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  1. 25 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

    We absolutely feast (and artificially inflate our offensive stats) on bad pitching. We struggle mightily against the kinds of pitchers we'll face when it matters. Now, you can say that's true of a lot of other teams as well, and you'd probably be right. But we seem to take it to extremes. Averaging 5 runs a game sounds good until you realize we've been interspersing scoring 8 or 10 with scoring 1 or 0. Common sense says that if most of our guys are hitting to their ability level, we should be able to smooth out the bumps quite a bit.

    So since I've been pounding on the 0/1 stat so far this season I'll keep it up.  Just did a little digging and offer the following as information only.  I'm not projecting anything further for all you guys who want to say that any negative view is unwarranted.  Facts are facts and it does indeed seem we are all feast or famine this season.  I don't pretend to know the how or why, but the numbers are mostly showing that.

    To date we now have 9 games where we've scored 1 or 0 runs.  We are 1-8 in those games.

     

    2015:  9th game of 0/1 runs happened on May 12th.  Game 33 of the season.  Team Record 20-13 for a .606 win %.

    2016:  9th game of 0/1 runs happened on May 21st.  Game 44 of the season.  Team Record 17-27 for a .386 win %.

    2017:  9th game of 0/1 runs happened on July 19th.  Game 95 of the season.  Team Record 63-32 for a .663 win %.

    2018:  9th game of 0/1 runs happened on May 1st.  Game 30 of the season.  Team Record 20-11 for a .645 win %.

     

    I think the reality is that last season was an anomaly.  This season is the worst of the bunch, but not all that far out from 2015/2016.  Last season was just remarkable it would appear, and being the most recent in memory it will affect our current view.  Still, we have 3-4 games this season that fall into this category that were either winnable, or should have been won.  If we flip just 2 of those games to the win column we're 22-9 with a .706% win which would be amazing.

  2. 5 minutes ago, mbtex said:

    Also has to do with Houston sports mentality we have been crushed so many times it's hard to stay confident.

    Very true.  The goal should be to have the best record to get home field throughout.  But that might not happen.  We really need it for the 1st round though and then after that I'm not worried.  With this pitching staff we will have a chance to beat everyone in the playoffs.  I mean shit, as it stands we'd be throwing out Verlander, Cole and Morton to start off every series.  That is salty as fuck. 

  3. 11 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    I get all the criticisms and love that we have expectations and legitimate conversations about how to be even better, but my god, reading comments from our fan base you’d think the team is 11-20 instead of 20-11... the exact same record as last year after 31 games.

    I think it gets magnified because the pitching has been so stellar.  Sure we have the same record.  However, it should be better based simply on a couple of games that we lost like last night when you waste such a great outing.  If you lose last night 4-3 it would suck of course, but it wouldn't have the same sting as looking totally inept at the plate again. 

    It's an interesting dynamic this season thus far.  It seems as that almost any criticism of the team is seen as unnecessary bashing and panic with an unrealistic view of where we are as a team.  Flipside, those pushing that narrative are seen as over the top sunshine pumpers with their head buried in the sand assuming that all will simply work out again like last year. 

  4. 5 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Clanton sucks.  All of these hacks acted like baseball didn't exist until last year.

    That’s not completely true.  The run in 2015 got people talking about it again.   The reality is they need to talk about what people want to hear. So the bigger picture is that people in Houston didn’t give a shit to talk about the Astros until last year.  

  5. 2 hours ago, Mez2 said:

    i keep hearing about this - what did i miss with that? i actually can't stand AC. 

    She tweeted something about Harden traveling. He responded.  She basically calls him a local radio hack.  Then he puts her shit on blast as she tweets about #metoo shit in sports media and how men have no clue.  She apparently had auctioned herself on eBay years ago to get a ticket to the Super Bowl to see the Bears. Sexy pics and all.  It was that little stunt that led to her getting attention and ultimately getting into the business she’s in. So he attacks her for being hypocritical and the backlash against him was quick. 

    Still don’t know how that dude landed Theresa from 94.5.  

  6. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    I'm all outta rep TexasEd.  That's so cool!

    BTW Ldogg, your pics aren't showing up for me. 

    Fucking imgur.  I have no idea how to post them then.  

  7. 2 hours ago, Scraps said:

    Ummm it is easy to interfere in left field.  Reach out into field of play.  You can be 1st row Crawford box and interfere with the ball. 

    The ball hit Sunday was definitely interfered with. 

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    What annoys me is that there is a real simple solution to this.  Just rip out the row of seats and put a barricade there.  Keep like a 2’ buffer zone between the top of the fence and any fan and you can eliminate this. Otherwise it’s human nature to try to catch that ball and not so easy to be sure of if you are or aren’t interfering.  

  8. I wonder if some of it had to do with his beef with that ESPN chick.  It wasn’t a good look for him at all.  Or maybe he got a better job? 

    I don’t mind the station.  Innes is horrible but Koch and Kalu are good. And Matt Thomas is Ok.   Sean Jones is terrible though.  

  9. 2 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    How many fans were killed by 300 mph Stanton missles into the boxes tonight? Just checking. 

    Apparently none. However, up in section 325 we could certainly feel the breeze from his swings and misses. 

  10. On 4/26/2018 at 10:15 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Thought I would start this thread back up on the new site, and add Heights to the title since the boundaries, news or issues are blurred across the Greater Heights area.

    Has anyone else noticed a ridiculous amount of traffic increases over the past few months in Central Houston or is it just me?  My commute is basically Shepherd Drive (or any of the North-South streets) and the bottlenecks at every major intersection and buffalo bayou is out of control.   What's really odd is some of the East-West streets are empty.  This morning I turned onto Westheimer from Commonwealth (Waugh) and Westheimer barely had any cars in sight.  How can Commonwealth have 25 cars backed up a light but no one on Westheimer.  Strange.   

     

    I think your issue with the N-S traffic is that they've just started construction on the west loop.  So people are starting to avoid that clusterfuck and choosing other N-S routes. 

    As for the feeder on 610N by us, they did the north side pretty quick, so I don't think that will be much of a long term disruption.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Nonbryan said:

    Special teams is 1/3rd of the game, right?

    Yep.  And I look at it like this.  I’d ask a GM if they’d want a player that can get you an extra 30-40 yards of field position in every game.  And then where in the draft they think they’d select that player. 

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