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Why would the Astros want to have three catchers on the roster? It seems like a horrible waste of the spot. Find the best hitter or the most versatile fielder, and put that guy on the roster.
Your last sentence is what disappoints me. We had a great catching tandem with those two. I cannot imagine Stubbs is a solution.
What really annoys you is that LSU is undefeated and ranked No. 1 in some polls, while your Longhorns are bowl eligible.
Exactly. Before Jeter, watching baseball was less fun than watching paint dry. He changed the game forever. God bless him for all he has given us.
I for one think it's swell that MLB is approaching these allegations with the seriousness they deserve in order to protect the integrity of the game, unlike two decades ago when MLB swept the steroids scandal under the rug since all the home runs helped people forget that Bud Selig presided over the first World Series cancelation in 90 years.
Compare Tom Herman's three year progression with Matt Ruhle's progression at Baylor. Also consider that Ruhle had to recruit with the label of Rape U hung on the school and also that he went 1-11 his first year.
The icing on the stupid cake was that he thinks the HOF is watered down, but voted for Omar Vizquel.
Two of the five public HOF ballots so far have dropped everyone but Jeter. The full retard is still strong with HOF voters.
Details, details. Next you’ll say Reddick is no longer with the As.
I would think Detroit would insist on prospects or younger players.
I was thinking more about what a team would have to give up to get him.
Am I reading it right that he'd be a free agent after the 2020 season?
So did Chirinos, and JV heaped praise on him.,
They won't be signing Grandal who just signed with the White Sox.
These hearings wouldn't even be happening if the Democrats didn't take the house.
Glad he threw the gauntlet down again.
Manfred speaks:
Major League Baseball's investigation into the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal remains underway but no other teams are currently under suspicion, commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters Wednesday.
"I have no reason to believe it extends beyond the Astros at this point in time," Manfred said at the owners meetings in Arlington, Texas, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Anyone seen The Mandalorian yet? The reviews are consistently good enough that I am considering buying a Disney+ subscription although I don't know if I should do that and start watching now weekly or just binge at the end of the season.
Glad I’m not watching. Sounds like the Texans were never even in this one.
That's not the article I read, but I'm happy to be completely off base here. I'm not hoping the Astros get disbanded, despite what some of you think.
This is what I mean by martyr complex. Literally none of what is being described is actually happening, despite many of you really, really wishing it would.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mlb-commissioner-on-astros-scandal-we-will-find-out-how-far-up-in-the-organization-it-went-131204081.html
"Some fans have wondered" is quite some distance from "Commissioner Manfred said."
1. That would effectively be the end of the Astros as a franchise.
One article today is quoting unidentified GMs as wanting the 2017 WS title vacated.
Brian Kenny actually his 65 games played at SS this season as his tie-breaker and declared Bregman his MVP pick minutes before Trout was announced. So at least someone was giving him credit.
Best response to this
[T-Pain voice]
All I do is win win win no matter what/
Got signals going live I can never get enough/
And every time we hear it is a fastball, Bracamonte's hands go up/
And they stay there
LSU has had two games that ended up being closer than they should have been (Auburn and Alabama). That habit might come back to bite them if they don't solve the problem.
Interesting about Reid. I wonder the inside story. Nolan Ryan is a world-class jerk who did nothing day to day but lend his name.
And it makes no sense that the Astros would know about a thyroid issue and choose not to treat it, thereby depressing White's value both to the Astros and to any potential trade partners. If getting him to slim down was as easy as giving him some pills, they would've done it a long time ago.
I see the 2020 rotation as
Verlander
Greinke
McCullers
Sanchez
Urquidy/Valdez/James/FA
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So...has anyone seen the damn show?!
Emanuel had a really good second half in RR as a starter.
The inducing soft contact, and then making all the plays look easy, was a clinic.
And at Soto. I was waiting for what I felt was the inevitable misplay.
Fucking pre-ordained.
I’m prepared. But fuck everyone who started saying the game or the series was over three innings ago.
I’m prepared. But fuck everyone who started saying the game or the series was over three innings ago.
