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ouch...
sorry about that one, butler...but it happens...yes, they absolutely should have known better than to pitch to pujols...but these things happen...we'll play again on wednesday...and they'll win in st. louis instead of in houston...
but that's baseball...sometimes you win...sometimes you lose...and sometimes it rains...
peace to you, butler...
Ya know STB I am curious about that fat lady as well. Being a bigger person myself (trying to get smaller) should it be assumed that I can sing better because of my size cause let me tell ya I cannot carry a tune to save my butt!!! Just trying to brighten your mood - tomorrow is another day and hopefully Oswalt will get the job done. Keep your fingers crossed. .... toes and whatever else you can cross as well - GO STROS!!!
I don't know anything about the players, but as I was watching two outrs with two strikes I thought, we're actually going to win!
You're right, down but not out.
From InfoPlease:
Often mistakenly attributed to N.Y. Yankees Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, this popular quote is not usually written or quoted in its entirety. The actual quote was the following:
"The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings."
This modern-day proverb is credited to San Antonio sports writer/broadcaster Dan Cook. Cook wrote the phrase in an article in 1976 and then used it again on TV in 1978. Cook, who used the quip during an NBA playoff game, was trying to give San Antonio Spurs fans hope after their team lost a game against the Washington Bullets and was on the brink of elimination.
But historians argue that the phrase may be older than that. It may have originated from an old Southern proverb, "Church ain't over until the fat lady sings."
It'd have to derive from baseball--and a Texan team no less!
They'll get it right this time. Now they're scared. Scared makes a person concentrate.
Cheering from the north!
(Um, so maybe NBA is basketball, huh?
Oh yeah, I'm a real sports fan! hahaha!!)
That was painful, and i can sympathize for you. 14 years for the braves, 1 world series. the astros have to win tomorrow or else the series is as good as over for them. ppl on espn were saying all the pressure is still on st louis, but i dont think so. it has to be the astros, one out to go to the world series and now theyre afraid theyre gonna be this years version of the yankees. well either way goodluck i want the astros to win it all just so beltran feels like a bitch for leaving.
my hurt sunk when i saw the sports report last evening! but i am glad there's another shot-at-glory. xoxox
Hey, nailbiters like this are what the playoffs are about. Welcome to the big leagues 
As for the opera and the fat lady...the lead soprano in any opera company has a tendency to be a little rotund. It's a question of physical dynamics required to produce those high notes I suppose.
Think Bugs Bunny's famous opera cartoon...the blond with the braids and the helmet with the horns on and you've got the image that most people are thinking of.
I'll be watching tonight on commercial breaks in Lost.
i don't think it's necessarily a fat thing. i'm pretty thin, and i can assure you, when i sing, it's pretty much over. it's that bad.
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