2018 Houston Astros Season Thread

[ckhorn 208]

19 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I will repeat myself just because the following is unbelievable:

A loss makes it over a month since our last home win. 

 

 I Agree. Weird shit. Maybe we should stop selling out. voodoo bats. sacrifice nobis. I would try anything right now.

[UTexasFight 9,789]

Can we bring back Giles and stash him back in Fresno.
Or just cut Osuna
Some bad juju going on

[David Dennison 19,441]

19 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Not discounting the absurdity of that, the team hasn’t played 9 of those 31 days.

Oh, I know. And there have been road trips and the AS break, but man, that just sounds awful.

[Mez2 4,041]

I haven't seen a loss in person since May of 2015 . Boys, we're fucked. 

Fortunately, well always have 2017 and our run differential title in 2018. Maybe we can put that on a flag

[ckhorn 208]

20 minutes ago, Smax said:

Tossing BP to the Rockies

Harris has not been good this year.

[Mez2 4,041]

And the A's killed Paxton tonight, btw. 

[David Dennison 19,441]

19 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

I haven't seen a loss in person since May of 2015 . Boys, we're fucked. 

Fortunately, well always have 2017 and our run differential title in 2018. Maybe we can put that on a flag

The way things are going, our 2018 run differential hats are going to wind up in Africa.

[Mez2 4,041]

18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

The way things are going, our 2018 run differential hats are going to wind up in Africa.

One of our posters will probably have one.

[Mez2 4,041]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

I'm not pissed at all. I'm usually sunshine pumping about records and first place around here.

We suck at the moment though.

Welcome to the party, pal

[HtownHorn 15,243]

Even with everyone healthy, this team needed 2 bats.

[UTexasFight 9,789]

Two months ago we tied a franchise record 12 game winning streak

 

Lose tomorrow (assuming no rally tonight) and they’ll be one loss shy of tying the franchise record for consecutive home losses (11. ironically enough set about this same time in the season albeit in the god awful early days of the franchise history. July 23- Aug 17, 1966)

 

[Gut Wagon 8,214]

Complacent. Mentally weak. Waiting for a nonexistent cavalry to arrive. I’m starting to think  our issues boil down to a mix of these more than anything else. 

People will try to focus on the injuries, and I get that. Injuries obviously matter. But cry me a river. Guys get hurt. Next man up. Except we appear to have have very few guys being men right now. Who wants it? I’m not seeing the fire.

Tyler White and Tony Kemp look like our best players. Is this five years ago? Surely not. Look in the mirror, quit feeling sorry for yourselves and start playing like you belong. And care. 

I think Carlos Gomez is an idiot. But I’d rather have someone tearing up the dugout than a bunch of guys just sitting around waiting to lose. Put your big boy britches on and play. 

And you there on the end of the bench. Put down your calculator and motivate the guys you’re paid to manage. I can fill out a card and watch. You need to do more...and you need to do it now. 

There. I feel better. 

[David Dennison 19,441]

We're going to roll into Oakland tied for first, aren't we?

[ckhorn 208]

26 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Oh, I know. And there have been road trips and the AS break, but man, that just sounds awful.

We just need to skip tomorrows game and just head out of town.

That may be the ticket. When we come back home, send the wives and girlfriends out of town. You know, Undefeated.

[David Dennison 19,441]

Man oh man oh man. 

And of course our manager won't be pressed for answers.

[Ldogg53 514]

Hinch and his “nothing is fucked here” attitude is permeating these other guys. There is no energy at all. No give a fuck. Nothing. Just a bunch of “ho hum, we will be Ok”. Quite the opposite of that garbage slogan they took for the season “Never Settle”

[DaysOff 8,157]

This is baseball. We were odds on favs for the NL two weeks ago and now can't beat anyone. But we'll both get right before the end of August. And hopefully meet again in the Classic.

We won't

[Limp Brisket 549]

 One more home game and then we roll out for a rather important (to say the least) nine game road stretch, we'll get healthy and hot and dominate, we'll bring it back to MM and continue the beatings like any of this never happened.  Right?

[UTexasFight 9,789]

And the A's killed Paxton tonight, btw. 