WHY THE FUCK!? JUST FUCKING WHY?!
Probably see more of the pen than we'd like.
$33.3MM is not even Zach Greinke money. Strasburg and Scherzer are making $38MM, and Strasburg is set to make $45MM in 2023. It will take AT LEAST $45MM/year, and someone may throw $50MM per at him. I will be gobsmacked if his total deal is less than $350MM
He did. With better run support, he might have. Run support is what concerns me about tomorrow.
I believe they are brothers. Henry and Murray Itkin. Charming pair.
Not ready to make the practice WS Nationals trophy a conclusive rallying point until we can close them out
A lot of squared-up at-em balls so far.
This is just demoralizing.
Does Alex Rodriguez ever pick the Astros?
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Ball was well struck, but like everything else this Postseason, just died in the air.
It was ugly and the natives are restless.
An Astros win would ease my pain. Actually, it’s more resignation than pain.
Nolan Ryan Bowtie.
So, MLB might finally find something it is willing to discipline an umpire for?
We're the Astros.... its never easy.
Always some shit (Yuli's gesture, Taubman's outburst)
Last fifteen years has brought us unparalleled joy, but also
1. WS sweep in 1st WS ever
2. ALDS loss to the Royals when leading late 2015/16?
3. ALCS loss to the Red Sox 2018
4. WS favorites --- one the highest of all-time
to go with our already stellar heart attack Astros teams of the 70s/80s/90's
Its in our DNA; If we do win this thing, it will be in the most unbelievable way possible.
This is exactly what a crisis manager would tell you to do. Likely adding a promise of a date/time by which he’d address the media again on the subject and then pivoting to “meanwhile we have game 2 coming up...”
Simples.
Well aren't you all a woke bunch. So. Stinkin'. Cute.
A timely hit here or there.. and it'd be a different story.
It would be nice if the aliens returned Alex Bregman to the team and took away this impostor.
NEWS: Astros assistant GM Brandon Taubman was targeting a female reporter wearing a purple bracelet on domestic violence.
She has tweeted frequently on DV; he complained about her tweets offering info on DV hotlines when Roberto Osuna appeared in Astros games in 2018
I have to think that the Astros response (and possibly the idiotic incident from the beginning) means that they believe that this reporter has an axe to grind, or that there is some sort of ongoing history here about this.
I want to know if the SI reporter went to Astros top brass about it before posting the report. We train our staff to report abuse of any kind right away before doing anything else. Don't let a perpetrator have any more time to continue bad behavior than can be helped.
It looks like (1) the Astros got the facts wrong in the press release; (2) Traubman was being an ass at work and embarrassed the organization; and (3) the Stros could have diffused the situation with a simple you-misunderstood-the-motives-but-we-are-so-sorry-our-behavior-was-inexcusable, which was really the only thing appropriate. If Traubman and the Astros intended to defend Osuna they've accomplished exactly the opposite. Osuna and the Astros will never be able to walk away from the domestic violence storyline now.
And because Altuve knows Correra has a cannon he can feed him a nice easy lob where I've seen many middle fielders botch that play with a hurry-up throw. It's also quite a luxury for Bregman, Correa, and Altuve to know if they get it anywhere near Yuli he will scoop it up (it's almost as if he was born to play that position).
Yeah, I thought about that after I'd posted. I'd forgotten for a second that it was Marisnick on deck.
I've been feeling under the weather since last Sunday's marathon where I got two hours of sleep...I only had a couple of Love Street to keep the vibe going, but some Nyquil and a good night's sleep, and I was ready this morning. Morning is my favorite time for a cigar anyway. Might as well be the victory kind.
After the first inning, the Yankees only had one baserunner, and that was the little bloop single by Gregorius.
They let Grenieke get into a rhythm... they're doomed...
They let Grenieke get into a rhythm... they're doomed...
Or the airplane out of Jefferson.
I think I like Kansas better than Boston or Asia or America or Berlin or Alabama but not Chicago. Also if I were a Foreigner on a Journey to the Florida-Georgia line, I would never take an R.E.O. Speedwagon to get there.
