2023 Houston Astros Thread

[WBT 20561]

Jeez

[Dutchrudder 11137]

Damn, Correa was the MVP tonight. Good for him, sucks for us. Get 'em next time. 

[oh_snap 694]

Go get ‘em on Tuesday

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

terrible sports weekend 

[txduck87 985]

Minnesota is gonna be the loudest stadium in baseball history. We'll have no chance of hearing the pitch com. We're fucked.

Scares ya to death.

[tx 3 putt 76906]

Best out of 3, let’s go grab two 

[cabowabo 4484]

6 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

terrible sports weekend 

Nah.  Terrible required a loss yesterday.  

[runthebone 7972]

Well, at least we get to play on the road.

[Hornsbay22 467]

Why open the roof?  Why let Maldy play?  Why did I decide to drink crawfrod over love street?   Why did we get headcase valdez?  

 

All the reasons we lost.

[Scraps 13561]

Game 3

#ShadowGate 

[Rockethorn1978 6077]

Are we still doing the whole “why is maldy playing” bit? He’s gonna start more than Diaz like all season and it’s not changing. I don’t get the acting confused and outraged like there was a possibility Diaz would start and dusty will change his mind? 

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

Podcast 30- where we put in perspective just how amazing this Astros post season run has been, talk about Carlos correa and what he meant to the Astros franchise and then talk about some blown strategy by Dusty

Spotify:
https://spotify.link/5jNPvAG0KDb

Amazon:
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8...-tied-1-1?ref=dm_sh_6qJ4VUrSH6MSXE89otvzYv9U8
 

apple:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breathing-orange-fire-a-houston-astros-podcast/id1683955456?i=1000630648920

[VirginiaLonghorn 4771]

10 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

terrible sports weekend 

Not all bad .. the Boyz got hammered.

[Gourmand 7774]

[tx 3 putt 76906]

Hmmm

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

1 hour ago, Gourmand said:

 

She absolutely loves maldonado. I will allow it. 

[UTexasFight 9431]

2 hours ago, Scraps said:

Game 3

#ShadowGate 

As if Gray needed anymore help against us 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Are we still doing the whole “why is maldy playing” bit? He’s gonna start more than Diaz like all season and it’s not changing. I don’t get the acting confused and outraged like there was a possibility Diaz would start and dusty will change his mind? 

Nobody is confused by it, except Dusty.

[Rockethorn1978 6077]

3 minutes ago, slorch said:

Nobody is confused by it, except Dusty.

A lot of bitching like they don’t understand. We should by now. Dusty loves maldy and is gonna start him 90% of our remaining games. 

[HtownHorn 14677]

1 hour ago, Gourmand said:

 

Bring back Oz.

[APMP 688]

Why today, in the middle of an ALDS? Timing feels odd even though they're from the pre-Dana Brown regime so their days were probably numbered anyway...

[UTexasFight 9431]

2 minutes ago, APMP said:

1 hour ago, Gourmand said:

 

Why today, in the middle of an ALDS? Timing feels odd even though they're from the pre-Dana Brown regime so their days were probably numbered anyway...

Can’t read the article.

were they officially let go today? Or today is when chandler first heard about it?

[Js1 85311]

Just now, UTexasFight said:

Can’t read the article.

were they officially let go today? Or today is when chandler first heard about it?

 

[UTexasFight 9431]

7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Yeah that was my guess…9/30 being a big day 

[WBT 20561]

3 hours ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Are we still doing the whole “why is maldy playing” bit? He’s gonna start more than Diaz like all season and it’s not changing. I don’t get the acting confused and outraged like there was a possibility Diaz would start and dusty will change his mind? 

not confused, forever outraged.  Hope this helps.

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

5 minutes ago, WBT said:

not confused, forever outraged.  Hope this helps.

all of this

[Rockethorn1978 6077]

10 minutes ago, WBT said:

not confused, forever outraged.  Hope this helps.

Does Diaz catch Javier?

[APMP 688]

I got a bad feeling we gonna lose a deciding game to the Twins in which Diaz's bat as a pinch hitter (replacing an 0 for the series Maldy) will produce, but too little too late to save our season.

Let's please avoid this fate...

[APMP 688]

Also, did any beat writers ask why Framber's curveball went missing yesterday? Was he concerned he was tipping?

[Pablo 494]

2 hours ago, Gourmand said:

 

Hopefully Dana is being allowed to bring in his people, which would include analytical people and move on from Toothpick after the season.

