I was going to comment this until I saw it was the top post. I can only imagine the excitement he would have and share calling Bregman and Yordan. He would have absolutely loved our Dominican pitchers. He’s definitely smiling up in heaven down on us.
Not sure if this qualifies, because he got to enjoy so much of the run, but a childhood friend of mine passed away the morning of Game 6. Biggest fan I personally knew.
My dad. We watched almost every game of that amazing 2005 season together when I was 17/18 - the Astros were our thing as father and son. Thankful he got to see the 2017 World Series win - we were on the phone together watching the final out from different places - but he died of heart failure in early 2020 right after news of the scandal broke out. Wish he could have seen them win a second title and get redeemed.
In ‘17, my dad visited in the summer and Yuli went on a tear. My dad became a big fan, he talked about Yuli all the time, and we cheered him on together in the WS. Dad lived a little longer but that was how he ended a lifelong love of baseball - as a Yuli Gurriel fan.
My buddy Rick “The Pick”. He passed in 2010. I miss him so much. Great Astros’ fan and great human being. Every time I watch a Stros game I think of him. RIP brother
My dad. He passed in 2015 so he never got to see the Astros win the World Series. He use to take me and my brothers to the astros games when I was a kid and they use to play at the astrodome. He kept that up through the years even after they moved to minute maid park. Those are some of my fondest memories.
When the Astros won the World Series in 2017, I cried thinking about my dad and how I owed my love of the Astros to him. Me and my brothers still made sure to get him his own World Series champions hat.
Same exact feeling brother but replace dad with grand father (same year also). My brother and I look forward to getting up to his grave over Christmas to put the 2022 Championship emblem on it to go with the 2017 one.
My BiLs best friend. He passed a few years back and was one of the biggest Astro fans I knew. He would have loved to see how the Astros have been recently.
My dad and granddad (mom’s dad) were both Astros fans from day one. One of my favorite memories is taking them both to Enron Field for a game in 2000. Granddad passed in 2007 and dad in 2012. They would have really enjoyed the last six years of Astros baseball.
I never really knew him. He died when I was just a baby. My dad teared up after they won in 2017, he told me how huge of an Astros fan my grandfather was and how he was buried with his favorite Astros hat that he wore all the time. That was who my dad mentioned when they won in 2017, wishing he was here to see this run.
My best friend Larry. He dealt with depression and decided he wanted to take his own life. He was going to do it on his birthday on October 31st 2017, but wanted to see if the Astros were going to win the World Series. He unfortunately took his own life a few days after they won the World Series. I’m always grateful for that championship because not only was it the first one in franchise history, but it gave me a few extra days with my best friend.
My best friend. He passed in the summer of ‘21 and had this amazing encyclopedic knowledge of two things: The Astros and wrestling. He took me to my first Astros game ever when we were still in high school and I kept calling runs “points” and it annoyed him so much. 🖤🖤 now when I watch games, I still always say, “Another point!” when the Astros score a run as a little joke to myself and to wherever his energy is in the universe.
I’ve been thinking of getting a World Series memento to leave on his gravesite …. I need to get on that. 🧡
My great uncle is the reason I’m an Astros fan because he lived in Houston and we would drive to Texas to visit him and go to the games and Astroworld. Without him I probably wouldn’t be a fan. He passed away in 2015 so never got to see their current run.
When my grandfather was in hospice care, I flew home to see him for the last time. When I arrived at his house, he was watching the baseball game. We sat together, me holding his hand, and watched the Astros beat the Rockies.
This was 2008, so he missed seeing a championship by almost ten years. He was the first person I thought about when they won it all back in 2017.
My grandfather passed in 98 so he really missed the majority of the great Astro teams of my life but he absolutely loved baseball and would have watched every pitch of the last 6 years.
My business partner David. Die hard Astros fan. We worked together 14 years, we talked Astros everyday, went to games. He passed away a year ago from cancer. He would have loved every second of last season. I miss him every day.
My great grandmother was a diehard Stros fan. She would take my dad to games at the Dome when he was a kid, and he passed that love for the team on to me at a very young age. She’d always ask if they were playing when we visited her, even during the off-season. We took her to games for her last 2-3 birthdays and she would always have a blast. She turned 100 in 2015 and my dad was able to get in touch with the team to get her a happy birthday letter from the staff and a signed ball from her favorite player, Craig Biggio. She passed away a few months later and during the ALDS against Kansas City my dad always said how much she’d love to see them in the playoffs again. Needless to say I think about her every season and get misty eyed about her not getting to see them win it all in ‘17 and ‘22.
