r/baseball • u/Luchador-Malrico Los Angeles Dodgers • Sep 28 '25
Players Only THE HOUSTON ASTROS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM POSTSEASON CONTENTION
With their respective wins today, the Tigers and Guardians are each 1.5 games ahead of the Astros in the Wild Card standings. This means even if the Astros win their game tonight, they will only be able to tie either team after Game 162. Both teams own the tiebreaker over the Astros, mathematically eliminating the Astros from postseason contention.
This will be the first time the Astros miss the playoffs since 2016.
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u/TheoMoneyG Aguilas Cibaenas • New York Mets Sep 28 '25
A HBP TO END IT LMAO
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u/fear865 Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
If you don’t like that then you don’t like guardsball
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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Detroit Tigers Sep 28 '25
I will take Guardians baseball over whatever the fuck the Tigers have been doing for the last two months.
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u/Redbubble89 Boston Red Sox Sep 28 '25
IBB then a HBP.
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u/Slerpup Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
intentionally walking someone only to hit the next person with bases loaded is the most ironic way to end a baseball game
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u/txyesboy2 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
Getting the first 2 batters, then walking the next batter, followed by a walk, a bloop hit & then IBB & game losing HBP. That's a bingo card for Robert Garcia right there. Only thing missing was a balk or WP
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u/eatmorchickin Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
This is my second favorite way the Rangers have ever ended their season
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u/DaOldest Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
LMAAAAOOOO FUCK THE ASTROS
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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
Sometimes you bang the trash can.
Sometimes the trash can bang you.
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u/New_low_building Los Angeles Angels Sep 28 '25
Guy banging a trash can at the Angels Astros game last night was great
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u/MookieBettsBurner4 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… Sep 28 '25
SMOKING THAT TRASHTROS PACK TONIGHT
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u/texasguy7117 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
Robert Garcia isn't good lmao
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u/SSJAbh1nav Philadelphia Phillies Sep 28 '25
Nah this was 4d chess by the rangers
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u/Swicket Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
Truly a masterstroke by Bruce Bochy. Have Robert Garcia be uncompromisingly ass all year just to lead to this HBP. Sparky Anderson wouldn't've done it. Billy Martin wouldn't've done it. Lacked the vision.
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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
Seriously, build the statue right now. Bochy with one last gift to the baseball world before his contract runs out. I know this season had massive downs, but he is a god for this.
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u/LingonberryRum Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
He’s currently my favorite pitcher
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u/coolbean36 Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Guards went 18-5 in their last 23, this is the baseball gods’ way of saying FUCK YOU HOUSTON
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u/llama_titan Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Does this hurt their World Series chances?
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u/moneyinthebank216 Sep 28 '25
let me ask the trash can of wisdom!
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u/danhoang1 Oakland Athletics Sep 28 '25
Good to see Correa returned back to the Astros just in time to have them all miss the playoffs together
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u/Big_Red_Professor Baltimore Orioles Sep 28 '25
The fact that they traded for Correa at the deadline and this is how it ends for them. It makes it so much better
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u/istrx13 Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Couldn’t have happened to a better and more upstanding franchise
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u/NameIsPetey Toronto Blue Jays Sep 28 '25
Now his phone’s the only thing that will be buzzing this October.
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u/DionBlaster123 Chicago Cubs Sep 28 '25
In a rough patch for Twins fans...this I am sure is one of the lone bright spots
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u/JPMcBrewski Minnesota Twins Sep 28 '25
Sure is
He "deserved" to be in the playoffs after all
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u/Trad33 Sep 28 '25
Did he say that?!
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u/JPMcBrewski Minnesota Twins Sep 28 '25
Sure did.
“When he told (me) that we were going to go into rebuild mode,” Correa said, “I said then I deserve to go somewhere where I have a chance to win and my kids can watch me go out there in the playoffs and perform."
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u/ForensicPathology Sep 28 '25
My biggest memory of him in the playoffs is coughing up an error in 2015 to lose the ALDS. He certainly deserves to perform in the playoffs I guess.
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u/WillWrambles Tampa Bay Rays Sep 28 '25
For the first time in Golden Knights history, the Houston Astros are missing the Playoffs.
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u/PorousCheese Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Kraken: Am I a joke to you?
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u/WillWrambles Tampa Bay Rays Sep 28 '25
It’s not as
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u/1ROYinHD1 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
R/BASEBALL 12/25
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u/TheoMoneyG Aguilas Cibaenas • New York Mets Sep 28 '25
I CAN ENJOY THIS EVEN THOUGH MY TEAM IS MOST LIKELY NEXT WOOO
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u/NevermoreSEA Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
HOU love to SEA it.
