Month: September 2018
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Free Blog Weekend: Credit, better than ’17 and other starters
Free Blog Weekend is a Chipalatta tradition. Basically you can blog about whatever you want relative to the 2018 Astros.
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Oakland finally blinks,: Astros are AL West champions
If you told an Astros fan before the season that the Astros would be the AL West Champs they might have yawned at you and said “But of course”. If you told them they were in for a tough struggle and would only pull it out in the last week of the season their interest…
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Astros 2018: The week in review, the week ahead
The week of 9-17 through 9-23 in review The Astros began the week with a solid 4.5 game lead over the unbelievably hot A’s. The Astros started the week in a wobbly fashion losing 2 out of 3 to the Mariners at home. But they cranked things up with a 3 game sweep of the…
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Fans of the 2018 Astros: What’s bugging us?
It’s kind of unfair. Fans wait forever – up to 56 seasons (depending on our age and when we began cheering for them) for their Houston Astros to win a World Championship and then after they do, in a blink of an eye, the celebration is over and the angst over the next season returns.…
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Astros 2018: The week in review, the week ahead
The week of 9-10 through 9-16 in review The Astros lead was a tenuous 2.5 games over the A’s heading into this big week. The Astros swept the Detroit Tigers on the road and came back from a first game loss to win a three-game series with the Arizona D’Backs. The Astros in reversing a season-long…
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Astros 2018: Weekend wonderings
This week’s discussion on whether the Astros would have drafted Alex Bregman if they had drafted Kris Bryant instead of Mark Appel brought to mind other “what if” questions.
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Astros 2018 stat leaders: What a difference a year makes
Despite returning a big chunk of the 2018 World Champions – there is no denying that this year’s version is a far different club than the one that took home the trophy and rings. This comes home very clearly when we review the players who led in individual categories in 2017 and the players who…
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The Astros’ week in review and the week ahead
The week of 9-3 through 9-9 in review Heading into this past week with the Astros playing a Twins team that was recently performing well and then playing the best team in the majors in the Red Sox on their home turf, holding serve with a 2.5 game lead over the Oakland A’s would have seemed acceptable. But…
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