Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread

[Macklemore 2873]

8 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

Now is where you admit you might have been a tad too reactionary about Dana Brown. 

I just want us to win and have the best team on the field. I’m not trying to win the internets here. I will give credit where credit is due. Ronel’s no-hitter last night is a feather in Dana’s cap. I just hope we get the reinforcements to our pitching staff that Dana is banking on in terms of a return to form for Javier and Framber, a return from injury for Garcia and McCullers, and the bullpen gelling with the spare parts in middle relief that’s been assembled. A lot has to go right for that to happen. I hope that it does.

[TexArcher 37997]

7 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Espada is the first manager in MLB history to get his first managerial win via a no-hitter.

This has to be extremely high on the list of things in baseball that will never happen again.

Awesome.

[TejasPedro 1858]

Dana Brown pitched a hell of a game last night. He called a great one too. Hitting two home runs didn’t hurt his batting average either. Dana also caught that line drive in foul territory that almost took that fan out. He fried a hell of a corn dog too. 

[Macklemore 2873]

Been waiting for this all morning.

 

[Longboard Horn 40418]

[Scraps 13570]

That 1st homer Diaz hit was a bomb.  

Pena homering and a no-hitter on the same night is like same odds as winning Powerball I think

[BachelorTrek 3055]

10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

I still think of Julia in her Texas cheerleader outfit. Lulz.

[Scraps 13570]

Calm down Alan Ashby

[UTexasFight 9518]

In the span of 1 year + 8 games, we’ve had the luxury to see 3 no-hitters. Each started by guys currently in the starting rotation.

 

when’s the last time a team has had an active starting rotation with 3 starters with a No-hitter in that short of a timeframe?

guessing never 

[uoftorange 1386]

14 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

In the span of 1 year + 8 games, we’ve had the luxury to see 3 no-hitters. Each started by guys currently in the starting rotation.

 

when’s the last time a team has had an active starting rotation with 3 starters with a No-hitter in that short of a timeframe?

guessing never 

Never from what I can see unless it was before the modern era and I got bored before I found it. https://www.espn.com/mlb/history/nohitters

You could likely get it in a 3 year period a few times

[ChickenSandwich 9845]

1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

Ensalada de Papas

[tx 3 putt 77268]

1 hour ago, TejasPedro said:

Dana Brown pitched a hell of a game last night. He called a great one too. Hitting two home runs didn’t hurt his batting average either. Dana also caught that line drive in foul territory that almost took that fan out. He fried a hell of a corn dog too. 

dana brown served some damn fresh peanuts pre game 

 

[tx 3 putt 77268]

 

[Dnaguy 12023]

11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Can someone post this article ?

 

You can get an offer for an Athletic subscription for $1 a month for 12 months.

The athletic is at least worth that

[UTexasFight 9518]

37 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Calm down Alan Ashby

I thought about him last night looking for the Blue Jays radio call wondering if he still had that job before remembering he was canned a while back 

[Scraps 13570]

We thought about him too cause some dude at the game was wearing his jersey and tried to make matching pants

[TejasPedro 1858]

Blanco needs to open his own car wash.

Blanco Lavado de Autos!

[Huckleberry 33055]

19 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

You can get an offer for an Athletic subscription for $1 a month for 12 months.

The athletic is at least worth that

They signed with Texags and said it was because of their great journalism. They may have severed the relationship (I think they did at least)  but nobody that stupid and/or blatantly greedy will ever get my money if I can get their shit for free. Ever. 

That plus Mandel is annoying. 

[Dnaguy 12023]

25 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

They signed with Texags and said it was because of their great journalism. They may have severed the relationship (I think they did at least)  but nobody that stupid and/or blatantly greedy will ever get my money if I can get their shit for free. Ever. 

That plus Mandel is annoying. 

 You'd hope they would have dropped aggy when they got that NY times $$$.

Mandel is annoying yes.

But they do a decent enough job covering the Astros and it's a lot cheaper than a chronicle subscription 

[uoftorange 1386]

17 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

 You'd hope they would have dropped aggy when they got that NY times $$$.

Mandel is annoying yes.

But they do a decent enough job covering the Astros and it's a lot cheaper than a chronicle subscription 

I think I pay 2.30 a quarter for the chronicle website or something silly like that.  I pay $12 for the Athletic.  Athletic is much more value but constantly pisses me off with who they hire to cover Houston.  