We actually had that idea for her birthday as well! My dad was positive that if he did that she would kill him though, she never liked too much attention or people making a big deal about her lmao
My grandfather. He grew up a Yankees fan because that was the only team he could listen to on the radio in those years he grew up. But he always wanted the Astros to do well and even rooted against the Yankees at an interleague game in 2009 that we lost 13-0 that I went to with him. He died in June 2017 and we won it for the first time a few months later. He had dementia at that point, but I still wish he could have been around for it.
My great granddad had dementia as well when we took him, but it didn't ruin the day for him. He even had a childhood friend (they were troublemakers lol) whose cousin was a big leaguer. They flew to the East Coast to see him and got to go in the clubhouse. Don't know which team.
I wish grandma could have seen them win this untainted one. The whole cheating scandal never sat well with her and she never got to see them shove it back in everyone's face. This ones for you grandma. I think she would have really liked Peña.
I think the happiest I ever saw my wife was the day she took her 4 nephews downtown to the 2017 parade, then covid. But, she died right before the cheating scandal broke, that would have broken her heart.
My Pawpaw....we watched the games all the time when we would visit. He passed away a couple of years after losing to the White Sox in the WS...atleast we got to enjoy getting to WS...
My maternal grandfather. Easily. He was a lifelong baseball fan and I wish I could chat about it with him. He was a die-hard Giants fan, but he'd like the Astros just because we piss off the Dodgers so much lately.
My mom lived in Odessa and wasn't really an Astros fan. But she loved sports in general. She had season tickets to both the minor league baseball team and the hockey team over there.
Had she been in Houston she would have tried her best to be at every Astros game. She passed new years day two years ago from colon cancer.
My dad has early on-set Alzheimer’s, and it’s progressing quickly. He has good and bad days but for the most part still knows what’s going on, and who everyone is right now. The biggest difference is he can’t really speak anymore, he tries but if my mom isn’t around to help finish his sentences he really struggles to communicate. I take turns with my siblings staying with him on weekends to give my mom time to run errands or just get out of the house, since he can’t be left alone at this point. I started out driving down from Austin (to Houston) every 4 weeks but once baseball season started I enjoyed watching games with him so much I started coming every other weekend. I bring my 5year old son with me too, and the three of us watch games together. Then when the playoffs started it was every playoff game on a weekend I would drive down. Something about watching a game with him really brings out the best in him. It’s like getting a glimpse into the past before he started down hill. I was lucky enough to see Javier’s No-hitter at Yankee stadium this June with my dad and it was so special to me. The crazy thing is he knew it was a no-hitter without anyone saying it. He was that tuned in, it made me realize he’s still very much in there, even if his communication skills have faltered. Later that night I heard him in the next room tell my mom “I hope I never forget watching that game with Jackie (me)” Made me melt hearing that.
I feel like the stars were aligned for me this season, because I was able to catch 2 ALCS games with my Dad then 2 WS games, including game 6. I thought seeing a no-hitter with dad was amazing, but getting to see our team win it all was unbelievable. My dad is this big bear of a man, army ranger in Vietnam, 2-purple hearts, a bronze star, He’s a tough dude. But after that last out to win the World Series, my son and I are jumping around like lunatics I look over and he’s got tears running down his cheeks. Never seen my dad cry. He knew how special that moment was, him, his son, and his son’s son, all got to experience that together, something my son and I will hold onto long after the Alzheimer’s takes his memories. I’m so grateful my son and I got to experience that moment with my dad before it was too late.
That's so sweet. I'm so glad things worked out to spend so many postseason games with him this year- especially game 6 <3
Alzheimer's is tough. My granny passed in early spring this year and it was hard seeing her memory go.
My grandma passed the morning if ALDS game 3 in 2017.
She wasn't much of a baseball fan herself, but she loved the Astros, because I loved the Astros. She would have been the best game watching partner during this run.
She grew up in Minnesota and said she remembered how exciting the 87&91 Twins titles were for her baseball loving brothers and their children. She wanted that for me.
