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Just now, Scraps said:

Brad peacocks kids name is seriously Cotton Peacock?

Umm ok

Bold naming strategy?

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Brad peacocks kids name is seriously Cotton Peacock?

Umm ok
Ok its Colton. Att fucked it up. Thats a little better
13 minutes ago, Scraps said:
17 minutes ago, Scraps said:
Brad peacocks kids name is seriously Cotton Peacock?

Umm ok

Ok its Colton. Att fucked it up. Thats a little better

I prefer Cotton.

keep racking up W's and a lot of players need to keep upping those hitting numbers 

I watched through seven and later on saw we gave up one.  I said to myself, I bet it was Rondon.  

 

 

Yup. 

On a Sunday night I might bang me some Maze

#HTownPride

58 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

keep racking up W's and a lot of players need to keep upping those hitting numbers 

Wait til we get away from mmp and see our numbers jump

LMJ rockin the Barkley???  LOLz

12 minutes ago, slorch said:

LMJ rockin the Barkley???  LOLz

Did Barkley wear 34 for us or is that Olajuwon?

3 minutes ago, VivaNaranja said:

Did Barkley wear 34 for us or is that Olajuwon?

You're right.  Chuck wore the 4.

I didn't recall Dream ever wearing that horrific abomination of a uniform.

14 minutes ago, slorch said:

You're right.  Chuck wore the 4.

I didn't recall Dream ever wearing that horrific abomination of a uniform.

I think he wore the blue pinstripe one like that. 

Pretty sure Drexler was one of the players that did the unveil of those uniforms.

If Reddick came out in a Luv Ya Woo!!!  Tyler Rose tear away jersey...

 

Welll it would be a lot more kickass than this Sprockets gear.

Did Barkley wear 34 for us or is that Olajuwon?


Seriously? Don’t you blaspheme in here.
3 hours ago, VivaNaranja said:

Did Barkley wear 34 for us or is that Olajuwon?

Wat?

2 hours ago, Player said:

 


Seriously? Don’t you blaspheme in here.

 

It wasn't his original misstatement, but then again, everyone should know the answer. 

Good Lord I grew up in Houston Goddammit.  I know what number 34 means to each of our pro teams. I was trying to politely tell Slorch to check his numbers.

 

(Now THAT'S blasphemy)

2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Someone should be Rocking a Gerald Green jersey

And have a tattoo like this:

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And on the topic of Gerald Green, if he were to get another tattoo - it oughta be this:

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Edited by UDontKnow

Also, a bit late. But I'm posting this as a shout out to H-Town Wiggy. Sorry for your loss.

 

that article likes to use "if" a lot.  

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle 

54 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

Interesting. I think part of what’s going on is that several other guys are down from last year, which puts greater hopes on José to be superhuman. When he then hits a rough stretch (as he has lately), it’s magnified. 

Bryce Harper had a 0-20 stretch last week. And he's bounced back to go .278 / .316 / .556 over the past 4 games. Altuve will be fine.

Somehow I did not realize/remember Gattis tweaked his swing near the end of last year:


Not satisfied with a career OPS around .780, Evan Gattis decided to make a change.

This was last year, after he recovered from the August concussion that cost him three weeks of the season. He was slashing .278/.330/.490 but had only 11 home runs at the time. His swing, he felt, was too steep and not conducive enough to hitting the ball hard and in the air.

An adjustment to rectify it and refine his approach paid off in the postseason, when Gattis had some of the Astros’ most consistent at-bats. His damage consisted of only two doubles and one tone-setting home run off CC Sabathia in Game 7 of the ALCS, but he worked nine walks, half of his regular-season total.

Yet it had played out dreadfully this season up until this weekend, when Gattis’ powerful right-handed bat, at last, began to heat up. The Astros’ primary designated hitter launched home runs in each of the team’s 6-1 wins against the Rangers this weekend, doubling his total from his first 25 starts this season.

Gattis, a career .250/.302/.473 hitter entering Sunday’s game, is still batting only .214/.283/.350 in 113 plate appearances this season. His value to the Astros is tied exclusively to his bat, as he’s fallen out of the catching rotation. This weekend’s series was a start, but they need continued production. He should be in the lineup again Monday against Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney.