They're certainly better than Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Rest assured: Boone will over-manage.
You'd think if they were stealing signs in Game 1 it would have done them more good.
I have a hard time believing that the Astros are going to sweep the Yankees in New York. I am cautiously confident that we will win one of the two games. Which means going back to Houston up 3-2. Not sure how the Yankees go with a bullpen day in game 6 if they are facing elimination. So Yankees start Severino game 6. I'd go Urquidy because I don't want to start Cole on short rest.
Please, MLB, for fuck's sake, sell rights to broadcast your playoff games to a network that isn't run by 3 gibbons in a trenchcoat.
time for MVP to hit a MVP RBI
The voters who wanted to “send a message” or “shake things up”, may have killed an entire people.
I saw something today where Sanchez is still claiming he fouled off that pitch, and that the Yankees got royally fucked in that game. I know no one needs another excuse to hate those fuckers, but...
As far as I know no one ever got killed by a guy that ate too many chili cheese dogs, except maybe the guy that ate too many.
that's great. Makes Sparks look like the calm one by comparison.
The best pitcher in baseball?
My knee jerk reaction is that Roberts is not a good enough manager.
Everything hit hard was hard at ‘em.
Fucking noon starts coupled with that ridiculous “no beer in the office” policy...
I'd rather get whatever we get from JV today and Cole on Thursday then to leave one of those bullets in the chamber.
Let’s see if AJ was serious about only playing for game 3.
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I think Billy Wagner had enjoyed retirement.
Having fired a test missile - successfully - from underwater, North Korea has now withdrawn from negotiations over denuclearization. #ArtOfTheDeal
Trump is now blaming Rick Perry for the call with President Zelenskiy. No really.
Trump spent the day rage-tweeting about Mitt Romney.
This is fine.
I think Girardi is worse. Far worse, actually.
It's the Republicans in Congress. Trump is a corrupt daft narcissistic lunatic and we all knew that going in. The Democrats, in their ham-fisted way, are at least trying establish accountability. The congressional Republicans have utterly abdicated their responsibilities to the nation.
Seriously? You name one of them "Maverick" and the other one something other than "Goose"?
I forget why I had soured so much on McLain... Oh yeah, it was that time he held Selig’s dick when they fucked Crane into the AL. FWIW I’m over the AL switch.
Was it really a tough division though?
Joe Maddon out in Chicago
Clint Hurdle out in Pittsburgh
I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS! I AM GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE!
BoB just pulled his weekly "Holy shit, what the fuck are you doing?" decision. It may be his best one since he put JJ Watt in the wildcat formation at the goal line.
Has Alvarez gotten a hit in the games after his five straight ended? K machine lately.
I think at this point, his confidence is shot and once the confidence is gone, you're done
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Urquidy’s excellent start tonight certainly doesn’t make Hinch’s choice any easier. Or maybe it does.
Would Hinch and the Nerd Cave think about an opener for Miley? Rondon? Devo?
The Browns, down by a TD, picked the Rams with 2+ minutes remaining and 3 timeouts. They moved down the field and had 1st and goal with all timeouts remaining. They too their 1st timeout on 4th and goal.
Of for BOB to have such calmness in the face of the clock.
That was a ridiculous double-play.
Never. A question without an easy answer is whether Pelosi/Dems will do a damn thing about it.
What was MM thinking? He had no chance.
I will be surprised if Odor is still a Ranger next season. But I will still hate the Rangers for some reason. And I lived in the Metroplex for more years than I have lived anywhere. They just don't do things with the same class as the Astros do. Even their cable broadcast crew and presentation annoys me. Hell they are copying the Astros stadium design.
Over Macho Grande?
I don't think I'll ever be over Macho Grande.
You should have told him about the Panama Canal.
I like Blum’s oft-repeated comment when Alvarez hits one:
“This is not normal.”
Correa returns to the Astros tonight. Hitting 7th. Will probably play only a few innings.
Maybe Cora will instruct them in the Ways of Luhnow.
Limey - check your PM
The loss is 100% on O’Brien.
