Astros fans are ‘diehard’ indeed

Anxiety and villainy

Regarding “Watching the Astros in the World Series can get your heart pounding. How that can affect your health,” (Oct. 26): Calling Astros fans “diehard” is a very appropriate term. I’m an electroneurodiagnostic (EEG) technologist (brain wave testing) and I used to hate to have to be on call during major events like the World Series or the Super Bowl. Anxiety and elevated blood pressure inevitably led to an increase in the number of people in the ER with strokes. Die hard indeed. These people need to figure out a way to decrease their anxiety and their blood pressure.

Emily Murphy, Kingwood

Regarding “Editorial: Astros are baseball’s villains — but they’re our villains,” (Oct. 26): I offer an opposite view — not the conclusion, but the interpretation. Yes, the Astros have demonstrated wins beyond reproach, but we don’t want to be known as the big bad guys. The Yankees can keep the title, modified as the “not-so-big-and-bad.” We are the good guys and have earned that title. We don’t boo our players when they have a bad day. We don’t make silly excuses when we lose a game. We have faith that our players will come through for us, and they have. When I left New York City many years ago, I was sick of the dogeat-dog world that exists there to this day. I was convinced that humans can treat each other better; life is not a zero sum game, we can all prosper together if we learn to share our successes like the Astros family has demonstrated. Andy Adams, Houston