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If only there was a place on this roster for Vic to start more I bet he could really help this team... I guess we will never know. 

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    Pretty perfect game to take a three year old to. Was over before he got too bored and got to see a couple homers. Thanks @UTPhil2006 for the suggestion about the first game certificate, had plenty of

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    I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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I had no idea Caratini was a Mexican unti I saw him with an interpreter.

3 in a row boys

Just now, Guadaloopy said:

Exorcised some demons tonight.  

I dunno padre... I think quite a few demons are still there. Load up on some more holy water. 

Just now, cabowabo said:

I had no idea Caratini was a Mexican unti I saw him with an interpreter.

Caratini is an American citizen.

(Puerto Rican)

1 minute ago, YChang said:

I dunno padre... I think quite a few demons are still there. Load up on some more holy water. 

A one run win.  An extra inning win.  First of the season for both.  

1 minute ago, cabowabo said:

I had no idea Caratini was a Mexican unti I saw him with an interpreter.

he's Puerto Rican, but as we know : All the Mexican nations are the same. 

Wasn’t Caratini Yu Darvish’s personal catcher for a while?

28 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

We going to give up 2 and score 1 or give up 1 and score 0? 

Maybe they'll give up 2 and score 1

Wow wow wow Astros and Horns baseball trying to rope me back in at the same time.   

Hope they zoom in more on Loperfido GF.

We haven't lost a game in 5 days!
#IWasThere
Just now, tx 3 putt said:

Ill guess hader asked for the ball in the 10th 

 

Did Chandler ask Espada why he didn't put the dude on first with a 2-0 count?

If you squint, you can kind of see a real well functioning team again!!

19 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

9 more in a row and we’re back to .500!!

Back over .333 though!

Pulse check….everyone still alive in here??? Some cardiac baseball for ya there.

6 minutes ago, Shot Caller said:

Pulse check….everyone still alive in here??? Some cardiac baseball for ya there.


maybe this will jump start this team / clubhouse 

Wait, did something happen tonight?

😊

9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Damn 

 

70 grade raw power, 70 grade arm, 65 grade speed, 60 grade glove.  Walks enough.  All about contact profile to determine whether he’s a superstar, a solid regular, a bench player, or a AAAA guy.

Edited by Snake Diggity

Been dreading and basically indifferent about 7:05 the last few weeks. But I feel the thrill coming back. Not because Loperfido is any kind of savior because he isn’t. But finally making some moves to be proactive and try to get things going is  like a fresh start. I think, and hope, the time of sitting back and hoping and wishing things will fix themselves is over. Plenty of talent still here. But every team needs to be proactive at times to keep winning. We need to play the rest of the year 30 games over .500. Let’s go. #Relentless

I'll take me some more Caratini and Loperfido!

58 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Been dreading and basically indifferent about 7:05 the last few weeks. But I feel the thrill coming back. Not because Loperfido is any kind of savior because he isn’t. But finally making some moves to be proactive and try to get things going is  like a fresh start. I think, and hope, the time of sitting back and hoping and wishing things will fix themselves is over. Plenty of talent still here. But every team needs to be proactive at times to keep winning. We need to play the rest of the year 30 games over .500. Let’s go. #Relentless

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May schedule talk:

not to sound too hyperbolic about a stretch of games the first week in May, but the stretch between now and next Thursday is pretty important. 
2 more with the Guardians 

3 with Seattle

3 at Yankees

Winning each of those series means a 5-3 start to the month and 7 below .500.

Then the schedule lightens up a bit with Detroit, before returning home for our longest homestand of the year with Oakland, Milwaukee, and LA Angels. 
Finish the month with 7 games at Oakland and Seattle (before opening a series on 5/31 back at home against Minnesota).


Over the past few years, Seattle feels like the tortoise in the tortoise and the hare —slowly but consistently getting better—and I think we’re going to have some knock down, drag outs with them all year. Would be huge to jump out to 4-3 or 5-2 on them this month.

But overall, the best records in the AL in April were 19-10. With our schedule in May, pitching staff coming back together, rotten luck we’ve endured for most of April, and shedding Abreu and whatever happened to him there is no reason in my mind that we can’t replicate that and flip our 4/30 10-19 record to match that 19-10 and be back to .500 by June 1

CLE 1-1

SEA 4-3

NYY 2-1

DET 2-1

OAK 5-2

MIL 1-2

LAA 3-0

MIN 1-0

= 19-10


3 game win streak kool-aid tastes so good. 

Edited by UTexasFight

Did Montero revert back to being super sucky? Or just normal level of suckage? The back of his card says meh…

9 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

May schedule talk:

not to sound too hyperbolic about a stretch of games the first week in May, but the stretch between now and next Thursday is pretty important. 
2 more with the Guardians 

3 with Seattle

3 at Yankees

Winning each of those series means a 5-3 start to the month and 7 below .500.

Then the schedule lightens up a bit with Detroit, before returning home for our longest homestand of the year with Oakland, Milwaukee, and LA Angels. 
Finish the month with 7 games at Oakland and Seattle (before opening a series on 5/31 back at home against Minnesota).


Over the past few years, Seattle feels like the tortoise in the tortoise and the hare —slowly but consistently getting better—and I think we’re going to have some knock down, drag outs with them all year. Would be huge to jump out to 4-3 or 5-2 on them this month.

But overall, the best records in the AL in April were 19-10. With our schedule in May, pitching staff coming back together, rotten luck we’ve endured for most of April, and shedding Abreu and whatever happened to him there is no reason in my mind that we can’t replicate that and flip our 4/30 10-19 record to match that 19-10 and be back to .500 by June 1

CLE 1-1

SEA 4-3

NYY 2-1

DET 2-1

OAK 5-2

MIL 1-2

LAA 3-0

MIN 1-0

= 19-10


3 game win streak kool-aid tastes so good. 

29-0.. 1916 Giants be damned 

Abreu might come back with an extension 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

 

 

Bagwell must be really desperate to save face on this one.

I think we all hope he comes back and destroys the ball and leads the charge. But I also think we all know he won’t. I’d take him coming back and hitting .230 at the least. 

12 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

Exorcised some demons tonight.  

No shit. I believe we were 1-11 our last 12 games that have gone to extras, dating back to last season.

Moreover, I believe that may have been our first big clutch hit of the year. Was talking with my Astros group chat and nobody could recall another time this season we had a go-ahead HR late in a game or anything similar. Definitely our only walk-off. 

 I was reading about Loperfido some more and his problematic K rate. One thing I read is not so much that he whiffs a bunch, but apparently he takes a ton of strikes looking. I know at least one of his K's last night was staring at Strike 3. Hopefully being a little more aggressive at the plate is something that can be taught.

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