Ha! So much for draft grades being worth a fuck. Looks like I'll finish with the lowest points total of all for week one. Ha!
Indeed, it could have gone either way. If Texas converts in the red zone in the first quarter, the game might have turned out very differently. Like I said, I love Ehlinger. He's a leader and one helluva QB. In my opinion, Texas is indeed back. It's clear beyond cavil that, after considering your Georgia asswhipping in the bowl game and this game with LSU, the difference betwen the SEC and Texas is zero.
Everyone raised their batting average today except Springer. He was 1 for 7.
And a fun game it was. Ehlinger is the real deal. I love the new look Tiger offense. I feel blessed to get out of Austin with a W.
This is how much contempt they have for their voters. They know they can do something as ridiculous as this, and it won’t hurt them. Their voters will just accept the sharpie-doctored map as real and continue on without a curious synapse ever firing.
Not a win against a truly elite team, but also not that.
So I guess the moral of this story is if you DO want to launder money, don't ask Dotel.
Has there been a report on what is wrong with McHugh?
One game? What do you mean?
The league office should start mandating breathalyzer tests prior to trades.
Wtf happened to the cutoff man? Toro fucked that up.
Walked the lead off man. Not Greinke’s best game.
I just saw that, and I agree.
But we're existing in a world of asymmetric realities where the president can say made-up shit all day long, but a journalist has to apologize for reporting something - that could well be 100% true - but for which he has only one source.
Meanwhile, Deutschedramat has responded to a court order to state whether they have certain documents relating to Trump's finances, including his tax returns. A source told Lawrence O'Donnell that the bank confirmed they had some (or some parts) of Trump's tax returns, and also that some of his loans had Russian co-signers.
By way of confirmation, Trump's lawyers are threatening O'Donnell with legal action.
The possibility that he has Russian co-signers on loans should be a blaring, giant, off the charts scandal. It isn't.
BTW, on this very day in 2014, Obama wore a tan suit to the White House briefing room, and conservatives proclaimed the end of civilization as we know it.
Fuck. He is done.
ETA: who takes his innings?
Springer walks.
So candidates for ugliest play:
E1
E2
Bases loaded 2 out walk trailing 13-0
Springer walks.
So candidates for ugliest play:
E1
E2
Bases loaded 2 out walk trailing 13-0
He was out either way.
Wonder if he’ll get to RR in time to play tonight? Game 2 of 4 game series with SA. RR has a two game lead.
Who's gonna pay for that wall, though?
Just in case anyone thought I was joking: https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html
I'll take it that you missed the Texans game last night.
Holy crap:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/astros/article/Yordan-Alvarez-damage-BP-HR-Jumbotron-Minute-Maid-14376170.php
I wonder if he has business cards that read:
Michael Brantley
Hitter
I like Josh going the other way.
Usually I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what Roger Angell was voting on.
Except that's not the 40-man move.
There's one way to find out:
Kevin Eshenfelder
Taking strike 3
Bud Selig
Jim Edmonds diving catch
Carlos Zambrano
Tony LaRussa
Pujols
Cubs fans
Cubs fans
Cubs fans
Bad news coming on Correa?
I can only imagine this is about offensive expectations.
Yes, very disloyal to the 2nd coming of God. Well he didn't actually say that himself. He was just tweeting a tweet when someone else said it.
My first thought was maybe he'll end up getting charged by 12 other countries.
All fried chicken is good, but if I set out with a specific hankering for it, either Frenchy's or Himalaya is my destination.
I call 2 for his last 23 ice cold.
For me, Yordan is too high. The league's pitchers have adjusted. Until he adjusts back I'd have him at 6 with Gurriel at 5. Bregman and Brantley are red hot. I'd leave them at 3 and 4. Correa is so cold I'd put him at 7.
I have been playing around with lineups. Catcher and Reddick/Marisnick at the bottom are set. What do y’all think about this:
Springer
Altuve
Yordan
Bregman
Brantley
Correa
Gurriel
Chirinos/Maldonado
Reddick/Marisnick
I'm amazed at how quickly Greinke gets to the third base line to field a swinging bunt.
