Bottom Five Houston Sports Moments in 2013
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4. The Houston Astros Season
Between 2003 and 2007, I lived in San Diego and had a brief stint Michigan. I didn’t get to experience the hometown craze of the Astros’ peaking. When I came back to Houston, the franchise was springing leaks. It was a slow sinking ship.
2013 showed it’s ugly face and the Astros hit rock bottom. Losing 111 games, the worst ever as a franchise.
The Astros fan base is nearly detached. The players on the team are completely foreign to the fans, without a single a household name in the bunch. It reminds me of the movie Major League but without the happy ending.
When the Astros are talked about on Houston Sports Radio, it’s like they’re talking about a sick kid that’s about to die at any moment. The hosts poke around the subject for a moment or two, then move on to something that doesn’t make people sick to their stomach.
Even if you wanted to watch an Astros game on TV, it’s not even possible, because of Comcast. And let’s be real, who has Comcast? I once dated a girl that had Comcast, and it was like “Bizarro World Cable TV”. Nothing about it made sense.
How about that silly campaign they were running?
“Tell your cable service provider you want CSN Houston!”
There’s two things that grind my gears about their efforts. First, unless someone is dying to watch a horrible Astros’ team, there is no way in hell that they’re going to make that phone call.
It was the equivalent of running a commercial about scheduling a dentist appt. No 18-54 year old man is going to do it. That’s why they’re married, so they don’t have to do these things.
The other thing that killed me about their efforts was, how’s this channel supposed to be any different than Fox Sports Southwest?
They was never a push for the programming. So besides the Astros and Rockets, what else do you got for me CSN Houston?
How about market the hell out of some Houston sports documentaries and some proprietary content? Create a bigger buzz about the channel as a whole. A mediocre Rockets team (before Howard) and a bad Astros team isn’t going to excite the average Houston sports fan.
Throw the Astros moving to the AL, on top of their record, the players, and CSN Houston.
They’re out of a division of teams that I grew up hating. I really hate the Cardinals. Now hating them isn’t as fun.
It’s like hating the Yankees, there is no real passion about hating them. It’s like the racist version of hating a team. There’s no real reason to hate this team, you just hate them for something that doesn’t make sense.
It’s a waste.
That right there is the full Houston Astros circle jerk of 2013.
No tradition, no superstars, no winning, no audience.
Do the Astros exist?
This makes me sad. I miss Houston Baseball.