Luhnow’s boy (Lowrie) is single-handedly beating the M’s tonight
Knocked Paxton out with the liner off his elbow
2 innings later takes Court Jester Felix deep for a 2 run homer.

[David Dennison 19,441]

After tomorrow, we don't play a game out of division until September 3. 

The next few weeks will be interesting.

 

[UTexasFight 9,789]

After tomorrow, we don't play a game out of division until September 3. 
The next few weeks will be interesting.
 

At which point only 6 of our final 25 will be against the West which should also be equally entertaining.

Sticking by my prediction we clinch the West with a week to go (at the final home game sept 23).

[Limp Brisket 549]

20 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

After tomorrow, we don't play a game out of division until September 3. 

The next few weeks will be interesting.

 

Even for the casual baseball fan.  It's about to get dirty.

[Honeysucklerose 1,006]

Even for the casual baseball fan.  It's about to get dirty.

I sure did like winning it by 20 games better

[David Dennison 19,441]

42 games is a lot, but man, this is an awful feeling.

Please get me a get out of town win tomorrow.

[Ldogg53 514]

I renewed my season tickets this week. Fully expecting that this post season will suck and maybe we get it together next year.

That’s a shitty feeling spending so much $$.

[David Dennison 19,441]

18 minutes ago, Ldogg53 said:

I renewed my season tickets this week. Fully expecting that this post season will suck and maybe we get it together next year.

That’s a shitty feeling spending so much $$.

The good news it we'll be one of the favorites to win the WS next year. Again.

[Mez2 4,041]

People who can go fuck themselves:

Astros offense. 

[Ldogg53 514]

People who can go fuck themselves:
Astros offense. 

Valid. Very valid.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,407]

I hate this fucking team.

[Mez2 4,041]

Correa is still hurt but whatever, we don't have Giovanni Mier still in our minor leagues. Yuli's hand is affecting his power, but he's better than AJ Reed.  Tony Kemp is terrible in the outfield, Kyle Tucker is too passive at the plate, seriously, swing a fucking bat. Martin Maldonado has never met a chance to boot into a double play he didn't like, marwin will hit the shit outta fastballs, sometimes, when he's not busy swinging at the in the dirt, or blaming the umpire. Gerrit Cole loves to look dominant until the fourth inning until he walks the first two hitters. Bregs bat is too slow the second half of the year, gattis can't afford batting gloves, lance is too busy playing fortnite, reddick is grieving over the iron sheik's death, Altuve is dead

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb"

[macz 1]

1 hour ago, ckhorn said:

the pets heads are falling off.

Lol...reminds me of Jim Carey

[macz 1]

Altuve has been with this team a long time...when he is not playing it changes the team chemistry. Gove this new group time to gel, and hopefully when they get on a run, either Altuve will be back or we acquired Josh Donaldson or some other big bat to pick us up a bit.

[macz 1]

21 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

Correa is still hurt but whatever, we don't have Giovanni Mier still in our minor leagues. Yuli's hand is affecting his power, but he's better than AJ Reed.  Tony Kemp is terrible in the outfield, Kyle Tucker is too passive at the plate, seriously, swing a fucking bat. Martin Maldonado has never met a chance to boot into a double play he didn't like, marwin will hit the shit outta fastballs, sometimes, when he's not busy swinging at the in the dirt, or blaming the umpire. Gerrit Cole loves to look dominant until the fourth inning until he walks the first two hitters. Bregs bat is too slow the second half of the year, gattis can't afford batting gloves, lance is too busy playing fortnite, reddick is grieving over the iron sheik's death, Altuve is dead

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb"

I agree...yuli’s hand is still an issue. You know it hurts like hell to swing a bat...well let’s stay positive. His help in the playoffs will be huge with or without his hand being hurt.

