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Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:13 am to Hangover Haven
Dating myself, but around the time I could understand what being a fan meant.
Think the Rockets were first, Oilers and Aeros definitely 3rd and 4th.
I remember 07-10 got a cursory glance, gave no love from 11-14, think I finally got back to see a game in 2015.
Think the Rockets were first, Oilers and Aeros definitely 3rd and 4th.
I remember 07-10 got a cursory glance, gave no love from 11-14, think I finally got back to see a game in 2015.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:16 am to Hangover Haven
Went to my first MLB game in the mid 90's at the Astrodome, had the Killer B's of Bagwell, Biggio, and Bell.
The Zephyrs were the AAA affiliate in New Orleans so they were the home town team.
The Zephyrs were the AAA affiliate in New Orleans so they were the home town team.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:32 am to McCaigBro69
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This entire thread is likely false. Astros posted numerous 0.0’s in tv ratings during their tanking years.
Not saying there aren't bangwagon astros fans, but it is not my job as a fan to watch a team that is intentionally losing their 100th game. No one is watching a tanking team that wasn't on TV for most people on an NFL Sunday. When I say it wasn’t on tv, over 50% of Houston didn’t get root sports at the time
I went to a decent bit of games during the tanking era, a close friend met his wife at a game we went to then but that was because I was broke and it was all I could afford to do socially.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 9:39 am
Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:52 am to Dire Wolf
Started following the Astros when they were the Colt 45"s. Sonny Jackson, Jimmy Wynn, Larry Dierker, Rusty Staub, Joe Morgan. I remember listening to the first preseason game in the Astrodome. Yankees were playing and Mantle had the first home run hit there if I remember correctly.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 9:53 am to Hangover Haven
Bagwell and Biggio. Must of been 1992. Been a fan ever since.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 10:53 am to Hangover Haven
My grandpa took me to my first MLB game, had only been to Zephyrs games before, just so happened to be Altuves debut
Posted on 10/25/22 at 11:09 am to BullHornSports
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1992
Ken Caminiti
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:29 pm to Hangover Haven
As a kid in the 70's as well. We had a Houston TV station in Lafayette and I would watch the games with my father. Attended my first at the Astrodome in '75. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world walking into that dome and seeing the field and those glorious uniforms. No other sport or team mattered more than the Astros to me.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:35 pm to CelticDog
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astronauts would have been the better name for me than Astros. what's an astro?
Astros = Astronauts
Mets = Metropolitans
Expos = Expositions
Reds = Red Stockings
it's really not that hard
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:39 pm to Hangover Haven
A couple days ago when they beat the Yankees. I'm trying to make the move from a Yankee fan to an Astros fan. They had no chance when they were in the NL, but now that they are AL and some family lives in Houston. I am trying to like them. Thank God they don't wear those terrible uniforms or play in the Astrodome anymore. I barely know any players anymore. I just can't keep up like I could when I was in high school and college.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:44 pm to Obi-Wan Tiger
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Early 70s. Would say my first game was 1973 maybe. We were horrible but the worst player on the bench might as well have been Babe Ruth to 8 year old me.
Stayed up many a night listening to Gene Elston on KLVI 560 out of Beaumont (Gene >>>>>Milo) when I should have been sleeping. Loel Passe was great too. “Now you chunkin em”
Cesar Cedeno was the shite in those days and JR Richard was a youngster but you could tell he was going to be the man.
Then came Jose Cruz and the 80s heartbreaks. Cruz was and still is my favorite Astros player. Blowing the Phillies series was brutal and I still have hate for the Mets from 86.
Still remember the sights and smells of the Dome (cold air would be blasting when you walked in out of that hot arse parking lot) and even though MMP is better from the fan experience I find myself missing it at times.
The scotch flowed and the room got dusty when Yuli squeezed that last out in 17.
Brother, this almost made me cry. My sentiments exactly on each and every point. Sights and smells and the cold air entering the Dome. Cedeno, Cruz, Richard, Watson, the Red Rooster, I could go on and on.
And I still hate Del Unser and the '86 Mets ! But not as much as the Dodgers who still cry after losing on their home field.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:57 pm to Hangover Haven
All of my family were Cardinal's fan, even the maid. I started as a Tigers fan because they were playing the Cardinals, who I loathed, and I was on a LL team named the Tigers. Went to a Colt 45's game as a kid but it wasn't until the dome was built and the Astros came online that I became a fan. My parents took my brother and I to the All Star game in the late 70's at the dome. Used to always see a weekend series vs the Cards every year in May. Pissed me off when they forced Crane to move the team to the AL when he bought the team.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 1:09 pm to BullHornSports
The first time I saw him walking on at space treadmill…… Dot oh never mind you’re talking about the baseball team.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 2:39 pm to OWLFAN86
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a long-term Astros fan hates the dodgers and the reds
You bet they do! I still have PTSD from that blown lead in 79(?) to the Reds. 10 game lead at the 4th of July. I thought that was insurmountable at the time. To this day I hate the Dodgers more than any professional team on the face of the earth. You can imagine how I cried after the final out in 2017.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 2:47 pm to KingBarkus
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a long-term Astros fan hates the dodgers and the reds
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To this day I hate the Dodgers more than any professional team on the face of the earth. You can imagine how I cried after the final out in 2017.
ETA; I didn't hate the Reds as much b/c they beat the hell out of the Dodgers most of the time. I was still young but realized those Reds teams were something special. Now after 79 I really started to hate the Reds, mostly b/c of that arrogant turd Ray Knight (see 86 as well).
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 2:50 pm to 91TIGER
This thread is an early nominee for "Most Lies in a Single Thread" for 2022
Well done, folks
Well done, folks
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 2:55 pm to mylsuhat
No shite. The majority of Louisiana didn’t flock to the bandwagon until 2015. But they have all been “fans for life” 
I can’t wait to post pics of how empty the park used to be once everyone claims I am wrong
I can’t wait to post pics of how empty the park used to be once everyone claims I am wrong
Posted on 10/25/22 at 3:06 pm to redneck
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No shite. The majority of Louisiana didn’t flock to the bandwagon until 2015. But they have all been “fans for life”
Winners always attract the casual fan. However, there are a lot of posters in this thread that actually have been Astros fans for life, you can tell by the stories they provided. I see you are a Saints fan, you couldn't find a handful of them in the 70's thru mid 80's, but that wagon got full in the early 2000's. I hated the Saints and will admit it, I was an Oilers fan. We only had three games on on Sunday (Saints, Oilers, and the double header on either CBS/NBC). The other was usually the hated Cowboys or the Dolphins.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 3:23 pm to Hangover Haven
Man. Richard Hidalgo, Tony Eusebio, Moises, was Mike Hampton the best hitting pitcher of all time? Brings back great memories.
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