailto:austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net">survivors' reminiscences about
Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:20
AM</div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AGL] Could be the final
out</div>
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<div>The hometeam crowd was ready with the champagne on ice. In the 8th,
we were one strike from winning the pennant and the Astros to the
Series for the first time. So off to St Louis to try again. </div>
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<div>Baseball doesn't get much more exciting - and/or disappointing -
shocking
- devastating...</div>
<div>aargh!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Connie</div>
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<div><br><b><i>Igor Loving <<a
href="mailto:lovingigor at hotmail.com">lovingigor at hotmail.com</a>></i></b>
wrote:</div>
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style="padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px;border-left:#1010ff 2px solid">Then
there was the ninth inning at Minute Maid Park.<br><br>I wandered into
the
Hole in the Wal a watering hole on Gaudalupe<br>Street here in Austinl.
the
Astros and St. Louis playoff game was on<br>all the tee
vees.<br><br>There
are sometimes when baseball has real drama. Here were the Astros<br>the
only
professional baseball team I have ever watched in person more<br>than 20
times over their 45 years. They started as the Colt 45's as<br>you mayl
recall and they played their games in the<br>eigth wonder of the world
starting in 1968 when they became the<br>Houston Astros. My historic
dates
may be a little off. One thing is<br>certian they have never played in a
World Series.<br><br>Anyhow the Astros were down 2-1 going into the
seventh
and 'bingo" they<br>get a homerun with two men on base and go up
4-2. I was
amazed at the<br>rush I got. I actually shouted as did the rest o f the
watchers,<br>"Yeah!, Awright!" and I sat down to watch the
eight and ninth
innings.<br><br>The "Stros" got the Cardinals out in the
eighth with their
best closer<br>(There was an inkling of shakeyness visible so we all
prayed)
and now<br>here we were in the ninth with 2 outs.<br><br>"We can do
it", it
was as if everyone became the pitcher and you could<br>feel the tension
around you.<br><br>No one talked, no one breathed.<br><br>One out away,
from
the first World Series ever for the Astros. The Cardinal<br>short stop
gets
a hit with a full count. The next guy walks. Oh dear!,<br>We have seen
this
before. The next guy to bat is the MVP of the<br>league. There are two
strikes now...one strike away from the World<br>Series for the Astros:
and
wouldn't ya know it, he hits a homer....<br><br>"Astros loose,
Astros
loose."<br><br>Damn. Every emotion you can have, and in only thirty
minutes
of watching<br>some meaningless game. Or is it really all that
meaningless?<br>--<br><br><br><br><br><br>Charlie
Loving<br><br><br></blockquote>
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