October 19, 2004

NLCS Game 3 pics

Posted by pete at October 19, 2004 12:13 PM

As promised, I've uploaded some pictures I took with my pathetic 3.2 megapixel digital camera at Minute Maid Park for Game 3 of the NLCS between the Astros and the Cardinals. Click a thumbnail for a larger image.

First, the cautious approach to stately Minute Maid Park:

Click the link below for the rest:

Entering enemy territory:


The unbridled frenzy of activity that is batting practice:


Didn't waste any time getting that banner up there, did they? And what the hell is a "wild card champion?"


How could they let us see the Big Board?


One of the strangest geological anomalies in all of baseball...Tal's Hill in center field:


The Rocket warms up, may he rot in hell:


Keeping a careful eye out for William Ligue and son:


Eternal pixie Mary Lou Retton was one of the first pitch throwers (along with that Jeremy Wariner goofball from Baylor):


A sellout crowd laments the fact they didn't buy tickets for Game 4, when Robert Earl Keen was singing the national anthem and not Andy Pettite's wife:


"Please don't put me in...please don't put me in..."

A fellow interloper:


Javier Bracamonte selfishly keeps Edmonds' home run ball for himself:


This too shall pass:

From that view over the bullpen, you could easily take out Qualls before he kills again.

Also, isn't it Townes Hill?

--Posted by Laurence Simon on October 19, 2004 1:37 PM

Nope, as this whining from the Giants organization confirms:

Manager Felipe Alou said some of his players complained about Tal's Hill, named for Astros President Tal Smith, who hatched the idea. When head trainer Stan Conte looks at Tal's Hill, he doesn't see a quirky little ballpark feature, but a gold mine for surgeons.

"I don't understand why Major League Baseball allows hazards on the field like that," Conte fumed. "Next, I think Major League Baseball should put landmines in the outfield so we can all watch the outfielders explode. If you happen to go up the hill and nobody blows out his knee, then you get to hit the flagpole with your head."

--Posted by Pete on October 19, 2004 1:50 PM

"Landmines in the outfield." The bastard stole that one from George Carlin; why doesn't he give proper credit?

Great pics. Thanks for sharing them.

--Posted by Len Cleavelin on October 20, 2004 8:12 AM



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