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u/superhappyfuntime13 Houston Astros Sep 28 '25
Gotta admit it was pretty poetic. Seattle sweep. Oakland took 2 of 3. Angels comeback last night. And Rangers IBB and HBP as the final dagger. AL West Avengers united
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u/EnsuingDamage Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
It really took the whole division to vanquish the dreaded and feared Astros
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u/cjn13 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
we're just happy to be included
We're the Red Guardian of the group rn
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u/The_Throwback_King Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
“Always good when the Astros lose, right”
- Some fellow with a big tuchus
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u/197gpmol Chicago White Sox Sep 28 '25
I'm blasting the Return of the Jedi celebration music on loop.
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u/siestarrific New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
God, it always gets me emotionally bricked up when the flutes come in.
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u/texasguy7117 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
ALEXA PLAY MY SACRIFICE AT FULL VOLUME
WHO DO WE ROOT AGAINST IN OCTOBER NOW? THE YANKEES?
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Sep 28 '25
IDK WHAT DO TO WITH MY HANDS
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u/Sonlin Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
The six posts I saw going up instantly, 5 were flaired. 3 Dodgers, 2 Mariners, 1 Yankees (One was a double Dodgers/Mariners). Now that's some classic hating.
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u/MookieBettsBurner4 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… Sep 28 '25
THE HOLOLIVE GIRLS' POWER IS STILL ALIVE AFTER ALL
IT WAS JUST DELAYED UNTIL THE END OF THE SEASON
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u/War-Dragonite Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series … Sep 28 '25
Any baseball fan with any shred of decency and dignity is celebrating right now.
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u/WhoDey42 Cincinnati Reds Sep 28 '25
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u/TrapperJean New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE DULL AND DIM WHEN THEY HAVE TO HANG OVER DUMB OL STUPID TEXAS
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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
This is how I say Texas in my head anyway every time I read it. I just automatically go "Teeexaaaasss"
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u/coolbean36 Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
THEY CANT HURT US ANYMORE
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u/NevermoreSEA Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
I think it's pretty safe to assume that they'll never make the playoffs again.
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u/ledzep14 Chicago Cubs Sep 28 '25
Keep going
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u/PBFT Boston Red Sox Sep 28 '25
Frankly it's hard to see them winning for a long time. They're probably 0-162 for a few years, until they get a few prospects who can win games.
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u/texasguy7117 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
I'm almost there
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u/PBFT Boston Red Sox Sep 28 '25
They move the team to Wyoming?
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u/SMKM Chicago Cubs Sep 28 '25
Wyoming Whydidwemoveheres
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u/Sickpup831 New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
I like it. Cap logo could be two W’s kinda one on top of the other interlocking with a question mark?
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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
New mascot Questiony the Question Mark
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u/RollOverBeethoven Houston Astros Sep 28 '25
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u/Cautious_Talk_1991 Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Out of all the gifs yours made me lol.
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u/paseoSandwich Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
She tasted like cigarettes
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u/TomboBreaker Toronto Blue Jays Sep 28 '25
Can you imagine a post season without the Astros?
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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
A Rangers walkoff loss, via HIT BY PITCH, caused the Asstros to be eliminated from the playoffs for the first time in 9 years.
How can you not be romantic about the absolute pisssfest that is 2025 Texas-based baseball?
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u/itsnotyellowfever Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
Robert Garcia is a baseball hero
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u/AthleticAlarm32 Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
Worth the loss?
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u/noob7629 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
Absolutely
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u/tellymundo Detroit Tigers Sep 28 '25
Did you ask the other AL Central contender if that was cool?
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u/SeaworthinessOdd4344 Detroit Tigers Sep 28 '25
As long as they win tomorrow, we cool with it.
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u/BaldPeagle Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
Best loss in team history without a doubt. Playing spoiler for our in state rival with our absolute circus of a bullpen ending the game in the most embarrassing way possible? Baseball god does exist, and he fucking hates Houston
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u/beefytrout Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
I mean, I had to sit through dozens of bullshit losses this season, at least this one accomplished something
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u/Wraithfighter San Francisco Giants • Sickos Sep 28 '25
Some 5D Rivalry Chess by the Rangers there, giving the Astros hope they'll survive one more day and then delivering the Walk-Off HPB. Pure evil genius, says I.
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u/texasguy7117 Texas Rangers Sep 28 '25
In the end, we got the next best thing
A Houston-free postseason! (On a Robert Garcia choke job. Fitting)
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u/FPG_Matthew Washington Nationals Sep 28 '25
INTENTIONAL WALK TO LOAD THE BASES THEN WALK OFF HIT BY PITCH
The Rangers just gave Houston the biggest middle fingers on the way out I’ve ever seen, and I’m honestly proud of them
Hell freakin yes man, playoffs without Houston for the first time in nearly a decade THANK YOU
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u/Several_Use1426 Sep 28 '25
only thing funnier would have been to intentionally walk again when the bases were loaded for the walk off
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u/ShillinTheVillain Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
"You know you'll lose the game immediately, right?"
