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  1. 9 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Alvarez's home run was clearly bigger than Altuve's for the very reason mentioned earlier in the thread. You can't be arguing about how Altuve is the greatest Astro because of wins and championships and then turn around and argue that a home run that won the ALCS before a World Series loss is bigger than a home run that won the World Series. 

    we're talking about the dramatics of THE MOMENT so yeah you can. 

    ETA: Chas's defensive gem and Mancini's magical snag at first base were huge moments in that game as well and if either don't happen, we may not remember Yordan's HR the same way. The Altuve moment ENDED THE GAME AND THE YANKEES SEASON.

  2. yep that homer in gm 1 vs SEA made me act a fool in a very public display of Astros fandom and had an entire bar of strangers howling at me. Didn't care, had fun.

    But that didn't send them to the WS. 

    And Yordan's bomb in the WS, as massively important as it was to winning it all, the only way it could upstage "THE MOMENT" of Altuve's HR was for it to happen in the bottom of the ninth.

    We're picking nits here but Altuve's walk-off destruction of NYY and Chapman was just the stuff of little kids'  dreams. 

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  3. 4 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Earl and Nolan might be welcome in the foyer…

    on a tshirt, yeah. 

    Don't get me wrong, I love Earl forever, he literally made me into an Htown sports fan lifer when I was just a little kid, and Nolan was a baseball giant. 

    But as eloquently said upthread, it's THE MOMENTS that Altuve has given us that cements his legendary status. With all the heartbreak I suffered as a kid with the Oilers, Astros, Rockets and Phi Slama Jama Coogs, you learned to always expect the worst to happen when you were most exuberant and anticipating great things to happen.

    Altuve changed all of that. Dream did too, but he had Elie and Horry and Sam Cassell delivering alongside him whereas Altuve has had soooo many huge individual moments on the biggest stage. 
     

    In my mind, the greatest moment ever is ALTUVE HAS JUST SENT THE ASTROS TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!! because that moment made us all little kids again.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    you could sum up altuve's career dominance with one sentence they said last night: "this is altuve's first career regular season game with three homers, of course you'll remember he had a 3-homer game in the playoffs against chris sale and the red sox."  yeah, that's reggie jackson territory and october is what makes you great.  i used to deny that, because of biggio and bagwell, but it's true.

    i loved the 1980's astros, i loved the 1990's astros.  i loved the killer b's.  even derek bell.  i loved how mike hampton could hit, and i loved that moises alou washed his hands in piss.  i loved all that shit.  but this era is different.  these guys are bigtime.  they don't fold in rough matchups in the playoffs or wilt against tough pitchers.  we punish tough pitchers and ruin top closers.  we wreck dreams.

    and yeah, the scandal maybe bonded us fans closer to the team, and maybe i have some bias towards altuve because he not only wore it, but thrived off it.  and i'm ok with that.  the article in the ny post last year hit the nail - "it's time to stop blaming altuve for the cheating scandal.  (1) he didn't use it, (2) the booing makes him better and he's kicking our ass. (3) please stop."

    by all accounts, they are all great players and all great ambassadors of the game and especially great representatives of the houston astros.  who knows how the next several years go, but i have altuve as the goat, and biggio/bagwell on astros mount rushmore.  and everywhere we go, people will continue to boo altuve while he poses for pictures with your kids and signs all their autographs and tosses them batting gloves and jerseys.  that's just who he is, before and after the nonsense.

    It's Altuve and Dream and nobody else is even close

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  5. You guys are so fuckin soft. 

     

    As an Astros fan all y'all Ardmore South mfers can fuckkkk allll the way off but as an objective MLB watcher who's seen plenty of ups and downs from both the Astros and Mariners, get your shit together and nut up. It's baseball, anything can happen in the last month.

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  6. Some of y'all didn't learn shit the last time we all felt great and were giving each other high fives and reach arounds...

    Have you ding-dongs not looked at the upcoming schedule? We're playing a weekend series against the wayward Padres IN HOUSTON while the Mariners travel to Tampa for three and the Rangers get to playOakland at home.

    What could possibly go wrong?

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