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Who are the Astors?

that is bs like having the a yankee sox game moved from fenway to shea. you couldnt play at Az or Colorado????

Get over it and play better and the crowd won't matter.

Considering your alternative was playing in 150 mph winds.....I think you should be thankful. Who the hell is running the Astros Derek Bell?

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Originally posted 07:55 AM ET  09.15 by SlinkyRedfoot

Who are the Astors?

I think the NY Astor Hotel must have a team now?

The Houston Astors sounded better than the Houston Guggenheims, but both of their carcasses were on Titanic.

Good Ol Bud Selig. Anything to put money in the pockets of the Brewers ownership.

Bud has screwed up ever thing else about baseball. Why not this? The game could have been played in a number of other stadiums. The Cubs have more fans in the stands when they play against the Brewers........

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Originally posted 07:55 AM ET  09.15 by SlinkyRedfoot

Who are the Astors?

A rich family. You should look up Astor's Beechwood Mansion in Rhode Island.

What's wrong with Wrigley North?

It's obvious the bigger NL team in the playoffs is the Cubs. They will bring more viewers on TV then the Astros = more money. They have a broad fan base so Selig wanted to insure a playoff berth. The Cubs bascially had a spot locked up but since Selig doesn't know baseball he was unaware of this.

Gotcha FromTheRough.......just maybe you've have justified Selig's position.

Woulda went to Houston it still would have been more Cub fans then Astros anyways..so it dont matter.


Cry cry cry, they lost, on to the next game.

I agree that it really put the Atsros at a disadvantage, but think the reason was to sell as many tickets as possible. They knew that they could sell over 20,000 tickets for this game to Cub fans on a whim if it was at Miller Park. I don't think television ratings came into play, as the only TV broadcast of the game that I know of was WGN in Chicago. Even in central IL, it wasn't on WGN, so I don't think it was nation wide. Simply put, it did indeed come down to $$$$$$$$.

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Originally posted 08:36 AM ET  09.15 by THE TRUTH

I think the NY Astor Hotel must have a team now?

Do not be jealous because we are surging and on our way to a wildcard. Really jealousy is a weak emotion

Yes, yes, who are the Astors? Is that Sean Astor the actor? I didn't know Rudy was playing in Milwaukee???? Who knew?

The Rangers were on the west coast all weekend. Admit it. Selig wanted the money for his old club and there is much more interest in the loser Cubs to have another chance to choke in the playoffs on national TV than the Astros to make a run as a wild card.

Money, Money, Money. And the Cubs will STILL Choke.

OK, Fan Nation, it's at least five hours since the item was put up, make the spelling correction!
You should be embarist!

Raw deal for the Astros, they should have had a more "neutral" site than just a few miles away from Chicago.

But, that's no excuse for not getting even 1 base hit last night. I blame Cecil Cooper somewhat, you have to keep the players focused and ready to play, no matter what. Z looked awesome though, so it might not have mattered.

Big deal. It as a neutral site in that neither team was more familiar with it & how the park plays. Both the Cubs and Astros play an equal number of games at Miller Park. And they limited the tickets sold to about 50% of capacity, keeping the noise levels down. There were only 23K fans there.

Plus baseball doesn't have the same home field advantage as many other sports. Once you reduce those factors, as noted above, the advantage for the Cubs is quite small. The Astros are 37-38 in real road games, so that shows they can win 50% of the time.

The Astros need to focus on winning a game that is quite winnable, rather than whining about having a slight disadvantage.

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