Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread

[Slacks 6819]

8 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

Well gents, looks like I need to take more trips to Europe. I was gone 8 days and no losses. I’ll send y’all my Venmo to help fund the campaign. 

they have flights tonight.

[tx 3 putt 76874]

Damn, hate to see this ….

 

 

[Planet Houston 4930]

22 minutes ago, Slacks said:

they have flights tonight.

I know, I just got off mine and I’m sitting at EWR waiting to get back to Houston. Change my mind, SurlyStros. 

[n64ra 1081]

38 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

Well gents, looks like I need to take more trips to Europe. I was gone 8 days and no losses. I’ll send y’all my Venmo to help fund the campaign. 

Get the hell out of North America and back to Europe! I just booked your flight from Newark to Moscow. I listed your emergency contact as Brittney Griner so you're all set.

[Slacks 6819]

25 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I know, I just got off mine and I’m sitting at EWR waiting to get back to Houston. Change my mind, SurlyStros. 

Look at it like this... EWR is closer to Europe than Houston is. Save yourself a few hours... hit the Polaris lounge until the 10p flight to wherever, then claim your World Series ring.

[runthebone 7967]

1 hour ago, n64ra said:

Get the hell out of North America and back to Europe! I just booked your flight from Newark to Moscow. I listed your emergency contact as Brittney Griner so you're all set.

Make sure you put his occupation as "journalist"

 

We'll never lose again

[tx 3 putt 76874]

Half way done !

Edited June 28 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76874]

What’s your mid season grade ?

 

C -

this team was horrible in April. Pitching and hitting wasn’t there. Players weren’t ready. That falls on the veteran locker room, then on the coaching staff. Substantial injuries, thankfully some young arms stepping up. This whole deal is being held together by a rag tag rotation. If one arm goes down and it’s over. Cutting Abreu was a huge plus. I don’t fault espada or brown for playing him, they had to keep him out there to expose the fraud 

let’s go win the AL West 

[tx 3 putt 76874]

🥺🥺🥺🥺

 

[Pablo 494]

Mid Season Grade: D

This team was so bad, I dropped Fubo and began listening on iHeart Radio and I haven't missed too much. This was a lot for me as I would watch them every night for the last few seasons.

Pitching and RISP horrific early on and have finally come around a bit. We'll see what happens tomorrow when we take on the flaming hot Grimace's.

Not very hopeful for this season with our lack of top end pitching. But hey, lets win the AL West and see what happens!

[tx 3 putt 76874]

AL West sucks, that’s our biggest ray of hope for this season 

[HtownHorn 14671]

11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

AL West sucks, that’s our biggest ray of hope for this season 

Yep. We play in the East or Central, we are still 10+ games behind and in 4th place.

[Pimphand 5734]

47 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Yep. We play in the East or Central, we are still 10+ games behind and in 4th place.

and 0% chance at wild card

[WBT 20561]

6 hours ago, Pimphand said:

and 0% chance at wild card

We're a game closer to the last WC than we are to the M's

[Snake Diggity 4620]

8 hours ago, Pablo said:

Mid Season Grade: D

This team was so bad, I dropped Fubo and began listening on iHeart Radio and I haven't missed too much. This was a lot for me as I would watch them every night for the last few seasons.

Pitching and RISP horrific early on and have finally come around a bit. We'll see what happens tomorrow when we take on the flaming hot Grimace's.

Not very hopeful for this season with our lack of top end pitching. But hey, let’s win the AL West and see what happens!

The Astros have 3 dudes who’ve been among the 20-30 best SP in the league over the last month plus another dude who tossed 7 scoreless his last time out.  Arrighetti hasn’t shown the consistency but Blanco, Framber, and Brown certainly look like “top end pitching” over the last 4-6 weeks.

[Scraps 13561]

FYI tonights game is Apple TV

[UTexasFight 9429]

And before everyone bitches

apple.co/mlbgift

[Ojo Rojo 1957]

Considering the adversity the team has faced because of injuries, I'd say we're doing pretty damned good.  To be at .500 right now is fortunate.

