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    I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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1 minute ago, Scraps said:

Lmao nice play dildo

 

wtf was that

1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

Oh angels 

They bought the Astros defensive drills video

1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Someone make a gif of Hader’s celebration please.

spaghetti ?

Someone make a gif of Hader’s celebration please.
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He got out of it, and the Angels went to their pen in the 3rd, so it's looking good for us tonight. 1st and 3rd with nobody out to start the 4th.

JV isn’t convincing anyone that he deserves a spot in the playoff rotation. 

Breggy trying to lock up that extension tonight

Can we stop trying to get JV qualified for a win? Winning the game is more important 

i would have let him face one more guy

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3 minutes ago, runthebone said:

Verlander really trying to get to 300?

 

Just now, UTHornFan014 said:

Can we stop trying to get JV qualified for a win? Winning the game is more important 

If spotting him that kind of lead at home against a cellar dweller isn't enough to get a W, I'm not sure what will be again. He's hanging on by a thin, thin thread. 

Gonna be weird leaving Verlander off the playoff roster, but he's left us no choice.

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

i would have let face one more guy

So that it could be a 1 run game?

 

Just now, runthebone said:

JV fucking up scoring 8 is so shitty

Need the offense to go back to work to save Abreu and Hader 

Yordan will not be playing Sunday (if not tomorrow)

can’t believe he missed two cement mixers on back to back pitches 


 

Edited by UTexasFight

Is it really even possible for not only the Astros, but any of the 30 MLB teams to tell a pitcher of Verlander’s stature and record to say “Sorry Mr. Hall of Fame, we just can't afford to have you on our playoff rotation”.

Could that ever happen? Because honestly I don't know. 

I hope, mercifully, that Verlander has an “injury” and though he was really looking forward to pitching in the postseason, there’s just too much discomfort to risk further injury. 

if jv pitches against cleaveland, that makes him unavailable for the 3 game series 

10 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

We need to start hitting some HR and XBH again. No dingers in the past 5 games and only something like 15 in our last 20.

Singles, easy flyouts, and strikeouts are getting kinda boring.

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(for the HR part.. we have 2 of those…

but still 9 (!) singles in 4.1)

if jv pitches against cleaveland, that makes him unavailable for the 3 game series 
It doesnt though
14 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

if jv pitches against cleaveland, that makes him unavailable for the 3 game series 

This is the way… but it doesn’t quite work. He’d pitch game 1 of the Cleveland series and be on normal rest for game 2 of WC.

 But anyone considering him a realistic option as one of our top 3 starters for the WC round needs their head examined… although we’ve been saying that about Espada for ~5 months now.

Instead what will happen is we have brown, Framber, kichuci for the Seattle series and give them all extra rest ahead of the WC round. They’ll flip the order and have Framber for game 1. Not sure if they’ll go brown, kikuchi or vice versa. 

i said it after his shitty start in Cincy: if you’re going to use JV at all, you do it game 1 of the LDS so you have 4 games to recover if it goes poorly. I haven’t mapped it out but we have an extra day off in the LDS as well again this year (between games 1 and 2) in additional to after games 2 and 4.

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Angels are just doing their part keeping this close to keep me from flipping over to that highly anticipated Illinois/Nebraska grudge match 

Wave starts.....can't get an out

19 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

This is the way… but it doesn’t quite work. He’d pitch game 1 of the Cleveland series and be on normal rest for game 2 of WC.

 But anyone considering him a realistic option as one of our top 3 starters for the WC round needs their head examined… although we’ve been saying that about Espada for ~5 months now.

Instead what will happen is we have brown, Framber, kichuci for the Seattle series and give them all extra rest ahead of the WC round. They’ll flip the order and have Framber for game 1. Not sure if they’ll go brown, kikuchi or vice versa. 

i said it after his shitty start in Cincy: if you’re going to use JV at all, you do it game 1 of the LDS so you have 4 games to recover if it goes poorly. I haven’t mapped it out but we have an extra day off in the LDS as well again this year (between games 1 and 2) in additional to after games 2 and 4.

After that debacle against Arizona where JV made Espada walk back to the dugout with his tail between his legs, only to turn around and further implode, I hope Espada learned his fucking lesson and doesn’t kowtow to JV ever again. Dude is washed. 

love you JV for all the awesome memories… but it’s time to go spend more time with Kate, I hope you like her personality 

14 minutes ago, oh_snap said:

After that debacle against Arizona where JV made Espada walk back to the dugout with his tail between his legs, only to turn around and further implode, I hope Espada learned his fucking lesson and doesn’t kowtow to JV ever again. Dude is washed. 

 

That was in Cincinnati. Labor Day. When we actually had a chance to win. (It was 2-2 and he left him with 2 outs in the 4th at over 90 pitches and then a bloop single scored two. Reliever comes in and allows that guy to score. 5-2.

we lose 5-3.

 

arizona was the Sunday night disaster where he started to melt down in the 3rd and that early in the game you might as well leave him in to see if he can get out of it and save the pen (he couldn’t).

Would be nice to get Altuve and Alvarez going before the playoffs.  You know Jose wants to get to .300

14 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

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When has the back of the baseball card ever failed us!

 

love the guy but I feel pretty comfortable this is not a Nolan Ryan situation where you risk letting the guy walk and he still has 5 (or even 2) good years left  (JV is the same age now as Nolan was when McCullen let him walk…literally 3 weeks younger).

His stuff may actually be comparable to Ryan’s at the end of his career. Unfortunately, the offense in the majors in the late 2020s is not the same as the early 90s.

18 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

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If you open your mind and look into the bright light, the can actually see Father Time. He’s near. 

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