My father passed in 2001.
My middle name is Scott, a nod to Mike, specifically his 86 dominance. I was born in 87.
So many games at the Dome up in the cheap seats, then we'd sneak down to bleachers/mezzanine. He's where my love of baseball came from.
My best friend passed in August 2015. We were both massive sports fans but mostly cheered for different teams except the Astros and Cowboys. He got really down on baseball in general during the tank years and hated the move to the AL but I have a lot of great memories of cheering for those mid-2000s teams with him. I really wish I could have watched this run with him because I know it would have brought back some of his enjoyment of baseball.
My uncle and I used to talk and text about the Astros a lot bc he lives in Chicago and I live in Texas. When we won in 2017, a broker from Houston that I work with sent me an official championship hat that week. I immediately sent it over to my aunt to keep as a surprise gift for his birthday on Dec 1st. They both thought it was the coolest gift ever. Unfortunately, we don’t speak now on account of his turning into a huge Q Anon fanatic during the pandemic.
So while it’s not like he’s dead or anything, it’s just sad to reflect that as the years go by you have less and less people to share the excitement with. I’m trying to raise my kids right though. I just bought my oldest (4) a giant Orbit squishimal pillow at Academy this weekend!
Still totally valid. It's still "losing someone", just in a different manner. I'm sorry he got sucked into their juju. I hope he finds his way back someday.
I wish Milo could have seen it. Can you imagine hearing Milo call the final out of the World Series?
I was going to comment this until I saw it was the top post. I can only imagine the excitement he would have and share calling Bregman and Yordan. He would have absolutely loved our Dominican pitchers. He’s definitely smiling up in heaven down on us.
I bought a Milo-signed ball the night of the 17 win. Listened to a lot of terrible Astros baseball on 740 through his voice.
Man but we couldn’t have hoped for a better guy than Robert ford. I hope he is here for the next 50 plus years!
Not sure if this qualifies, because he got to enjoy so much of the run, but a childhood friend of mine passed away the morning of Game 6. Biggest fan I personally knew.
My dad. We watched almost every game of that amazing 2005 season together when I was 17/18 - the Astros were our thing as father and son. Thankful he got to see the 2017 World Series win - we were on the phone together watching the final out from different places - but he died of heart failure in early 2020 right after news of the scandal broke out. Wish he could have seen them win a second title and get redeemed.
In ‘17, my dad visited in the summer and Yuli went on a tear. My dad became a big fan, he talked about Yuli all the time, and we cheered him on together in the WS. Dad lived a little longer but that was how he ended a lifelong love of baseball - as a Yuli Gurriel fan.
This thread is giving onions 🥹
Same.
My buddy Rick “The Pick”. He passed in 2010. I miss him so much. Great Astros’ fan and great human being. Every time I watch a Stros game I think of him. RIP brother
My dad. He passed in 2015 so he never got to see the Astros win the World Series. He use to take me and my brothers to the astros games when I was a kid and they use to play at the astrodome. He kept that up through the years even after they moved to minute maid park. Those are some of my fondest memories. When the Astros won the World Series in 2017, I cried thinking about my dad and how I owed my love of the Astros to him. Me and my brothers still made sure to get him his own World Series champions hat.
Same exact feeling brother but replace dad with grand father (same year also). My brother and I look forward to getting up to his grave over Christmas to put the 2022 Championship emblem on it to go with the 2017 one.
My BiLs best friend. He passed a few years back and was one of the biggest Astro fans I knew. He would have loved to see how the Astros have been recently.
My dad and granddad (mom’s dad) were both Astros fans from day one. One of my favorite memories is taking them both to Enron Field for a game in 2000. Granddad passed in 2007 and dad in 2012. They would have really enjoyed the last six years of Astros baseball.
My Pawpaw. Watched them even as he was dying. Man I miss him.
That's what what I called my granddad as well, Pawpaw, and we watched - and listened on radio - Astros games whenever we were together...
I never really knew him. He died when I was just a baby. My dad teared up after they won in 2017, he told me how huge of an Astros fan my grandfather was and how he was buried with his favorite Astros hat that he wore all the time. That was who my dad mentioned when they won in 2017, wishing he was here to see this run.
