I don't get people like you, who get upset over sports or differences in sports opinions. They're not "your" team, they're just a group of people who decided they really like running around and hitting balls with sticks and happen to frequently do so in one particular area. Why take it all so personally when you have nothing to do with them and their activities? What, are you paying them?

Do the Astros actually stink that hard? Are they the 'Venice of America' level of open sewer?

Venice is considered an open sewer? It's typically romanticized over here.

They have been pretty good the last two years; REALLY GOOD last year, and I was hoping to talk to the OP about that but he is obviously wound WAY TOO TIGHT. :P

I watch and talk sports for fun. When I criticize someone's team I'm only "busting their balls" and I encourage them to do the same back to me, tongue always firmly in cheek of course. This guy wants no part of that, so I'm guessing I should end this particular discussion.

Canals = sewage system. That's basically it.

So in TR 2 there is no way Lara should be able to swim around in them?

Oh, you can swim, for sure. You're a bit more buoyant, even.

I thought that was New York.

Cleveland was the city who's river actually burst into flames, though that was 40 years ago.