[Gut Wagon 8,214]

28 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

Correa is still hurt but whatever, we don't have Giovanni Mier still in our minor leagues. Yuli's hand is affecting his power, but he's better than AJ Reed.  Tony Kemp is terrible in the outfield, Kyle Tucker is too passive at the plate, seriously, swing a fucking bat. Martin Maldonado has never met a chance to boot into a double play he didn't like, marwin will hit the shit outta fastballs, sometimes, when he's not busy swinging at the in the dirt, or blaming the umpire. Gerrit Cole loves to look dominant until the fourth inning until he walks the first two hitters. Bregs bat is too slow the second half of the year, gattis can't afford batting gloves, lance is too busy playing fortnite, reddick is grieving over the iron sheik's death, Altuve is dead

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb"

Pretty close to an actual analysis. 

On a related note, wonder how sales of Astroball are going this week? 

[UTexasFight 9,789]

We’ve just good ol fashioned been getting beat lately, but I don’t want to imagine this thread if the Astros had done what the Dodgers have done the last four days.

[UTexasFight 9,789]

Come across this from this same date last year

Anyone have something similar for this year?

 

 

[Rimbo 26,854]

losing still sucks

[Simon Honeybone 113]

219/.298/.377 in the second half

That is a lot of cocks to suck to have a slash line that awful.

[APMP 688]

Has Lil Shep been to any home games recently and gotten Julia time? We need all of the lucky charms firing right now.

 

 

[Jshep34 2,425]

July 29 when he was on field with Tyler White. 

Its crazy the funk they are in. Some previous post about hinch no problems here mind set seems to be part of it. Been watching them in bp and during game it doesnt seem there is a look of giving a crap.  Other issue is lot of key guys have regressed to what type of players they truly are( reddick, gattis, marwin, and some bullpen guys) . 

[Rockethorn1978 6,203]

Chances of repeating is so low I wasn’t expecting it, then we started off looking unbeatable until now. Injuries suck because had we not had any at all we wouldn’t be in this position.

Gotta figure a way to hold on and hope we get healthy in time.

still think we make the playoff at the least as the wild card but that would blow ass.

[HoustonFrog 368]

It's really pretty simple, basically every single hitter has regressed. I would argue that Correa, Springer and Gurriel have regressed below how they should be performing. Marwin, Reddick and Gattis have just regressed back to what we should expect from them. Altuve and Bregman are more or less holding the line, although Bregman is terrible right now. After that we have a bunch of plug and play guys who vary in their degree of suck. Tyler White is the only guy who looks like a major league hitter at the moment. 

[David Dennison 19,441]

For me, Correa's season is the most disappointing. I expected much more from him this year.

Still, he's young and ours for three more seasons at least. Unless, of course, the bottom falls out and we trade him.

[mbtex 684]

Still believe Beltran's presence on the bench is missed.

[David Dennison 19,441]

19 minutes ago, mbtex said:

Still believe Beltran's presence on the bench is missed.

Last year, I see your point, but how would Adrian Beltre's presence help a team full of veterans who are coming of a world championship?

[mbtex 684]

Adrian Beltre plays for the Rangers so He would be of no help. Unless we trade for him.

 

Beltran was like another Coach on the bench and they all seemed to seek him for advice.

 

 

Edited August 15, 2018 by mbtex

[David Dennison 19,441]

30 minutes ago, mbtex said:

Adrian Beltre plays for the Rangers so He would be of no help. Unless we trade for him.

 

Beltran was like another Coach on the bench and they all seemed to seek him for advice.

 

 

HA. Oops. My bad.

But still, I don't think this team needs that this year like we did last year.

 

[Smax 3,800]

4 hours ago, APMP said:

Has Lil Shep been to any home games recently and gotten Julia time? We need all of the lucky charms firing right now.

 

 

 

Shes been on vacation, we haven't won since she left,  no more vacations for Julia

[Gut Wagon 8,214]

49 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Last year, I see your point, but how would Adrian Beltre's presence help a team full of veterans who are coming of a world championship?

Aside from the fact we can't score runs, and he's a proven vet who can still swing the bat, not much.

[Ldogg53 514]

Yeah I’d like to Hinch at least seem like he’s trying. We get it, injuries suck and have a huge impact. On the other hand I’d like him to find some way to get them to manufacture runs. Play some small ball. Tinker with the lineup to get speed on the bases and try to screw up the defense. Something.