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#20901

Gaining ground tonight feels like a miracle. We haven't been within 1.5 of first place since Aug 4th. So very stupid that this team couldn't take advantage of the Rangers getting swept over the weekend and decided it was a great time to get swept as well. 

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#20902

Podcast 21: Group Therapy! We try to come to grips with the Astros season- rationalize what’s been going on, talk schedule some and lick our wounds after a rough week. Plus, Gabe says something nice about Maldonado

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KLpqSJoZGJQPWn38ZDVNI?si=qT0HNjcbQfmjbRdy5KkTMw

Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...n-astros-podcast/id1683955456?i=1000625205985

Amazon:
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8...he-season?ref=dm_sh_rGGN13AwkM7vb2ce7RKdXt5qX

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#20903
7 hours ago, Gourmand said:

Gaining ground tonight feels like a miracle. We haven't been within 1.5 of first place since Aug 4th. So very stupid that this team couldn't take advantage of the Rangers getting swept over the weekend and decided it was a great time to get swept as well. 

Yeah... the buried lede with all of the moaning this weekend is that despite tripping over our dicks, we lost no ground on the division lead.  Astros can still easily win this division and get the bye.  And the Astros still potentially have a couple of rounds in the chamber for the final stretch with Brantley and Abreu.  Yeah, they are longshots, but maybe one of them is the draw that gets us to an inside straight on the river.  Of course, you should never draw to the inside straight, but we are where we are.

#20904
40 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Yeah... the buried lede with all of the moaning this weekend is that despite tripping over our dicks, we lost no ground on the division lead.  Astros can still easily win this division and get the bye.  And the Astros still potentially have a couple of rounds in the chamber for the final stretch with Brantley and Abreu.  Yeah, they are longshots, but maybe one of them is the draw that gets us to an inside straight on the river.  Of course, you should never draw to the inside straight, but we are where we are.

Brantley should be a platoon guy that hits 7th against RHP.  But if that happens and Abreu gets back to where he was in June/July before the back flared up that would be pretty sexy lineup.

vRHP

Diaz Abreu Altuve Pena Bregman Alvarez Chaz Tucker Brantley.  If Pena is your #9 hitter and Abreu is your #8 hitter that lineup fucks.  

#20905
18 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Diaz Abreu Altuve Pena Bregman Alvarez Chaz Tucker Brantley

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#20906
1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Astros can still easily win this division and get the bye.

fify.

If this season has proved anything with all the injuries and illnesses and inconsistent play, it's the difficulty with which this team has gaining ground on the Rangers. One thing this team has not done this year that every Astros team since 2017 accomplished (covid season excluded for obvious reasons) was a double-digit winning streak. This year's longest winning streak was eight games back in May and during that streak the Astros went from 4 gb to 1 gb and then promptly lost two straight to fall to 3 gm behind. That is this season in a nutshell imo. 

I don't expect this current margin of difference in the standings to improve positively in our direction with the way this lineup is hitting and the state of the starting pitching lately. It's not impossible of course and Fangraphs says the Astros are the current favorite out of the AL to win the WS but nothing about winning this division will be easy. We still have not logged a single day of sole possession of first place. 

#20907
10 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

fify.

True... nothing this season has come easily.  When I said easily, I was simply referring to the math.  Overcoming a 1.5 game deficit with 36 left to play is not a huge stretch. 

#20908
26 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

We still have not logged a single day of sole possession of first place. 

That’s why it will be so much sweeter when we still win the division 

#20911
5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Right now if you could guarantee me the 3rd WC spot right now I would take that.  

Come Oct. 1, I'd certainly take playing well in the final WC spot over leading the West with key guys gimpy or our rotation still a train wreck. 

#20915

No.  We do NOT want to have the best chance to win.

#20919
Updated lineup:2B Altuve3B BregmanRF TuckerDH DiazLF McCormickCF Dubón1B SingletonSS PeñaC Maldonado https://t.co/dtHlW77AYV

 

#20920

I am such a stupid mother fucker. I've been reading the tea leaves and I said that I thought Dusty had his reign of terror yanked from him and that the organization was going to have a sense of urgency.  Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. You are a dumb motherfucker Wulaw.  Dumb motherfucker. 

