Where Houston and Austin meet
Posted in Gripes and Groans on May 3rd, 2012
Brad Mills continues to make little tweaks to the Astros lineup and I feel like he’s getting closer and closer to it, but there are probably some changes he’ll never make and that’s a shame. The Astros have some good parts and could actually construct a presentable lineup if done correctly. It doesn’t have to [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans, Prospects Watch on Apr 26th, 2012
Jose Altuve burst onto the major league scene last year, on fire from the beginning, putting up a .305 batting average in July and August. His free swinging made him fun to watch and although he put up a good batting average and struck out about as frequently as I do, he also walked about [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 26th, 2012
Houston had another explosive getaway game yesterday, driving in seven runs on 14 hits for their lone series victory and just their fourth win in the last 15 games. They’ve had a rough go lately, especially with the great pitching they faced against the Dodgers and Nationals. But the wins are bound to start coming [...]
Posted in Game recaps, Gripes and Groans on Apr 12th, 2012
After winning the first game of the series against the Braves and looking pretty good doing it, the Astros looked very much like a 100-loss team, making mistake after mistake and missing opportunity after opportunity in dropping the last two games of the series in a very ugly way. Some things they had been doing [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 10th, 2012
The Astros won again last night to move to two games over .500 for the first time since July 17, 2009. In the interest of all fairness and honesty, I have to point out that a large part of the reason the Astros have won three of their first four games is because of defensive [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 9th, 2012
The Astros haven’t won an opening series since when!? At the risk of diminishing the excitement over the Astros having a winning record for the first time in what feels like a decade, I was stunned to go back and realize this weekend’s series victory is the first season-opening series victory the Astros have had [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 6th, 2012
What would a 10 best list be without a corresponding “worst” list? To clarify in advance, I ignored the laughably horrific movies that are barely even baseball films (ie – Ed and The Slugger’s Wife) and disastrous sequels (ie – Bad News Bears Go To Japan and Major League 3: Back to the Minors). We don’t want to [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 6th, 2012
Prompted by an Alyson Footer Tweet, I wanted to share my favorite opening day moment. It ended up being a dreadful season, but we didn’t know it at the time. It was 2000, the Astros were coming off three consecutive division titles, and we had high hopes for them as they entered their first season [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Apr 6th, 2012
I’ve been enjoying baseball movies while writing blog posts and waiting for the Astros season to start, so I wanted to take a moment and give my list of top 10 baseball movies of all time. There’s no shortage of these lists, but I just take that to mean there’s no end to the fun [...]
Posted in Gripes and Groans on Dec 31st, 2011
I wanted to take a moment to catch up on some Astros winter news on which I’ve yet to opine, as well as reflect on 2011 and look forward to the Astros’ last season in the NL in 2012. With their many moves this fall, the Astros would have been one of the league’s top [...]
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