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I'm honestly scared they will try and make Ausmus bench coach. Hoping he has too much pride to accept that. Don't want Bagwell having that much influence in the dugout. I actually am cool with him having some level of front office influence. Just need to keep it in the proper vertical for him

Correct hire, and really the only correct one available. He has the trust of the clubhouse and has earned the shot. Should have gotten it this year

I agree with you. Though somewhere between 5 and 10% of the hall wasn't as good of a player as Lance.

We just going to ignore that somehow we couldn't find a place for that guy at Texas despite his desire to come here? Just crazy. Lance was sneaky athletic for a guy that looks a lot closer to Kruk than Acuna

Uhh, have you cheated on her before or something? Or just woman brain going to the worst possible scenario??

Figured it out. It was when he lied that he had never met Clanton. And I said: Doubling down on lying is never a good idea man. You know damn well you know him just like all other Astros fans/media do. Just stop. You were wrong, it was dumb, move on That got me blocked ahahahahahahaha

Given I've never been blocked by anyone, and I don't remember what he said or I said, but apparently someone that is Charmin soft o

https://www.mlb.com/news/astros-begin-interviewing-for-manager-position Looks like they are actually beginning interviews. Espada first I like the point McTaggert makes, that this is Brown's first chance to ever interview managers. It's wise to let him go through a full process. Even if Espada is the guy already. Which is almost definitely is.

Well Major League Managers care. A lot actually. And it's a business at the end of the day. I'm not saying I agree with it. Not even a little bit. At least not bringing him in the next inning. And Greinke should have stayed in. But that's still what happened

Seriously man, it's like it's willful at this point. That article even said "Gerrit Cole and AJ Hinch had agreed on some rules for how he would be used in Game 7. He wasn’t coming in in the middle of the inning and wasn’t pitching if they didn’t have the lead. Cole warmed up on his own earlier in the game." They agreed on the rules before the game. Cole warmed himself up. In case it's unclear, like it is in that article, those were the rules Cole put in place according to everyone I've ever heard from the Astros team and behind the scenes from the media guys I know. The "writer" in that article graduated from Iowa State in 2019. He's effectively a blogger. And while I started and ran The Dream Shake for almost a decade, I totally get that some writers/bloggers have more access than others. Sean had no access, he wasn't even on an Astros site at the time. He's a Cubs fan and blogger. Basically you quoted bleacher report here and a guy put an opinion out. It has been proven many times to be incorrect. The only person Cole has to be pissed at is himself. Also, it was the wrong move and everyone would have lit AJ up if he did that and it failed. He was on less than 2 days rest at that point. That just about never goes well. Your dominant lock them down reliever? That usually goes okay. It didn't this time. Your narrative is incorrect.

Jeebus man, it's called reading comprehension. Just actually read what was written and you will understand what was stated. Cole did NOT want to be in the game. AJ knew that. He was personally told. Cole told EVERYONE. So putting a guy in whose head was not in it and was on short rest was a serious role of the dice. Will Harris and his absolutely dominant season was not a role of the dice. It was the odds on favorite best move. Now not putting Cole in during the clean inning? That's on AJ.

Seems like you didn't read anything I just wrote. It absolutely wasn't as simple as that. Why are you quoting "the book" I didn't say anything about the book. In fact the book would say pitch Harris there. What should have happened is Grienke stays in. Cole was never, ever coming in there.

The narrative that exists on this is so silly and just factually doesn't take into account all the issues. If anyone wants to say that Hinch should have left Grienke in, I'm all ears, but he had proven all year that wasn't the best idea, despite my belief that was still the answer. But Cole coming in was not really a wise option for Hinch because there were tons of factors involved: 1. Cole was on short rest 2. Cole specifically said he did not want to come in mid inning 3. Cole was a FA after the year, and the Astros did want to resign him. So going against his wishes was a bad idea. It was a horrible idea if they did it and he blew up. 4. Will Harris was absolute filthy that year. And threw an absolutely perfect pitch, that somehow Kendrick connected on. I doubt anyone can find a time all year that pitch was thrown that it wasn't a positive for the Astros. He had a 0.00 era in the previous rounds. And the same through the first 2 games he pitched. He was tired, but he was still the best non-Cole option by a million miles.

