Astros lost and will not be in the World Series since possibly 2016, thanks to Rafael Cruz, who is a certified jinx. Fans beg him not to go, but he insisted. https://t.co/C1EV3sFnES
— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) October 24, 2023
We deserve some lighter fare, right about now…
All I ask for is for Ted Cruz, the King of Jinxers, to not attend Game 7 of the #ALCS, so the Astros can have a good chance at victory. https://t.co/MPnEHewog7
— Mark R. Yzaguirre (@markyzaguirre) October 23, 2023
The only Astros fans who don’t want Ted Cruz to stay home are his wife and daughters.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 24, 2023
The Texas Rangers are leading 8-2 in the fourth inning. Ted Cruz screwed the Astros again 😂 pic.twitter.com/fM4H9QU90G
— WTFUSA😒 (@dudeonthebay) October 24, 2023
Rolling Stone, before the game:
The Houston Astros are on the brink of returning to the World Series for the fifth time in the past seven years — which means they’ve had a pretty good postseason. Ted Cruz wouldn’t know it, though, at least not based on what he’s seen in person. The Astros haven’t fared well in games the Texas senator has attended, the latest of which was their Game 6 loss to the Texas Rangers on Sunday night, forcing a seventh and deciding game on Monday….
Regardless, there are currently countless posts from Astros fans on X (formerly Twitter) who would prefer Cruz stay away from the ballpark.
“All I ask for is for Ted Cruz, the King of Jinxers, to not attend Game 7 of the #ALCS, so the Astros can have a good chance at victory,” wrote lawyer Mark Yzaguirre.
“I appreciate that Ted Cruz, as a dad, loves taking his kids to the @astros games,” added another fan. “But for the love of all things Houston, let Heidi take them! Send them with friends! It’s game 7 man. We can’t risk this. The whole city is asking you.”
Meanwhile, Rangers fans are begging him to attend. “As an honest Astros fan I speak for when I say Ted Cruz is a great man and great senator and should attend our game tomorrow night, he’s our good luck charm,” wrote one user whose bio is filled with love for Dallas-area sports teams, including the Rangers….
The 2023 MLB postseason isn’t the first time Houston sports fans have been pissed at Cruz for rooting on their teams. The senator was also blamed for the Rockets’ Game 7 loss to the Golden State Warriors in 2018. Cruz was courtside for the contest, during which the Rockets missed a record 27 straight three-point attempts.
The Astros may not be doing well with Cruz in attendance this postseason, but he did watch them sweep the New York Yankees in New York last year. He was booed mercilessly by Yankees fans at the game. “You fucking loser!” one yelled. “You racist piece of shit!” another added.
This game is such a disaster for the Astros that Ted Cruz just left to go to Cancun
— Tom (@TQSherwood) October 24, 2023
Astros fans begged Ted Cruz not to curse the team by going to the game. He went anyway. A brief update … https://t.co/Y4dx8QU5K7
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 24, 2023
The Astros went 0-4 this series with Ted Cruz in attendance. pic.twitter.com/5DAlHY3uZt
— sky (@GonsolinRBW) October 24, 2023
Well, at least the Houston Astros got to use Bryan Abreu. https://t.co/8Mm0FysRax
— Defector (@DefectorMedia) October 24, 2023
Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?…
Well, at least the Houston Astros got to use Bryan Abreu. That should keep them warm and snuggly during the long winter months while they drag the gravel and glass shards of this truncated season through the abandoned playgrounds of their minds…
the Astros losing and then Ted Cruz losing his senate seat because enough fans are convinced he cursed the team would be the funniest possible timeline https://t.co/lecpxXDsUC
— Sam Alberti (@sam_alberti) October 24, 2023
‘Democrat running to defeat Ted Cruz’:
No matter which team you support in the all-Texas ALCS, you definitely don’t want @tedcruz near your team.
But if you’re a #Rangers fan you might just want him to keep showing up to #Astros games 😂 https://t.co/BMTm3iuRGB
— Senator Roland Gutierrez (@RolandForTexas) October 17, 2023
Houston Astros fans BEGGED Ted Cruz not to show up at their critical Game 7, afraid he'd jinx them.
He showed up ANYWAY.
The Astros got blown out 11-4.Is it too much to ask for those pissed Astros fans to cast a vote for @ColinAllredTX so he wins a blowout election to replace… pic.twitter.com/ksEPRLUTIs
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!?? (@mmpadellan) October 24, 2023
piratedan
think this qualifies as good news too…..
https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281
kindness
That’s so funny. DKos just put up a surprisingly similar piece. They included a nice quote from former Senator Al Franken: As former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken once said: “You have to understand that I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
piratedan
really feel “bad” for that grinning “fan” holding the Let’s Go Brandon sign with all of those cute lil’ FJB entries all around it… guess he never got the memo that his meme was stolen and is now most of the way up his ass…. All he got to show for it was a picture with Ted Cruz….
hueyplong
This is already a satisfying thread. Mention of the Rockets-Warriors game 7 is the icing on the cake.