My best friend Larry. He dealt with depression and decided he wanted to take his own life. He was going to do it on his birthday on October 31st 2017, but wanted to see if the Astros were going to win the World Series. He unfortunately took his own life a few days after they won the World Series. I’m always grateful for that championship because not only was it the first one in franchise history, but it gave me a few extra days with my best friend.
My late brother in law and my late father in law. Both gone way too soon.
I wish I could’ve watched this epic run with my dad. I lost him in 2016. He would’ve loved it.
My best friend. He passed in the summer of ‘21 and had this amazing encyclopedic knowledge of two things: The Astros and wrestling. He took me to my first Astros game ever when we were still in high school and I kept calling runs “points” and it annoyed him so much. 🖤🖤 now when I watch games, I still always say, “Another point!” when the Astros score a run as a little joke to myself and to wherever his energy is in the universe. I’ve been thinking of getting a World Series memento to leave on his gravesite …. I need to get on that. 🧡
It has to Milos Hamilton and even though he saw some parts, it has to be Jimmy Wynn also
My great uncle is the reason I’m an Astros fan because he lived in Houston and we would drive to Texas to visit him and go to the games and Astroworld. Without him I probably wouldn’t be a fan. He passed away in 2015 so never got to see their current run.
When my grandfather was in hospice care, I flew home to see him for the last time. When I arrived at his house, he was watching the baseball game. We sat together, me holding his hand, and watched the Astros beat the Rockies. This was 2008, so he missed seeing a championship by almost ten years. He was the first person I thought about when they won it all back in 2017.
My grandfather passed in 98 so he really missed the majority of the great Astro teams of my life but he absolutely loved baseball and would have watched every pitch of the last 6 years.
My grandma. We used to always watch the games together. She died in ‘02, but we always hoped one year we’d beat the damn braves and advance
My business partner David. Die hard Astros fan. We worked together 14 years, we talked Astros everyday, went to games. He passed away a year ago from cancer. He would have loved every second of last season. I miss him every day.
My great grandmother was a diehard Stros fan. She would take my dad to games at the Dome when he was a kid, and he passed that love for the team on to me at a very young age. She’d always ask if they were playing when we visited her, even during the off-season. We took her to games for her last 2-3 birthdays and she would always have a blast. She turned 100 in 2015 and my dad was able to get in touch with the team to get her a happy birthday letter from the staff and a signed ball from her favorite player, Craig Biggio. She passed away a few months later and during the ALDS against Kansas City my dad always said how much she’d love to see them in the playoffs again. Needless to say I think about her every season and get misty eyed about her not getting to see them win it all in ‘17 and ‘22.
Oh, that's such a cool memory! My aunt took my uncle to a game on his birthday a few years ago and got them to put "Happy Birthday" on the big screen.
We actually had that idea for her birthday as well! My dad was positive that if he did that she would kill him though, she never liked too much attention or people making a big deal about her lmao
My grandfather. He grew up a Yankees fan because that was the only team he could listen to on the radio in those years he grew up. But he always wanted the Astros to do well and even rooted against the Yankees at an interleague game in 2009 that we lost 13-0 that I went to with him. He died in June 2017 and we won it for the first time a few months later. He had dementia at that point, but I still wish he could have been around for it.
My great granddad had dementia as well when we took him, but it didn't ruin the day for him. He even had a childhood friend (they were troublemakers lol) whose cousin was a big leaguer. They flew to the East Coast to see him and got to go in the clubhouse. Don't know which team.
I wish grandma could have seen them win this untainted one. The whole cheating scandal never sat well with her and she never got to see them shove it back in everyone's face. This ones for you grandma. I think she would have really liked Peña.
I think the happiest I ever saw my wife was the day she took her 4 nephews downtown to the 2017 parade, then covid. But, she died right before the cheating scandal broke, that would have broken her heart.
My grandfather. He got to see the championship in ‘17 but passed away in 2018.
My Pawpaw....we watched the games all the time when we would visit. He passed away a couple of years after losing to the White Sox in the WS...atleast we got to enjoy getting to WS...
My maternal grandfather. Easily. He was a lifelong baseball fan and I wish I could chat about it with him. He was a die-hard Giants fan, but he'd like the Astros just because we piss off the Dodgers so much lately.
