I got to watch the end of the Hoston/Cards game, it was unbelievable!! One minute Hoston is one out from going to the world series, the next Pujols hits a three run homer to eventually win the game. It was unbelievable to hear the crowd go from deafening screams to silence and shock.

ASTROS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!

I'M SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

Was it me, or was the St. Louis crowd chanting "Let's Go Astros" after the game?

Damn, what a great show of class by Cardinal fans.

All you Anti-Astros (I don't like Texas teams) fans can suck my left nut. The Astros pulled it out, nutted up, and now they're gonna beat the "media darling" White Sox bastards to win the whole damn thing. There is no way that the Black Sox are going to be able to beat Clemens, Pettitte, and Oswalt. If the Sox win the series I won't post on GC for 6 months. I just don't see it happening. GO FUCKIN 'STROS!!!

Hey I was born in Houston! And JR Richard lived down the street from me back in Sugar land yo! His wife use to babysit me while I was poopin in diapers with my left thumb in my mouth watchin Dumbo.

Yeah!!! Go Astros!

Haha, I don't really think there's a media darling in this series. There are also a lot of people who would like to see Bagwell and Biggio pick up a ring. I think both teams have a lot of sentiment going their way.

White sox, media darlings? They aren't even the most popular team in their city let alone anywhere else. Thanks for the laugh though:D

Sorry. I shouldn't have posted when I got home from the bar last night. What I meant by "media darlings" is that I imagine all we're going to hear in the lead up to the Series is how the ChiSox are like the BoSox, and have this long jinx to kill, haven't won a Series since 1917, blah blah blah.

I dont know...the white sox for the most part have been exceptional throughout the season, look what they did to both the Red Sox and Angels in the post season. That on top of several days more rest than the Astros have will definitely work in their advantage.

This isn't football, or even basketball - rest is not automatically a good thing. The Sox starters have worked a LOT recently, and so has the Stros pen, and 2 extra days of rest doesn't magically take 230 innings off someone's arm.

Here are the real issues to watch:

-The Astros hardly ever walk - much of their offense is based around putting the ball in play (similar to the Angels, but with slightly more diversity). The White Sox don't walk ANYONE - the Astros will have to hit for slightly more power than in the Braves series to win.

-The Sox perform very poorly against power pitching, which the Astros have in spades. They also walk about... NEVER, and so are quite vulnerable to the bullpen guys the 'Stros roll out. They are also ridiculously right-handed at the plate, which the Astros will abuse.

-The DH allows the Astros to put their best defensive team on the field at all times, while still keeping their bats there. The lack of DH in the NL park will remove Everett, one of only 2 lefties and one of the only moderate power threats in the lineup. Konerko will have to stroke it.

... This might be the worst-hitting World Series in modern history - the matchup edge goes to the Astros, I would think, but the DH issues traditionally favor AL teams when they have the home-field advantage.

Houston in 6.

I pick the Sox to win.....




....so that likely means Houston will win it all :p

My friend went to a Yankees-Cardinals game in St. Louis with another friend (my diamond sister, who's a big Yankees fan) and whenever the St. Louis fans would boo the Yankees, she said that they'd lean over and *apologize* to her :D

I'd definitely put in a vote for St. Louis having the "nicest" fans! :)

Astros will win it.

in 5 or 6.

In CHITOWN biatch

thats really gay. it sounds as if I was going to take a leak on Busch stadium those pansy fans show me where the bathroom was.

freakin Cardinals fans. Nice guys always finish last. buncha wussies.

Sox in 6.

Whether they are the most popular team in the city is something to be debated about, but they sure have alot of Chicago fans behind them for the world series. Tickets went on sale here in Chicago for the World Series on Tuesday @ 12:00 and at 12:18 they were all sold out for all four games and I don't know a SINGLE person that got through on the phone or online!! My husband and I tried and we even called different Ticketmasters in different states and we still didn't get through any of them. Also, people were only allowed to buy 4 tickets per household, so it wasn't like a hand full of people were calling in a getting a crap load of tickets.
Plus, even though we have two teams here in Chicago I know alot of Cubs fans that are rooting for the Sox to win because between both teams we haven't had a World Series Champ in 60 years!!

GO WHITE SOX!!

Finally I'll get to live in a city with a good baseball team again!

Astros in 5

My call, Stros in 6.

GOOOOOO STROS!