Why the Astros Can't Draw Crowds

[Dave Saltzer]

With fans like this . . . 

 

http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2013/09/27/woman-snatches-foul-ball-from-little-girl/

 

Ouch!

[YouthofToday]

A Dbacks game from 2011...

[RallyMo]

...or maybe it's because they stink.

[Brandon]

How does one come across a kearth101 baseball link?

[RallyMo]

How does one come across a kearth101 baseball link?

 

What kind of baseball fan are you?

 

Have you never heard of kWAR? It measures the value that any current or former player would add to the group by being inserted in the place of Levi Stubbs as lead singer of The Four Tops.

[Brandon]

I was thinking all time homerun leaders with The Beach Boys as walk up music.

[SoWhat]

Wait, how old is this? I'm pretty sure that's Mark Grace voice, who was fired last year.

[katie]

Wait, how old is this? I'm pretty sure that's Mark Grace voice, who was fired last year.

It was uploaded to Youtube August of last year

[m0nkey]

Someone posted this in the hangout forum the other day

[HaloFan85]

I also didn't realize it was an older video when I posted it in the hangout forum.  Someone linked it on facebook and the website showing the video also had just posted it as if it was recent.  Then I seen the number of views it had on youtube and realized it had happened a while ago.

 

Never seen it in the news or on any of the sports networks, so I figured it just happened too.

[katie]

How could it have gone viral last year? No one watches Astros games

[Punk]

The Houston Astros pulled in a record-low television audience for their series opener against the Angels on Saturday, grabbing a Nielsen rating that suggests only a thousand people tuned in to the game, reports Dave Barron of the Houston Chronicle.

 

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2013/9/17/4740812/astros-tv-record-houston-csn-angels

[Albacore]

wow...WTF?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

How could it have gone viral last year? No one watches Astros games

 

It's a figure of speech. Watching the Astros is like having a viral infection.

[disarcina]

that clip was from a D-backs game...........geez. that lady is terrible.

 

This sort of reminds me of an incident sort of opposite of that shown, about a year ago I caught a foul ball at the Big-A (September game, too, lots of empty seats) and then handed it to the young kid sitting with his parents a few rows in front of us.........kid enjoyed the baseball so that's great......but did the kid or his parents say thank you or even acknowledge that I have their kid a ball?  Not then, not when they got up (before the game was over) and left..........incredible. No big deal.......but people can be incredibly self absorbed......oh well.  It was a nice night at the ballpark.

 

as for the Astros, perhaps its the 106 or so losses that has the fans staying away and now?

 

Heck, it's September.....given the choice between watching Texas football practice on TV and a live ballgame, Texans would chose Football every time.

[disarcina]

as for any one of us dissing the Astros.........well, what was our Halos record against them this year?  7-11 or 8-10 something like that.

 

not exactly Oakland's 17-2.

[disarcina]

Ratings listed for Houston/ Angels game on a Saturday in Texas...........duh?

 

I'll bet the local junior college local football broadcast on cable had more viewers.............

[Carlos]

And you wonder why the Oilers left HOU

[ten ocho recon scout]

How does one come across a kearth101 baseball link?

shouldn't the links all be from the 50's?