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re: Astros fans, when did you become a fan...?
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:06 am to Hangover Haven
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:06 am to Hangover Haven
1971 Red Rooster was my Astro Buddy
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Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:12 am to Jon A thon
Same as many of you… Astros/Astroworld trips. First one in maybe 95? Got old enough to really understand the game and follow day in day out a few years later which was that great late 90s run, Randy Johnson trade, etc.
Been a fan ever since but I’d be lying if I said I watched many games those first few years without FSSW. Being fricking awful didn’t help… but that 2015 team got me back into it.
Been a fan ever since but I’d be lying if I said I watched many games those first few years without FSSW. Being fricking awful didn’t help… but that 2015 team got me back into it.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:20 am to Hangover Haven
I was a Roger Clemens fan. So I followed his career as a fan. Stuck with the Astros after his run there. Now my son is big into baseball and he loves bregman.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:26 am to oldcharlie8
I wonder how many Louisiana people became Astros fans because Houston was the Summer vacation spot? My dad worked pipelines and the main office was here in H-town. This was probably late 80’s. We would stay by the dome and do the water park and AstroWorld then watch the Astros at night. Good times. Then I moved here in 96 and been pretty much a fan ever since but damn it has been a painful ride for the most part until 2017.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:27 am to Hangover Haven
Nolan Ryan….
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:54 am to LSUFanHouston
Grew up in Houston the 90s watching Bagwell, Biggio, and Wagner. My dad and I would go to a couple games a year in the Dome and they just became my team. Was kind of surprising because my entire extended family is from St. Louis and are Cardinals. My dad always brings up how devastated I looked after Pujols launched that ball of Lidge in the playoffs.
This post was edited on 10/23/22 at 11:55 am
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:54 am to Hangover Haven
Born in Beaumont. First mlb game was in the dome. Been a fan my whole life
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:56 am to Hangover Haven
Not an Astros fan but I have more of an attachment as I got older because I’ve been to so many games over the years, usually to see other teams.
First time I pulled super-hard for them was 1986 because I hated that particular Mets team and time has proven me right.
I didn’t really care about 1980. I liked the Phillies. I liked Steve Carlton.
First time I pulled super-hard for them was 1986 because I hated that particular Mets team and time has proven me right.
I didn’t really care about 1980. I liked the Phillies. I liked Steve Carlton.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:57 am to Hangover Haven
For any Astros fans that may happen to be in NYC today with nothing to do, you could go watch the 'Stros sweep in Yankee Stadium for a little more than a 20 spot. 
Posted on 10/23/22 at 11:58 am to Hangover Haven
I’m with you. I have been listening since the early 70s. I think the announcers were Gene Elston and Lowell Pats. One of them use to say he breezed him one more time after a strikeout. The Dodgers and Reds use to own us every year.
Doug Raeder, Jimmy Wynn, Roger Metzger were among the players I remember.
Doug Raeder, Jimmy Wynn, Roger Metzger were among the players I remember.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:01 pm to Hangover Haven
I’m 28 and I remember my grandpa taking me games and watching the killer B’s. I went to the game after Biggio hit #3,000 and that was awesome
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:06 pm to Hangover Haven
My dad grew up an Astros fan so I got it from him. Almost every summer we’d take a trip to Houston for a few days to watch 2-3 games and do Astro World, Water World, and NASA.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:09 pm to 5 Deep
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2019 after the cheating scandal
Only solidified my fan hood, as I also bang trash
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:10 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
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1) Closet city to Nola with an MLB team 2) Always on TV on Fox Sports Network 3) Zephyrs were affiliated with the Astros for basically my entire childhood
All of these, but watching the likes of Berkman, Ward and others in Nola then getting to see them on tv was something to me as a kid at that time
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:14 pm to Hangover Haven
Colt 45 fan in da house
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:32 pm to Hangover Haven
We had HSN/TBS/WGN in the burbs when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, so the options for baseball was Astros, Barves, Cubs, or whatever ESPN was showing. All of my friends were Barves/Cubs so I picked the Stros because my rebellious attitude and further cemented by family summer vacations to Astro/Waterworld and a couple of night games in the Astrodome.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 12:39 pm to Hangover Haven
The early 90s as a kid when I lived outside of Austin.
I moved around a bit and I spend time living in Houston and Kansas City, so my loyalties have been a bit split between the Astros and Royals.
The Latina gf (who lives in Houston)-no pics, she would slit my throat- makes sure I always have fresh Astros gear. We go to a few Astros games a year when in Houston, and a few Royals games when in KC.
Our household sports are basically Mizzou, Chiefs, Astros, Royals and anything positive that happens for any Venezuelan athlete.
I moved around a bit and I spend time living in Houston and Kansas City, so my loyalties have been a bit split between the Astros and Royals.
The Latina gf (who lives in Houston)-no pics, she would slit my throat- makes sure I always have fresh Astros gear. We go to a few Astros games a year when in Houston, and a few Royals games when in KC.
Our household sports are basically Mizzou, Chiefs, Astros, Royals and anything positive that happens for any Venezuelan athlete.
Posted on 10/23/22 at 1:13 pm to Hangover Haven
I'm a child of Gene Elston and Dewayne Staats
Posted on 10/23/22 at 1:15 pm to Hangover Haven
Early 80s in the dome
Posted on 10/23/22 at 1:29 pm to Hangover Haven
Growing up in Walker in the late 80s and in the nineties, I would listen to games on WIBR 1300AM and would get to watch them on TBS and WGN when they would play the Braves and Cubs, and sometimes on Friday nights WVLA Channel 33 would show the Stros. I was only five when the Astros played in the NLCS, but I remember my dad listening to the radio to get the score.
Most of my family summer trips included going to the Astrodome, then Astroworld and Waterworld. We would always stay at the Radisson and they had a shuttle to the Dome. Those were the best times.
Most of my family summer trips included going to the Astrodome, then Astroworld and Waterworld. We would always stay at the Radisson and they had a shuttle to the Dome. Those were the best times.
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