#20921
Astros lineup change: Yainer Diaz now at DH for Yordan Alvarez, who was scratched after jamming left index finger in a door at his house.

 

#20922
3 minutes ago, The Dog said:
Updated lineup:2B Altuve3B BregmanRF TuckerDH DiazLF McCormickCF Dubón1B SingletonSS PeñaC Maldonado https://t.co/dtHlW77AYV

 

From not in the lineup to hitting cleanup.  Fuck you Dusty Baker.  Also- fuck- Yordan is hurt.  That ain't great. 

Just now, The Dog said:
Astros lineup change: Yainer Diaz now at DH for Yordan Alvarez, who was scratched after jamming left index finger in a door at his house.

 

For fucks sake.  This fucking team.  this fucking year. 

#20923
2 minutes ago, The Dog said:
Astros lineup change: Yainer Diaz now at DH for Yordan Alvarez, who was scratched after jamming left index finger in a door at his house.

 

This doesn't make any sense

#20927
1 hour ago, The Dog said:
Astros lineup change: Yainer Diaz now at DH for Yordan Alvarez, who was scratched after jamming left index finger in a door at his house.

 

He's a B2 bomber that keeps missing missions because we're always out of fix-a-flat. 

#20928
1 hour ago, dr99 said:

This doesn't make any sense

This is a lie on the level of Correa's shower incident and Alou running on a treadmill. What I don't understand is why they told the truth for poor ole Kazuo.

Kerry Von Erich wrestled with a fake foot for the last 8+ years of his career. C'mon a fucking jammed finger.

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#20929

Baseball players are just soft. The shit they come up with to miss time is laughable. Unless that finger is broke, put your glove on, tape the motherfuckers together and go swing the bat. Only have had warning track power lately anyway. Slap the ball into right field slappy.

#20931

I’m not sure why Dusty wouldn’t just put Diaz at first and Singleton at DH. In the event we have to pinch hit for Maldy we could move Diaz to catcher and not lose the DH. Not that we really have a pinch hitter on the bench anyway. 

#20932
1 hour ago, The Dog said:
Astros lineup change: Yainer Diaz now at DH for Yordan Alvarez, who was scratched after jamming left index finger in a door at his house.

 

Horseshit. What really happened? When was the last time anybody on here jammed their finger in a door?

#20934
33 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Fuck it. We don’t need Yordan. We had a meeting. 


we need Yordan to bring more energy to the bench 

#20935
44 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Well, the way Yordan heals, he is going to be out for 4 weeks.

If we are lucky enough to make the playoffs as the wild card maybe he will be ready to PH by then. Maybe. 

#20936
Updated lineup:2B Altuve3B BregmanRF Tucker1B DiazLF McCormickCF DubónDH SingletonSS PeñaC Maldonado https://t.co/1m776ieWHX

 

#20939
54 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

I’m not sure why Dusty wouldn’t just put Diaz at first and Singleton at DH. In the event we have to pinch hit for Maldy we could move Diaz to catcher and not lose the DH. Not that we really have a pinch hitter on the bench anyway. 

 

11 minutes ago, The Dog said:
Updated lineup:2B Altuve3B BregmanRF Tucker1B DiazLF McCormickCF DubónDH SingletonSS PeñaC Maldonado https://t.co/1m776ieWHX

 

Proof that Dusty reads Surly

#20940
11 minutes ago, dr99 said:

 

Proof that Dusty reads Surly

Well damn! I did say that Chaz should bat after Tucker and Yordan to take advantage of left handed relievers coming in to face them….hey Dusty…about this Maldonado thing….

#20941

Singleton will go 0 for 3, with a walk. 
 

Or he’ll get some bullshit infield hit or blooper that came off his bat like a wet noodle. 

#20943

Baker is such an old coot. Trying to bench Diaz to play Singleton. Fuck you, you old fart. Singleton isn’t someone that needs to be getting reps. Motherfucker. 

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