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Gourmand

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  1. I would argue that most of ours can since the Astros have been using tandem starts in the minors for a while now and these guys all developed in that environment. That's not to say that I'm cool with them to entering the game in the middle of an inning and throwing out of the stretch, but I like the idea of being able to stack our arms up against lineups to start innings and prevent them from seeing the same pitcher multiple times in the same game. More arms is better than fewer in a series where we could see a long extra-inning game or two. And it plays into this team's strength.
  2. I don't care who is starting and who is in the bullpen. The strength of this team is its pitching and I prefer to maximize the number of out-getting arms than a rookie third catcher/OF with less than 5 MLB at bats.
  3. With the potential of true extra innings, there is far more reason for 13 pitchers than 14 position players imo.
  4. Is the ghost runner in play during the playoffs this year?
  5. It's likely but it's also just as likely that the Astros analytics braintrust will find a way to minimize the implied advantage to opposing hitters. Haha Clay Holmes strikes again! Suck it Helobius
  6. Magic number AL top seed magic number is 6. Can Pittsburgh make it 5?
  7. Basically they're the AL East Mariners
  8. Yeah he deserves it for his performance this year but I value the playoff experience Urquidy and Garcia bring to the table.
  9. Predictions for divisional playoff roster? I'm assuming Maton is the guy who gets left off the roster and Brown makes it as a reliever. On the offensive side, at the beginning of the season who'da thunk Jake Meyers would be stuck in AAA and lose a playoff roster spot to the unheralded minor leaguer David Hensley?
  10. I'm an old man now who grew up on Htown pro sports. I fell in love with the Luv Ya Blue Oilers as a very young kid. Earl was my first hero and I will always love him for making me a Houston sports fan and that fandom coincided with those Astros and Rockets playoff teams in 1980/81. I remember watching Cheo, Terry Puhl, Cedeno, Art Howe, Denny Walling, Craig Reynolds, Joe Sambito, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Nolan (duh), Joe Niekro, etc and then watching the Calvin Murphy/Moses Malone/Robert Reid Rockets teams later followed by the Twin Towers and then those Clutch City Rockets teams that delivered the Greatest Moment in Houston Sports Ever when they beat the Knicks in gm 7. This man pictured above has surpassed Hakeem as the most iconic face on Houston Sports Mt Rushmore. We are truly blessed as fans with what the Astros have given us the last seven years and this Astros dynasty (and it is a dynasty goddamnit) does not exist without Jose Altuve. Do I literally love him? You're goddamn right I do.
  11. This fucking guy needs his ass kicked
  12. Posse East or Crown and Anchor? I'm down for either.
  13. EXACTLY. Fuck Chandler Rome, he is such a clout-chasing twatweasel. He repeatedly goes out of his way to poke Dusty and the Astros front office with his all-too-obvious sarcastic, cowardly tweets. He is very much following the Evan Drellich path to relevancy in the baseball writers circle jerk.
  14. Motherfucking fuck, why didn't they just shut Yordan down two months ago and have the surgery then? Pretty obvious he's headed that route in the off-season.
  15. Yeah but his outing before that one was even worse
  16. Damn I missed getting in on this, shit. I need a little advice from you smarter bettor types than I. I'm in a survivor league with about 160 entries and each entry can use a BYE once. I have three entries still alive (thank god New Orleans pulled that win out in ATL) and my last entry is DEN tonight at Seattle. 59 entries were eliminated yesterday and the standings show another 59 as "IN", meaning they all either have Denver, Seattle, or a bye pick. I'm assuming a substantial portion of those are byes with some probably taking Denver. Should I play it safe and keep all my entries alive by using a bye on tonight's game or should I be more aggressive and take Denver to keep the future value of that bye and thereby gain an edge on the rest of the field?
  17. Not sure if it was mentioned already but Whitley started vs RR at Dell Diamond Sat night and had this interesting pitching line: 4.1 IP 3 H 2 R 2 ER 7 BB 4 K Sugar Land won 6-3 with a homer from Aledmys Diaz.
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