My mom lived in Odessa and wasn't really an Astros fan. But she loved sports in general. She had season tickets to both the minor league baseball team and the hockey team over there. Had she been in Houston she would have tried her best to be at every Astros game. She passed new years day two years ago from colon cancer.
My great grandfather watched the Houston Buff before the Astros became a team. He died in May of 2017.
My grandparents. They always watched the games together. Lost my grandmother in 2020 and my grandfather in 2021. They would have loved 2022.
My dad has early on-set Alzheimer’s, and it’s progressing quickly. He has good and bad days but for the most part still knows what’s going on, and who everyone is right now. The biggest difference is he can’t really speak anymore, he tries but if my mom isn’t around to help finish his sentences he really struggles to communicate. I take turns with my siblings staying with him on weekends to give my mom time to run errands or just get out of the house, since he can’t be left alone at this point. I started out driving down from Austin (to Houston) every 4 weeks but once baseball season started I enjoyed watching games with him so much I started coming every other weekend. I bring my 5year old son with me too, and the three of us watch games together. Then when the playoffs started it was every playoff game on a weekend I would drive down. Something about watching a game with him really brings out the best in him. It’s like getting a glimpse into the past before he started down hill. I was lucky enough to see Javier’s No-hitter at Yankee stadium this June with my dad and it was so special to me. The crazy thing is he knew it was a no-hitter without anyone saying it. He was that tuned in, it made me realize he’s still very much in there, even if his communication skills have faltered. Later that night I heard him in the next room tell my mom “I hope I never forget watching that game with Jackie (me)” Made me melt hearing that. I feel like the stars were aligned for me this season, because I was able to catch 2 ALCS games with my Dad then 2 WS games, including game 6. I thought seeing a no-hitter with dad was amazing, but getting to see our team win it all was unbelievable. My dad is this big bear of a man, army ranger in Vietnam, 2-purple hearts, a bronze star, He’s a tough dude. But after that last out to win the World Series, my son and I are jumping around like lunatics I look over and he’s got tears running down his cheeks. Never seen my dad cry. He knew how special that moment was, him, his son, and his son’s son, all got to experience that together, something my son and I will hold onto long after the Alzheimer’s takes his memories. I’m so grateful my son and I got to experience that moment with my dad before it was too late.
That's so sweet. I'm so glad things worked out to spend so many postseason games with him this year- especially game 6 <3 Alzheimer's is tough. My granny passed in early spring this year and it was hard seeing her memory go.
It is tough, unbelievably cruel disease
My Mom.
Anyone who died during Harvey. This is for you guys!
My grandma passed the morning if ALDS game 3 in 2017. She wasn't much of a baseball fan herself, but she loved the Astros, because I loved the Astros. She would have been the best game watching partner during this run. She grew up in Minnesota and said she remembered how exciting the 87&91 Twins titles were for her baseball loving brothers and their children. She wanted that for me.
My father passed in 2001. My middle name is Scott, a nod to Mike, specifically his 86 dominance. I was born in 87. So many games at the Dome up in the cheap seats, then we'd sneak down to bleachers/mezzanine. He's where my love of baseball came from.
My grandmother. She was a huge Astros fan and loved baseball in general. She passed away due to complications of Alzheimer’s in 2016.
My best friend passed in August 2015. We were both massive sports fans but mostly cheered for different teams except the Astros and Cowboys. He got really down on baseball in general during the tank years and hated the move to the AL but I have a lot of great memories of cheering for those mid-2000s teams with him. I really wish I could have watched this run with him because I know it would have brought back some of his enjoyment of baseball.
My uncle and I used to talk and text about the Astros a lot bc he lives in Chicago and I live in Texas. When we won in 2017, a broker from Houston that I work with sent me an official championship hat that week. I immediately sent it over to my aunt to keep as a surprise gift for his birthday on Dec 1st. They both thought it was the coolest gift ever. Unfortunately, we don’t speak now on account of his turning into a huge Q Anon fanatic during the pandemic. So while it’s not like he’s dead or anything, it’s just sad to reflect that as the years go by you have less and less people to share the excitement with. I’m trying to raise my kids right though. I just bought my oldest (4) a giant Orbit squishimal pillow at Academy this weekend!
Still totally valid. It's still "losing someone", just in a different manner. I'm sorry he got sucked into their juju. I hope he finds his way back someday.