2019 Houston Astros Thread

[elfenix 34331]

astros win!

[Guadaloopy 11011]

What a gift.  

[DoobieWah 1454]

Whew!

[Lat22 4015]

I can’t believe he swung at that.

[kevwun 15841]

Wow, throwing strikes really does work.

[Dennis Taylor 18851]

Good lord what a fucked up game

[runthebone 8027]

Woooo

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

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

[tx 3 putt 77287]

That was ball 4 lulz 

[Scraps 13570]

Thank god the porn star popped out

[WBT 20650]

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

[Horn80 6131]

1 hour ago, Horn80 said:

Pitching shit in the bed.  

That game wore me out.  Astros!

[henrygandorf 29194]

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 4781]

Thankfully, Seattle lost before Houston did. 

[Horn80 6131]

Bring on the Orioles.

[TonyTexas 10521]

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 6131]

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 8027]

Good thing it was a noon start 

[tx 3 putt 77287]

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 6315]

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 77287]

Likely a one year deal, per reports 

Edited June 7, 2019 by tx 3 putt

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

 

[Jshep34 2320]

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 29194]

7 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

 

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

[Fat Bastard 601]

Gonorrhea?

[Scraps 13570]

His dick after seeing his wifes instagram pics?

[tx 3 putt 77287]

 

[UTexasFight 9520]

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 601]

How long is Diaz out for?

Edited June 7, 2019 by Fat Bastard

[TonyTexas 10521]

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

[henrygandorf 29194]

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 77287]

Damn, Altuve had been out since May 10 

[henrygandorf 29194]

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 4025]

#HTownPride 

I think. 

[TexArcher 38002]

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

[Mez2 4025]

2 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

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

About 77 million dollars light 

[David Dennison 18944]

Dallas Keuchel should fire Scott Boras.

[tx 3 putt 77287]

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 18944]

He made $13.2 million last year.

LOL

[WBT 20650]

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 8027]

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

[UTexasFight 9520]

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 6677]

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 26038]

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 3809]

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.