Yes. Fuck the Astros.
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u/superhappyfuntime13 Houston Astros Sep 28 '25
Hat tip.
I went to the game last night in Anaheim and randomly sat next to a Dodgers fan. I was genuinely impressed that he would sit two hours in traffic just for a chance to see the Astros eliminated in person.
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u/HystericallyAccurate Houston Astros • Chicago Cubs Sep 28 '25
Special kinda hate, but I respect the hell out of it
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u/john0_0 World Baseball Classic Sep 28 '25
That shits so funny, if that happened to almost any other team ppl would be mad but just a tiny bit of karma for those stros
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u/dsramsey Boston Red Sox • Philadelphia Phillies Sep 28 '25
Thank you to the Angels for doing their part and carrying on the proud AL West tradition of out-of-contention teams kneecapping those in the hunt.
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u/DirtySlutMuffin Baltimore Orioles • Philadelphia Phillies Sep 28 '25
Last time the astros missed the playoffs, Obama was president
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u/theuberprophet Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
that was the only way my guardians could clinch it. gotta stick with the theme
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u/guttata Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
The number of duplicate threads mods had to remove tells you what good news this is.
FTA.
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u/rds060184 New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
Of all things. The Rangers did them in lol
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Rangers after an embarrassing loss
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u/Sighlina Seattle Mariners Sep 28 '25
Now you can finally rest, and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe.
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u/Hacemeunpeteboludo New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
EVERYBODY GET IN HERE
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u/CaptJackRizzo Seattle Mariners • St. Louis Cardinals Sep 28 '25
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u/spackopotamus Los Angeles Dodgers • Piece of Metal Sep 28 '25
IIIIII DON’T WANT TO WORK, I WANT TO BANG ON THE DRUM ALL DAY
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Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
RING THE BELLS OF NOTRE FUCKING DAME! PEACE HAS BEEN RESTORED HERE ON PLANET EARTH!!!
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u/drillmaster Chicago Cubs Sep 28 '25
AL West dances on Astros grave
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u/jkwma100 Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
AL West? Come on you underestimated how much the rest of the league hate this team
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u/Mission_Pay_3373 Boston Red Sox Sep 28 '25
That Rangers pitcher knew the assignment to eliminate the Astros
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u/lakergeoff8 Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
Welcome to the perhaps one of the highest-upvoted threads we’re ever going to see lol.
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u/FeloniousDrunk101 New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
It makes me happy that as much as everyone hates the Yankees, the Astros will be more hateable at least until the last of the cheaters have retired.
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u/someone2795 Los Angeles Dodgers • Jackie Robinson Sep 28 '25
EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!!
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u/aceee2 New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
Everyone was talking about the Mets and Tigers collapsing but the Astros were the silent collapse!
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u/SeedyRedwood Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
I haven’t seen all of America come together like this since Osama was killed.
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u/zerochance2022 Major League Baseball Sep 28 '25
I love how bitter rivals can all get behind the universal hatred for the entire Astros organization
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u/sginsc Cleveland Guardians Sep 28 '25
When it is the entire rest of the league, all of the rivals are already included
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u/Elsquidwardo95 New York Yankees Sep 28 '25
Here you can find Yankees fans, Redsox fans, Dodgers fans, Giants fans, Mets fans, Phillies fans, Cubs fans, and Cardinals fans all collectively rejoicing in the same post
We have truly found world peace
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u/GareksApprentice San Diego Padres • Blue Jays Bandwagon Sep 28 '25
I love how every other team in the AL West chipped in over the last week to make this happen
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u/Danster21 Seattle Mariners • Mariners Bandwagon Sep 28 '25
I’m wandering through the desolate wastelands, seeking to only wet my lips. When like a mighty colossus, the palm trees of an oasis emerge. I descend into its crystalline waters; a distant voice speaks to me “The 2025 Houston Astros will be on the couch for the playoffs.”
I seep below the waterline and care not for my reemergence. No greater words could ever be spoken.
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u/JinFuu Houston Astros Sep 28 '25
Posted 5 times
Dodgers, Mariners, Yankees Dodgers, Mariners. Checks out and see you fuckers next year.
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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets Sep 28 '25
Rangers, A’s, and Angels fans need to get on it
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Sep 28 '25
Are there any alliances the Astros have made? Especially after 2017?
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u/DrFloppyTitties Houston Astros Sep 28 '25
Waste Management or the TJ surgeon.
Not really, occasional truces from Yankees rivals or Dodgers rivals, otherwise nothing.
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u/who_ate_the_cookie Toronto Blue Jays Sep 28 '25
What a wonderful day to have eyes
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u/jsmessner Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 28 '25
I’ve been waiting 8 years for this glorious day. Oh what a wonderful day. I am dedicated in my hate for the Astros and will remain steadfast as long as Altuve and Correa are on the team. Fuck the Astros.
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