“I’m trying to be patient, but at the end of the day you want results,” Gattis said. “This game is built on results, and I want to do better. … Every day I come to work and I just do that. I come to try to get better.”

Gattis was a combined 4-for-9 with a walk in the Astros’ three games against the Rangers. His homers, off Texas starters Doug Fister and Matt Moore, each came on first-pitch fastballs. Sunday’s 400-foot, two-run home run off Moore registered a 107.2 mph exit velocity, Gattis’ best recorded by Statcast this season. It was, he said, his most rewarding swing of the season to date.


Coming into the weekend, it was appropriate to wonder how much longer the Astros could afford to stick with Gattis. Given his track record (112 career OPS+), roughly 100 plate appearances was still too small a sample for a drastic move. But with the red-hot J.D. Davis breathing down his neck in Class AAA, it seemed like Houston’s front office could soon reach a point when the difficult conversations would need to be had.

The Astros owe the 31-year-old Gattis $6.7 million this season, his last before he will become a free agent for the first time. His five-plus years of major league service afford him the right to decline being optioned to the minor leagues.

Year Astros OPS from DH spot (AL rank)
2013 .621 (14th)
2014 .816 (3rd)
2015 .751 (8th)
2016 .686 (15th)
2017 .668 (15th)
2018 .633 (12th)
Gattis has been battling to balance not swinging at balls while also not missing the strikes. His strikeout rate (27.4 percent) has nearly doubled from last season (15.4) despite him actually making contact at a career-high rate (80.7 percent, per Baseball Info Solutions, coming into Sunday’s game.) Before Friday’s series opener, Astros manager A.J. Hinch said he thought Gattis was “missing pitches that he normally hammers.”

“If you’re too careful up at the plate, especially when you’re Evan Gattis, you can get lulled into trying to find the perfect pitch and then you miss a mistake or two. Part of the endearing side of the offensive side of Gattis is sort of the ambush,” Hinch said after Houston’s victory Sunday.

“We saw the down-and-in sinker hit to left (off Fister). We see the ball up tattooed, basically to the train (against Moore). And everything in between, a couple base hits here and there. He’s a threat and the other side knows it, and I like the aggressiveness that he came with in this series and then obviously the results followed.”

Gattis has started poorly in the past but never this terribly. In 2015, his first season with the Astros, he had a .183/.204/.382 line through 137 plate appearances. In 2016, he was .203/.257/.313 through 70 plate appearances. Last season was his lone with Houston in which he started off strong, batting .321/.400/.518 in April.

Despite his brutal start, Gattis committed himself to the swing adjustment he began working with last year. “Right now it’s not working so well, and I’m not going to shitcan it just because,” he said before Saturday’s game. He did alter his routine in batting practice, making a concerted effort to hit balls to right field to hone his timing. Eventually, he believes, it all has to pay off.

“We always say we can score from any part of the order,” Hinch said. “When those guys are swinging the bat at the bottom, we’re tough outs.”

Athletic also has an article on LMJ having similar results so far this year as last year but doing it despite a faster curveball 87 mph vs 85.5 last year (and a full mph faster than Kimbrel)...But less spin (150 rpm). (He clearly hasn’t gotten the foreign substance memo from CFM and Cole)

Also increased usage of the changeup: using it 14% of the time so far this year

If can get consistent with the latter pitch and find the spin again on the curve, look out.

Beautiful night in Anaheim.  Last game I went to in SoCal was WS game 2.  Glad to see Springer back in the lineup tonight.  

Goes without saying but tonight is the biggest game of the season

Score early, score often, leave no doubt. Let's go boys

Evan Gattis is a huge reason why this team is so fucking fun to root for. 

If his story doesn't inspire you, then your wood's all wet. 

We don't need no stinkin battin gloves...but go ahead and hit a homer for Mommy on Mother's Day. 

Fuck yeah. So many Astros find a way to make it happen. 

On 5/13/2018 at 6:11 PM, slorch said:

LMJ rockin the Barkley???  LOLz

Obviously you're not a golfer

I must have missed it, where's Blum tonight?

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