I've been saying that about Bagwell all along. No one I know that has any intimate knowledge of the Astros thinks he's even close to "in charge" or a "decision maker". He's an adviser, and frankly is not as anti analytics as people try and act like he is. And that's exactly my Espada concern. I think he'll be fine. My guess is that teams felt his heart wasn't in losing the opportunity to take over for Dusty. But that's just a hunch and hope.

Enjoy man. I've had a fun time watching videos of Rangers fans finally getting that same relief we did in 2017. It really is crazy how sports affects us. Hope you have a blast.

When I say "pay up" I don't mean spend money stupidly. I mean actually bring his checkbook to the table and get the heck out of the way. Plenty of teams get FAs and succeed, see Bryce Harper, Turner (after somehow they cheered him), Freeman, etc., really a lot of the bigger signings. Maybe they aren't going to work out for 10 years, but you don't F your window because you don't want to MAYBE F up a future window. You have to weight all the factors. Guys can get bought out. Guys can be traded with money attached. Use your money wisely that you've earned, but you can't just hoard it. Also, baseball owners are making money hand over fist. They always have. There is way, way more money out there. The team economics for top half of teams could probably support $300MM payrolls pretty easily. It can't simply be "we don't sign long term contracts" that will not work out much longer. Unless we want more 37+ guys on the roster. That's the cost of doing business in today's baseball. And Crane got very lucky with Luhnow and getting setup to succeed without it. That's not happening again. I don't hate the idea of Chapman with our pitching coaches. And if he's that cheap that's a no brainer. Guy is volatile, but you can't teach 105. You can teach some control and mechanic changes. Montero was worth his contract this year. Early issues notwithstanding, I still think that deal is going to end up looking very reasonable.

Crane should have roughly infinite money having never really gone over the cap and being in the ALCS 7 years in a row. There is zero excuse not to pay up and get FAs. We've had top of the league crowds for that whole time. And he owns the network again. Zero excuses And if the Rangers sign Ohtani and we don't even try I may snap. And y'all know I'm a bit of a calm, sunshine pumper.

Ron is maybe the greatest fielding coach in MLB history. The guy is an absolute legend. I thought he was a lot of fun with the Rangers. I mean none of that stops what you said from being any less true.

It is the one great thing about being color blind. "why are you asking me?" And then pretend to be hurt that she wasn't sensitive to it haha

This is how it ultimately works at almost every sports franchise there is. The owner signs off, they are always the final decision unless they are absentee. A good owner listens to his people, just makes sure they did their job thoroughly.

Not alone at all. I like AJ the guy. But he was a "I'm not in the way of the analytics" manager. Which is awesome to an extent. He was nice so the guys liked him, I'm not sure they thought he was an amazing baseball mind though. I am fine with him coming back and think he'll do a great job, but Luhnow is the guy we have been missing, not AJ. Espada could do just what AJ can, and is probably the right answer

Yeah no, not unless it starts after 05. 1986, with Mike Scott ready to roll. 1998 2nd We were the WS favorite and the best team of that Astros era. Crushing losses to Kevin Brown / Padres. 2005 getting swept next. Then 2019 because it was the best team in MLB history IMO but we had also just won the WS a few years before. This one didn't hurt me at all honestly. We just won the WS last year and have been back over and over I wasn't old enough for 1981 to hurt much. I do sort of remember it, but was 5

I will say that I've talked to Berkman a lot over the years, back when I was doing radio with 1560 and those guys he was always around and I've seen him a bunch since then at events and other stuff. He has an excellent baseball mind and I've always thought he would be a great manager in the bigs. Don't think he wants that much responsibility though.

Not really possible to move on. He doesn't harm the team being on it if he does figure it out. And you're in the same spot if he doesn't. You simply have to think of his contract (which insurance has paid for a few seasons anyway) as a sunk cost and think of him like a kid coming up hoping to make the team. But he's a 40 man guy, and going to be for at least the next two years. Maybe year 3 we would designate if we had too. No way that happens prior. Maybe you get lucky and someone trades a bag of balls for him, but we'd have to pay most of his contract so what's the point?

The Rangers spent almost a billion dollars to beat us, and it took them to Game 7, and we still won the division. Time to spend that money Jimmy. If we don't even try to talk to Shohei I might join some of you in being a smidge upset with Crane. We won't get him, but we should go all out trying.