[runthebone 7967]

Injuries are starting to affect other teams also.  Need to get Tucker back, hope Chazzz is healthy and back.  With a starter, reliever (one of whom is above average), and average 1B, we will fuck again in the playoffs.

[Hornsbay22 467]

Can we bring Shay Whitcomb up to play 1B yet?   Maybe he is an answer to so we can save some prospects.

[UTexasFight 9429]

8 minutes ago, Hornsbay22 said:

Can we bring Shay Whitcomb up to play 1B yet?   Maybe he is an answer to so we can save some prospects.

This needs to happen asap. Don’t know what else he needs to do to get a shot.

[Scraps 13561]

Dubon/Cabbage at 1B only until we trade for Lou Gehrig.

Singleton needs to just follow God's Plan and chew tobacky on the bench

[HtownHorn 14671]

21 minutes ago, Hornsbay22 said:

Can we bring Shay Whitcomb up to play 1B yet?   Maybe he is an answer to so we can save some prospects.

Has never played 1B at the college level or higher. Wagner would have a better shot.

[Huckleberry 32850]

Despite Ron Washington's claim in Moneyball, it's not that hard to play a serviceable 1B for a major league baseball player. 

[runthebone 7967]

Singleton is -3 to -8 runs on defense, so I'm pretty sure an average high school player can field the position at that level

[Pimphand 5734]

7 hours ago, WBT said:

We're a game closer to the last WC than we are to the M's

That's the joke

[Hornsbay22 467]

2 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Despite Ron Washington's claim in Moneyball, it's not that hard to play a serviceable 1B for a major league baseball player. 

If you can play short, you bet your ass you can play 1B.   Probably better than most every 1Bs.   No way in hell Shay Whitcomb can't play a better 1B than fat ass singleTON

Edited June 28 by Hornsbay22
humor

[Scraps 13561]

Big news lol

[UTexasFight 9429]

37 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Big news lol
 

[UTPhil2006 3806]

looking forward to seeing our new 1b and CF

[texashorne 1177]

7 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

looking forward to seeing our new 1b and CF

Meyers with an M.... M as in in Mancy

[Pimphand 5734]

Dubon at 1st is something I can get behind

[Honeysucklerose 987]

Dubon at 1st is something I can get behind

Same height as bagwell. Let’s go homie

[runthebone 7967]

1 hour ago, texashorne said:

Meyers with an M.... M as in in Mancy

The tactlneck

[Dondrysdale1 363]

2 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:

looking forward to seeing our new 1b and CF

Marcel?

[UTPhil2006 3806]

7 minutes ago, Dondrysdale1 said:

Marcel?

Neyers?

[billfromlaketravis 11448]

Y’all keep talking shit on AppleTV. I’ll gladly watch games in actual 4k with the volume off. 

Edited June 28 by billfromlaketravis

[WBT 20561]

f the mets

[David Dennison 18851]

LOL

[billfromlaketravis 11448]

There goes that (little) man!

[WBT 20561]

Tuve!!

[Macklemore 2876]

Fuck yes, that’s how you start a game 

[Scraps 13561]

1 pitch 1 dong

[TonyTexas 10508]

I love that shit!

[Macklemore 2876]

2 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Y’all keep talking shit on AppleTV. I’ll gladly watch games in actual 4k with the volume off. 

Remember you can put on the 790 audio as an alternative audio stream.

[WBT 20561]

Hit 100 in game 81

[Snake Diggity 4620]

I don’t know if Altuve will end up with the pure numbers to make the hall of fame, but in terms of how fun a player is to watch, he’s a first ballot guy.

[UTexasFight 9429]

7 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Y’all keep talking shit on AppleTV. I’ll gladly watch games in actual 4k with the volume off. 

You can toggle to the radio broadcast

[Scraps 13561]

Y’all keep talking shit on AppleTV. I’ll gladly watch games in actual 4k with the volume off. 

Yep AppleTV shit is very good when you flip to Ford and Sparks as mentioned

[Scraps 13561]

Wtf kind of strike call was that jfc