No way we win this game. Infuriating.
Boneheaded play by Sanchez
The worst part is having to wait for a damn west coast game at 9pm.
"Not super serious" == "Amputation not recommended at this time"
True, esp when they are being paid well to play well.
The good news is he says he feels great; the bad news is he has been pitching lousy.
That stupidfuck error.
Fucking brutal.
Woof. I'll pay good money to not ever hear Kalas do his McConaughey impression again.
That was a bomb.
2nd and 3rd and nobody out and got NOTHING from it.
Wow.
Straw has played 2 games in the minor leagues at 2B.
Good advice from Happy, Snuffy. Relax. This place can be tough at times, but welcomes knowledgeable Astros fans. You seem to be one.
Yes. They confirmed that was Jr's plaque.
Anybody here been to Camden?
Two best hitters I have seen:
Ted Williams
Barry Bonds
Best chance to be the buzzsaw is to have a lot of sharp teeth.
1998 is in the Astrosdome so there is that contextual difference. I still like 2019 better. But I would like to have seen what 1998 could put up in MMP.
I like turtles.
I made it two outs before I muted the TV.
Jesus Christ, this broadcast is like a punishment for good fans.
Correa!
I plan on watching tonight, with my data hanging out in full view.
Exactly. These guys speak English, but some are not comfortable speaking to the media without an interpreter. That gives the impression they do not speak or understand English, which is wrong.
Wonder who you think the apprentice is?
I hope the Astros have someone learning from Strom to take over when he leaves. They've got to. If I can think of it, they've been doing it for years.
Bregman, Springer and Brantley are on notice.
Carlos is pressing...
Alvarez don't fuck around.
They just showed a clip from him at the press conference with all the new additions. He seems like a unique and entertaining one.
Good debate I saw on Twitter today. Which is the better 3 man rotation, Clemens/Oswalt/ Pettitte or Verlander/Cole/Greinke?
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They can trade him within the seven-day window, right? See White, T. and Kemp, T.
With the new trade deadline rules, can you trade a DFA after the deadline? How does that work?
(Not that the Astros would want Lucroy right now - just a general question.)
The Astros are fortunate to have AJ Hinch-who my friend not prone to superlatives calls “the best communicator in baseball-at the helm.
Lucroy DFA to make room for Stassi.
According to the twitter, Springer called him Ron Burgundy when Reddick donned a headset.
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Yordan makes oppo power look effortless.
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So nice to have an arm like Correa at short
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If they go with 13 pitchers then Straw will be sent down.
If I didn't know better I'd guess he's on the spectrum.
Watching Astros pre-game right now and Stanton is very excited about Sanchez. "this is a very good pitcher" not having a very good season right now but Strom will help him turn it around or to those effects.
It's such an incredible lineup that the Mother of God is fifth in the rotation.
Blocked by Alvarez whether he hits or not.
This seems like a great trade, IMO as Beer and Bukauskas seem marginal to me, Martin is hurt and Rojas might be good, but not a great need for us at the moment.
What about the Trey Mancini trade discussions? Have those just died?
That was crazy. Holy shit
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Obvious to me that other pieces have to be moving to finish this deal but
Pretty good deal for Cleveland, not a fan of Puig but he can play. They also get a good pitching prospect and a pretty good outfiled bat in Reyes
Reds get a really good but basket case pitcher and only give up a rental(Puig) and their best prospect, which they might regret.
And so far the Padres get... an outfield prospect. More has to be coming in for the Padres, otherwise this makes absolutely no sense for them.
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Screwball for screwball
Puig hasn’t been pulled from tonight’s game yet and he got into a fight on the field a minute ago. I am howling.
Bauer and Puig on the same team?
Please let it be so.
Brantley lines to RF, umpire signals out then safe on the trap, Altuve scores.
We'll have a review.
Did not see that coming.
TOP2:
Correa flies to CF - just missed it, towards the end of the bat
Yuli lines one up the middle, giving him a 17 game hitting streak
Pause while the grounds crew repairs a huge piece of turf that Lindor pulled up
Ok, I am dense. I’d like to blame my head injury, but I cannot. I was dumb before it. I should have known you were being facetious. Mea culpa.