[CycleTex87 2980]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

In the span of 1 year + 8 games, we’ve had the luxury to see 3 no-hitters. Each started by guys currently in the starting rotation.

 

when’s the last time a team has had an active starting rotation with 3 starters with a No-hitter in that short of a timeframe?

guessing never 

Is that good?  That seems good.

[huge 3795]

I still think of Julia in her Texas cheerleader outfit. Lulz.

*pom squad

[Scraps 13570]

Don't think this was posted. Nice piece on mlb network today

[UTexasFight 9518]

5 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Don't think this was posted. Nice piece on mlb network today
 

That’s outstanding.

if he can maintain being a legit 3 pitch pitcher, we might have something. 

[Planet Houston 4930]

4 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

That’s outstanding.

if he can maintain being a legit 3 pitch pitcher, we might have something. 

We do have something, another no-hitter and several new MLB firsts

[UTexasFight 9518]

18 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

We do have something, another no-hitter and several new MLB firsts

Haha

yes but no-hitters are often notoriously flash in the pans (The Rat has two for chrissakes). I’m looking for real stabilization in the back end of the rotation until the calvary arrives and cautiously optimistic we found it. 

Edited April 2 by UTexasFight

[Planet Houston 4930]

Yes, sorry for my pedantic joke. I feel pretty good about his ability to keep it together. The guy is built like a house and if he can keep that fastball 93-95 and locate that changeup on a regular basis, watch out. 

Obviously the league will adjust to his first game throwing changeup on more than a third of his pitches. But if he can continue to locate and “tunnel” as they say these days, no reason to think he will be just a flash in the pan. 

[Beau Vine 54337]

1 hour ago, Scraps said:

Don't think this was posted. Nice piece on mlb network today
 

I have my usual question -- why the fuck is Mark DeRosa carrying around a bat in that segment?

[tx 3 putt 77268]

 

[UTexasFight 9518]

[Mo Horn 8853]

Wait, Diaz can actually bat the day after he got 2 home runs? I didn't think that was allowed. 

[Planet Houston 4930]

Time for Yordan to turn things around. 

[UTexasFight 9518]

45 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

Wait, Diaz can actually bat the day after he got 2 home runs? I didn't think that was allowed. 

Yeah I about lost it when I read from the bottom up and saw Caratini was catching …before realizing diaz was at least dh’ing

[Scraps 13570]

I am more impressed that Framber is having to pitch to BOTH catchers already this season.  

[tx 3 putt 77268]

1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

Wait, Diaz can actually bat the day after he got 2 home runs? I didn't think that was allowed. 

espada talked about this on the radio link above 

[BachelorTrek 3055]

5 hours ago, huge said:

*pom squad

*Lots of people don't know what a "pom squad" is, so I kept it simple.

[tx 3 putt 77268]

France on paternity leave 

[UTexasFight 9518]

Congrats to George for making 10 yrs service time. 

 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4781]

10 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

France on paternity leave 

If it’s a boy, will he be named Kermit?

[tx 3 putt 77268]

3 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Congrats to George for making 10 yrs service time. 

 

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/blue-jays-springer-reflective-as-he-nears-10-year-service-time-milestone/sn-amp/

[UTexasFight 9518]

21 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/blue-jays-springer-reflective-as-he-nears-10-year-service-time-milestone/sn-amp/

Man, the guy is in Toronto for only 3 full seasons and already adding a “u” to words like “honor”?

[UTexasFight 9518]

Goodness Framber’s stuff is dancing tonight 

[Hornsbay22 470]

8 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Goodness Framber’s stuff is dancing tonight 

That two seamer is running running

[Planet Houston 4930]

7 pitches, 4 outs. Let’s change the approach guys. 

[Planet Houston 4930]

Making him work a bit more but of course Abreu whiffs way late on a 93 mph meatball that perfectly caught the middle of the plate. 

Edited April 3 by Planet Houston

[Ichabod 184]

Feeling like both starters go all the way in a 1-0 game

[David Dennison 18941]

Shoulda kept it at 9 runs last night.

[Smax 3800]

hell of a ROI

[Planet Houston 4930]

That’s what you do with middle-middle, Abreu

[UTexasFight 9518]

11 minutes ago, Ichabod said:

Feeling like both starters go all the way in a 1-0 game

Let it be so