Yutsano
Eww. Can we not talk about Canadian born Rafael Cruz please? I feel like it will bring him here or something.
Ruckus
Ted Cruz – Astros Jinx.
That is of course not his only claim to fame, and to be truthful, he seems to be a jinx to humanity as well.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Yutsano: Just don’t say his name 3 times while staring at your reflection in the toilet.
HumboldtBlue
It was almost criminal what Adolis Garcia did to the Astros, and I am here for it all day.
Let’s go Phillies!
prostratedragon
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony@7: Heh, ’tis the season.
On the Meadows thing, is this any more than the immunity for grand jury testimony that we already knew about? He’s been trying to wink and nudge his way out of Georgia court for months now by insinuating an importance as a federal witness that no one at SC acts as if he has. And you know who else wants to get out of State court, for whom Meadows has served as a kind of entry case. The lack of new details suggests caution.
japa21
Well, the Rangers will have their hands full with the D’Backs. Not that Cruz cares.
Alison Rose
I’d love it if Jill Biden would post that photo of the the douche with the sign, with circles drawn around all the FJBs, and just say “On it”.
Pink Tie
Couldn’t believe the Astros lost like that, especially after winning all 3 away. It has to be a jinx! Anyway… I’m sad for them, especially Altuve, Bregman, Alvarez, Javier, & Jose Abreu. And Dusty of course.
That fan with the Brandon sign –? What type of asshole brings something like that to a baseball game?
Mike in NC
Cancun Ted Crud is probably on Fat Bastard’s short list to be his VP running mate.
HumboldtBlue
I was this many days old when I learned that new cadets from the premier French Military academy, St. Cyr, are sworn in at a ceremony at Les Invalides and the tom of Napoleon.
prostratedragon
No team won a home game in that series.
Delk
The “let’s go brandon” fool doesn’t own a mirror.
brendancalling
Cruz and Guy Fierri share what the Germans call “a face that needs slapping,” except in the latter’s case it’s just bad luck. Guy, by all accounts is a good human being, who uses his fame to help during disasters, and whose show “Diners and Dives” (or whatever) has actually saved some small businesses that were on the brink.
While Ted just fucking sucks.
dmsilev
How about killing two birds with one stone and nominating Ted Cruz to be Speaker?
hells littlest angel
Texans seem to believe pretty strongly in jinxes. Why am I not surprised?
HumboldtBlue
@brendancalling:
Until a few weeks ago it came out he was full on maga.
cain
@dmsilev: I think he would love that – it’s’ the closest he is ever going to get to the presidency.
Also I hope Texas vote him out for what he did to the Astros.
Of course, he would just show up as revenge for any future games.
cain
@HumboldtBlue: Sorry, but for some reason he had MAGA vibes all over him.
That’s gonna be awkward to some of the non-white people he might encounter.
HumboldtBlue
@cain:
He’s a local, and he has done a lot of good for people, and I agree, he does have maga written all over him, but I wasn’t surprised to have him confirm it.
Stacy
https://www.sacurrent.com/movies-tv/comic-tom-segura-talks-about-a-strange-vulgar-conversation-with-ted-cruz-32152159
“While Segura was taking a walk in his new neighborhood, the senator — whom the comic didn’t name at his point — opened his door and posed a beyond-awkward greeting.
‘Hey! You’re the comedian?’ the senator asked. ‘Where do you think the term ‘motherfucker’ comes from?’”
mrmoshpotato
Shithead Ted can fuck off back to Canada.
And the Trashstros can fuck off to Canada too.
Go Phillies!
Jackie
@cain:
As a Mariners fan, I approve!😁
Freemark
@HumboldtBlue: How can you care about people (not just those close to you) and vote for Trump. It’s like saying 2+2 = e^x. It makes no sense.
mrmoshpotato
Haha, the shithead started shit with Rolling Stone. What a shithead.
Yarrow
Something everyone can agree on – everyone hates Ted Cruz. From all accounts, even his wife and daughters.
dmsilev
@Yarrow: Don’t forget his dog.
HumboldtBlue
@Freemark:
I agree.
It makes no sense.
Quinerly
@cain:
I like what Jack White says at the end.
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/17/anthony-bourdain-was-right-about-guy-fieri/
Tehanu
Everything you said, and then some. You even listed the exact players (& Dusty) I’d have listed! Sigh.