Amazing. Rosenthal and others have reported the Astros linked to just about every good starting pitcher. The job Luhnow is doing of putting everyone off is incredible. Certainly all of the other post-season contenders are wondering what the Astros are going to do. If this keeps them occupied at all then fantastic.
Lots of fun and razzle dazzle to enter August with Tony Watson added to the team.
Huh. So that's why 911truth.org loads a lot faster than it used to.
Now hearing Bumgarner
Also it's being tweeted that the Stems have asked in return for Thor:
Twins - Buxton
Sox - Benintendi
So they're probably asking for Altuve.
Is Wheeler expected to pitch better than his 4.71 ERA seems to indicate?
Going for what?
Why would the Mets do this?
What a turd Bauer is.
https://twitter.com/fskansascity/status/1155571432845279232?s=21
My insider says Minor is going to happen. No other details.
What was the price?
JP Morosi reporting that after last night’s loss in Miami, the Diamondbacks have decided to sell off and will listen on anyone.
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They want pitching? So do we.
Thought they wanted a hitter. Can you believe anything the pundits write?”
Pretty funny Jacksonian and I are arguing about Fisher as a pinch runner in the context of a Syndergard deal.
Bingo. Plenty of people and $$ in the Bay Area to support two teams. Seems to me they really should grab the San Jose area.
Dunno. I just don’t think Tucker alone would get both.
ETA: I try to avoid those national speculation sites because they are only guessing. One today, however, matched up the Astros with Syndergard, Vasquez (Pirates LH reliever), and James McCann. That would be a nice haul.
The Mets?
Oh, come on. This is baseball, not cloak and dagger.
Now 7. Was 10.
I thought White had already been DFA. Did he clear waivers? What am I missing?
I'm afraid his strategy of normalizing his appalling behavior has worked. Boiling frog and all that. I fear that absent some galvanizing event (and I shudder to think what that might be), there's going to be enough apathy on the left that he'll be able to use his gerrymandered electoral votes to squeak into another term. It's an incredibly depressing thought.
I was listening to WFAN last night, and Steve Sommers suggested that the gamers should trade Syndergaard for Tucker, Whitley, and Yordan. Wow. Anything else?
I could see the Astros trading one of Tucker or Whitley + others for Syndergaard. But I would imagine that any calls about Yordan are very short and usually end with Luhnow laughing maniacally as he hangs up.
Yep, but who the hell might be available?
I like to get the gnus from you gnuys.
Gary Gnu?
James is indeed not right. Loss of 5-7mph on the FB, shaking arm repeatedly.
“Oim naught dead yet!”
My guy's implemented Operation Shutdown.
There are ongoing conversations at the highest level about Minor.
He was a feel good story, until he decided gaining 100 lbs over the off-season was more important than being a professional athlete. Death by cheeseburger.
Excellent points. I knew we had no shot at the Big Unit, but I really thought we had Beltran.
Tying runs on base, no outs.
Fuck. Both wall scrapers
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Another bad line in a GCL start:
2.2 IP, 1 H, 2 ER, 1 R, 6 BB, 5 K, 0 HR
I’m assuming what’s going on is a mechanical work over, but that’s just my uneducated guess.
Why? Pessimism or information?
He struck out looking with runners on to end the game.
Syndergaard is latest from my insider.
Wasn't it about a teacher by day and a super hero/spy at night? Saving lives and winning hearts and minds 24/7.
A Proust worthy thread. HD and Barzilla - those were the days. Things seem tame now.
Love this place, and I still check in occasionally.
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dicks.
I have been also. I do not remember the year, but Mark was a kid.
Ramirez catches a 3-game suspension, Ausmus gets 1. Didn't expect that.
Everyone knew it was coming. Jake said "you made your point, now let's move on and play ball". Let's hope everyone else takes notice and that's the end of it.
Rondon is a fucking joke.
Did you see where Ken Giles was out over the weekend with nerve discomfort due to a massage? Guess he and Carlos go to the same masseuse.
