Hi! It’s the weekend!

Folks… the Astros’ juggernaut rampage through Major League Baseball is officially over. Every good thing has to come to an end sometime. Hopefully we can bounce back, but no matter where this team ends up next season, we were lucky enough to experience an historic run: Our beloved Houston Astros made it to the ALCS for seven years in a row, played in four World Series, and won two of them. That’s fucking amazing. Many of you are either my age or older, and most of us remained die-hard fans over decades of heartbreak and futility from our hometown boys. We stuck around with a perpetually .500 team throughout the ’80s. We stuck around through years of losing to the Braves in the playoffs during the ’90s. We stuck around during the mediocre years after the 2005 World Series as we said goodbye to aging stars like Bagwell, Biggio, and Berkman. We stuck around through those miserable 100+ loss seasons as we slowly rebuilt our farm system. And finally, we got to live through seven years of dominance, in which a championship was not just in reach every year, but expected. It’s been one hell of a run, and we fans should be grateful as hell.