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Neither a Buyer Nor a Also-Ran Be…

off-day-large There are no great teams in Major League Baseball. Sure, the Dodgers and Red Sox appear to be running away with the the National League West and the American League East, respectively. And certainly, there are T-ball teams with a better chance of making the playoffs than the Washington Nationals. But other than the six division leaders, there are 23 additional teams within 10 games of being in the playoffs. So that’s 29 out of 30 teams with a shot at the playoffs. Twenty-three of those teams are at worst 5 games below .500. Everyone is “in”, at least on June 23rd. In theory, it should make for great baseball, with every team feeling like they are in it each and every game. So the season should be chock full of moments like this past weekend when eleven games were won in the last at-bat.

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May 2009 Spike and Star Awards

Posted under Featured, Monthly Awards

You’ve been waiting patiently for all of a couple of days for the announcement, so I won’t keep it from you much longer. One would think with a somewhat uninspired performance from the team on the whole, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone worthy of award recognition. Well, just the opposite, many players distinguished [...]

Astros Beat Padres

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Astros 7, Padres 1
W: Wandy Rodriguez, L: Kevin Correia
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Headhunter: VIII - Pony Tail

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‘Round the Bases with Jeff Lasky: The Voice of The JetHawks

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Last year, The Bus Ride started a series of interviews with the guys who bring many of us the games from the minor league parks. The voices we hear on the radio or for many of us these days, the voice out of the computer speakers. We want to help you get a feel for [...]

Around the Minors

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The Astros return to the Gulf Coast League (“GCL”) for the first time since 1998, and Ken Jackson at Around Osceola has an informative article discussing the return of minor league baseball to Osceola County Stadium.

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart: Astros @ Giants Preview

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I’m going to have to look into finding a supplier of handshake drugs if I’m going to keep watching this team. For ever dominant (seriously) performance by Brian Moehler or Russ Ortiz, there are missed cutoff men, botched rundowns, lollygagging outfielders, and bullpen implosions.

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