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My question is, why did they send Sneed down? He is the inning eater the Astros need.
Is this just a save the bullpen at all costs kind of game?
Canning gets canned. Taylor Cole to pitch.
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Unless Framber is bad in the first inning he pitches.
Any word on Bregman?
If you paid him enough, he'd probably leave the roof open.
If they only had a fedora with that styling.
I like the caps.
Bullpen, we need a zero.
You know, it's not that Berkman doesn't have good insights. He just needs to stick to the things that add something to the discussion.
Alvarez almost took Ramirez's arm off with that line drive
MMP is reaching Wrigley status in the “scream for long fly balls” category.
White is awful.
Apparently running the bases on all those hits last night was a little too much for Uncle Mike's hammy.
https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/1147603321244606465?s=19
He conceded last night he has to make adjustments to keep the balls in the park. Any bets on what he’ll do?
Ah, 20-20 hindsight never is wrong.
The highlight for me was Berkman’s admission that he eats possum.
This pitcher would have been a lot cooler if his last name was Buttery
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Trout had no shot at it. It hit the top of the wall. Terrible read I thought.
His last start in RR. I read he was taken out, and the worry was a “serious injury.”
Morgan's header puts the US up at 31 minutes. On her 30th birthday.
Wow, only 27. And just got married this past offseason.
Corbin Martin to the 60-day IL? It's either that or a dfa and I don't think they are going to dfa White just yet. The other dfa option is AJ Reed.
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Bad result but great AB.
What's up Gurriel? Discomfort?
He did not just barely miss it either.
See what happens when humble yourself?
Yuli owes me for all those fucking popups
Why?
PETTIS WHAT THE FUCK!?
Always fun when a mediocre former teammate shoves it squarely up your ass by doing nothing but throwing hittable strikes that are inexplicably being watched.
They could find themselves in second place by the end of the weekend.
Discomfort encompasses everything from a bruise to amputation.
The just announced: "Left knee discomfort".
That reminds me, who is the emergency catcher? I would assume Aledmys if he's healthy but I can't think of any real candidate on this roster.
I have seen some speculation that Cy Sneed is the call up and that makes some sense, as much sense as anybody else anyway. The issue is getting him on the 40-man but I think they may transfer Smith to the 60-day IL for now and cross that bridge when he's ready to return
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She has an excellent lawyer.
Corbin Martin to the DL, being evaluated for elbow pain.
Considering he's shaped like a pumpkin, I'll allow it.
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Certainly would help if the US ladies had any accuracy what so ever on their balls in the box. So many whiffed chances thanks to bad passes.
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They’re going through motions, perhaps banking on the injured to rejion the team
The Blues are NHL Champions.
How did he look moving and running?
Scotland got screwed by the VAR today. Speaking as an ex goal keeper.
Over-analyze? Really? Okay, tell me the sacred cows on the team so I'll never mention them again in any post. You guys are thin-skinned.
Could we please get a couple runs off these slapdicks?
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Yuli swings through three fastballs. That's discouraging.
Brantley with a soft fly ball on the first pitch. Good thing Straw can't run or anything, or he'd feel cheated at not being given the opportunity to get into scoring position.
That was an unfortunate call by Pettis. Bregman could have walked home with the tying run.
Houston brought him up and made him a regular. What happened?
The how, where, and why does not matter, mainly because I do not have a fucking clue, but heed this warning boys and girls: post-concussion syndrome is not a walk in the park and is no joke.
That brings us back to Stroman. As I understand it, there are two more years of club control. Toronto has been a good trading partner lately. Are they ready to send him on? Would it take Tucker to get him? Could Strom improve his control?
“Dumping” him? WTF?
Tucker has failed once in MLB when they gave him LF. He is no Alvarez in any respect.
Alvarez did a nice job of navigating the corner of the Crawford Boxes to make the catch in the dead zone in LF. He looks smoother out there today than when I saw him in Round Rock.
Probably. They were supposedly targeting one of their top guys for the GM replacement.
That's a fast human.
Boston sucks.
Interesting he chooses to be on the side of the Empire.