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An Open Letter to Jim Crane
Dear Jim Crane. Mr. Crane, we owe you a lot of thanks. You brought Houston fans a brand of baseball we’ve never seen before. Sure, we got close with Drayton McLane, and there were a few fun years there. Clemens, Pettitte, Biggio, Bagwell et al. But you brought us two World Championships and several seasons…
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Top 6 for the last 6
The Astros are entering the last 6 weeks of the season as they begin their series Tuesday with the Los Angeles (Isosceles Tri) Angles of Anaheim or some such location.
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It is time…
Perhaps, as has been suggested in our little blog, no one will win the AL West. The title will fall as a default to the team that stinketh the least. But if the title can be won by better play by the Astros, the time is now.
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What I am thinking, and why you should care
This has been a crazy season for the Astros: they were as cold in the first third of the season as former 3B Alex Bregman always was, then had an Alex Bregman warm-weather improvement for the second third of the season. And now we are part of the way into the last third of the…
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Astros 2026: By the numbers
As the Astros begin a critical series out west in San Diego, this blogger has come to a decision. In this very tight race to the playoffs, all series are critical, so we will not be using that adjective anymore.
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ChipalattAwards for July 2026
The Astros were 13-10 in July, including a 9-1 run at the end of the month that gave them a 0.5-game lead in the AL West. How do the Astros’ stats look vs. the other teams in the American League in July?
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