2019 Houston Astros Thread

[elfenix 34167]

astros win!

[Guadaloopy 10903]

What a gift.  

[DoobieWah 1410]

Whew!

[Lat22 3990]

I can’t believe he swung at that.

[kevwun 15595]

Wow, throwing strikes really does work.

[Dennis Taylor 18679]

Good lord what a fucked up game

[runthebone 7929]

Woooo

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

Have to give James some credit for getting out of that bases loaded one out situation. 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

That was ball 4 lulz 

[Scraps 13531]

Thank god the porn star popped out

[WBT 20397]

Another series win even if it doesn't feel like it 

[Horn80 6074]

1 hour ago, Horn80 said:

Pitching shit in the bed.  

That game wore me out.  Astros!

[henrygandorf 29174]

holy mother fucking shit.

ok, now that we won, let's start listing the terrible things we did today.

i'll start.

our bullpen had 9 walks.

[VirginiaLonghorn 4750]

Thankfully, Seattle lost before Houston did. 

[Horn80 6074]

Bring on the Orioles.

[TonyTexas 10478]

6-1 road trip with this lineup and shaky bullpen is unreal. Need Cole to pitch a complete game tomorrow.

[Guest]

That one was elusive as fuck.

 

Very pleased that the bullpen went and earned it.

 

shaky, shaky...damn.

 

[Horn80 6074]

5 minutes ago, slorch said:

That one was elusive as fuck.

 

Very pleased that the bullpen went and earned it.

 

shaky, shaky...damn.

 

Astros are tough team.

[runthebone 7929]

Good thing it was a noon start 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Keep racking up W’s !!!!

one hell of a road trip, 6-1. All our players on the DL should get 3 extra days before coming back. Zero reason to rush it 

[Hank Chinaski 6310]

31 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

holy mother fucking shit.

ok, now that we won, let's start listing the terrible things we did today.

i'll start.

our bullpen had 9 walks.

Terrible things we did today? Well, we played Tyler White for 14 innings.

(Let's give the man his due, he reached base 4 times, probably his best offensive game of the season. But holy shit, how, in the year of the HR, did he turn into a slappy singles hitter? Wait, I'll take singles from him at this point.)

Edited June 7, 2019 by Hank Chinaski

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Likely a one year deal, per reports 

Edited June 7, 2019 by tx 3 putt

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

[Jshep34 2303]

Likely a one year deal, per reports 

He rolling the dice again for next year to get that 5 year 100 million contract

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[henrygandorf 29174]

7 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

 

i don't want to speculate wildly, so can somebody else do it?

[Fat Bastard 593]

Gonorrhea?

[Scraps 13531]

His dick after seeing his wifes instagram pics?

[tx 3 putt 76158]

 

[UTexasFight 9369]

Leadoff walk in the 8th and 9th. Two guys standing next to each other watching a ball fall out of the sky.
Not getting your feet set properly on a DP ball.

Mariners are still a MLB team. Little shit matters and this is how slumps start, especially with the AAAA lineup we’ll still be trotting out there a while.

Get your shit together and win this in the 10th.

Here’s a few others things we didn’t do well.

Can’t believe we won that.
Mariners truly are a bad team.
Maybe the worst with the orioles if they didn’t have that good Ichiro voodoo that got them off to a 13-2 start.

I predicted a good game for white but thought it might be the time he finally busted out with some XBHs.
Poor dude is a mess and really has no hope. It’s a shame there is no opportunity for him to go down to Round Rock for a few weeks, play every day and fix his mechanics to find his power again (whatever there is to find). it’s clear he’s not going to find it against MLB pitching.

Well done to cobble that together with a games worth of ABs from Fisher, Straw, White, Marisnick, Kemp and Mayfield...and an infield of Yuli, Mayfield, Kemp and White.

[Fat Bastard 593]

How long is Diaz out for?

Edited June 7, 2019 by Fat Bastard

[TonyTexas 10478]

Dallas gets $13mm from the Braves for the rest of the year.

[henrygandorf 29174]

8 minutes ago, Fat Bastard said:

How long is Diaz out for?

my understanding is that he should be starting a rehab assignment soon, and should be back after that.  if no setbacks, i would guess sometime during the homestand.

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Damn, Altuve had been out since May 10 

[henrygandorf 29174]

i actually just researched all 3 (not correa) on rotoworld and has all 3 on a ~mid-june return date.

june 20th is when our series starts @nyy.  would be really nice to have all of them back for that (or the 3 games before then in cincy for a tuneup)

[maninblack 7974]

25 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Dallas gets $13mm from the Braves for the rest of the year.

[Mez2 4020]

#HTownPride 

I think. 

[TexArcher 37455]

Wonder how DK is gonna feel when we lift that trophy again...

[Mez2 4020]

2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Wonder how DK is gonna feel when we lift that trophy again...

About 77 million dollars light 

[David Dennison 18603]

Dallas Keuchel should fire Scott Boras.

[tx 3 putt 76158]

just another dumb okie, special kind of dumb that walked away from 90mil. best of luck DK, hope ya'll get bounced get bounced in the first round 

[David Dennison 18603]

He made $13.2 million last year.

LOL

[WBT 20397]

18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

He made $13.2 million last year.

LOL

Yeah well, he got to take the first 2 months off this year 

[runthebone 7929]

QO with no state income tax v. $13 with?  I guess he at least can say Boras got less commission.  

[UTexasFight 9369]

No ill will.
Schadenfruede is always fun, but he wasn’t part of our future plans at the pricepoint he was looking for so best of luck to him elsewhere.

Sure, he wasn’t the most endearing Astro at the end of his time here, but dude was one of the lone bright spots during some horrendously lean years and maybe pushed the franchise timeline up a year or so with the season he had leading the staff in 2015. And who knows, maybe his bitchassedness at the 2017 non-waiver trade deadline actually helped Luhnow/Crane pull the trigger for JV a month later (subconsciously if nothing else). That will never be admitted to, but it is fact he stepped up and recruited/lobbied JV to waive his no-trade clause.

Good luck in ATL.

[perfectchaos007 6593]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

He made $13.2 million last year.

LOL

Astros offered him $17.9 million for this year. His ego cost him almost $5 mil. Good luck to him tho

[Rimbo 25752]

7 hours ago, Scraps said:

Sooner has as many homers as fat boy in like 1/6th of the plate appearances now.  Pretty fucking shameful.  

but fewer hits

[UTHornFan014 710]

but fewer hits

What is funny/sad is that Jack's slugging percentage is only 71 points lower than White... And he is batting .074

[UTPhil2006 3790]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

No ill will.
Schadenfruede is always fun, but he wasn’t part of our future plans at the pricepoint he was looking for so best of luck to him elsewhere.

Sure, he wasn’t the most endearing Astro at the end of his time here, but dude was one of the lone bright spots during some horrendously lean years and maybe pushed the franchise timeline up a year or so with the season he had leading the staff in 2015. And who knows, maybe his bitchassedness at the 2017 non-waiver trade deadline actually helped Luhnow/Crane pull the trigger for JV a month later (subconsciously if nothing else). That will never be admitted to, but it is fact he stepped up and recruited/lobbied JV to waive his no-trade clause.

Good luck in ATL.

This is my side. Dude didn’t do us bad by any stretch. He just made a bad bet on himself. 

[rvm96 1643]

Nick Tanielu and Kyle Tucker both hit a pair of homers for RR.