[tx 3 putt 76906]

2 hours ago, Gourmand said:

 

https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/houston-astros-make-multiple-changes-to-front-office-structure-even-as-team-still-plays-in-mlb-playoffs

 

firkus has been here since 2013, odd move / Dana Brown power play 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

Yankees should hire everyone we let go 

[Js1 85311]

14 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/houston-astros-make-multiple-changes-to-front-office-structure-even-as-team-still-plays-in-mlb-playoffs

 

firkus has been here since 2013, odd move / Dana Brown power play 

Want their own people I guess 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Want their own people I guess 

I’m guessing like everyone here - brown sold crane on his vision for the new astros in 2025, built around Yordan, Javier and Altuve. He got the green light to install his own people to keep this run going 

Edited October 9, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[Js1 85311]

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

I’m guessing like everyone here - brown sold crane on his vision for the new astros in 2025, built around Yordan, Javier and Altuve. He got the green light to install his own people to keep this run going 

As long as that includes a manager Dana gets to pick. 

[tx 3 putt 76906]

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

As long as that includes a manager Dana gets to pick. 

for 2025

2024 this team will be loaded and a WS favorite. we need a players manager in 2024, a clubhouse guy. It’s out last run with this core group. Injuries hit his hard this year and we still won the pennant. If we had Altuve and Yordan all year, we’d be a 100+ win team

Edited October 9, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76906]

We need a manager that can handle having HoF’ers in the clubhouse. That’s a special breed 
 

also, wouldn’t be shocked if JV comes back in 2025. He wants #300

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Does Diaz catch Javier?

Can we put Dusty’s head in a vice until he does?   Might break the vice…

[henrygandorf 29189]

28 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

2024 this team will be loaded and a WS favorite. we need a players manager in 2024, a clubhouse guy. It’s out last run with this core group. Injuries hit his hard this year and we still won the pennant. If we had Altuve and Yordan all year, we’d be a 100+ win team

division.

[tx 3 putt 76906]

Suck it losers 

 

[dr99 560]

1 hour ago, APMP said:

Also, did any beat writers ask why Framber's curveball went missing yesterday? Was he concerned he was tipping?

I saw Correa whispering to the batter in the on deck circle

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

49 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

for 2025

2024 this team will be loaded and a WS favorite. we need a players manager in 2024, a clubhouse guy. It’s out last run with this core group. Injuries hit his hard this year and we still won the pennant. If we had Altuve and Yordan all year, we’d be a 100+ win team

We should probably not fuck up 2024 by having a drooling idiot for a manager so hopefully Dusty is gone. 

Edited October 9, 2023 by Wulaw Horn

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

2 minutes ago, dr99 said:

I saw Correa whispering to the batter in the on deck circle

Apparently he and Bregman are basically as good as there has ever been at picking up pitch tipping outside of all the trash can nonsense. 

[UTexasFight 9431]

17 minutes ago, dr99 said:

I saw Correa whispering to the batter in the on deck circle

Framber has been a headcase for a while now.

teams are definitely pulling shit to get in Framber’s head whether they have something or not (ex: first base coach patting leg before one pitch but not others).

Framber’s biggest problem was no movement on his 2 seamer yesterday. 

[txduck87 985]

Framber has been a headcase for a while now.
teams are definitely pulling shit to get in Framber’s head whether they have something or not (ex: first base coach patting leg before one pitch but not others).
Framber’s biggest problem was no movement on his 2 seamer yesterday. 

Agreed. Framber needs a shrink badly. Needs to learn how to keep his emotions in check as it really hurts us when he “loses it”. needs to grow up quickly.

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, dr99 said:

I saw Correa whispering to the batter in the on deck circle

"Pollo asado after the game is on me..."

3 minutes ago, txduck87 said:

Agreed. Framber needs a shrink badly. Needs to learn how to keep his emotions in check as it really hurts us when he “loses it”. needs to grow up quickly.

He has a fucking shrink behind the plate.  that's the gotdam selling point, ain't it?

[UTexasFight 9431]

4 minutes ago, txduck87 said:

Agreed. Framber needs a shrink badly. Needs to learn how to keep his emotions in check as it really hurts us when he “loses it”. needs to grow up quickly.

He has one.

maybe he needs a new one….or maybe he needs more than one

[TonyTexas 10510]

4 minutes ago, txduck87 said:

Agreed. Framber needs a shrink badly. Needs to learn how to keep his emotions in check as it really hurts us when he “loses it”. needs to grow up quickly.

He works closely with the Astros team psychologist, Andy Nuñez. Maybe Crane needs to fire him too. 
https://abc13.com/sports/breathe-smile-relax-how-framber-valdez-learned-to-dominate-on-/12394658/

[tx 3 putt 76906]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Framber has been a headcase for a while now.

 

we Don’t need to re sign him 

 

[Rockethorn1978 6077]

I hope crane is aggressive this winter after we win our 3rd WS.