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  • Astros 2024: Heading into the home stretch

    Astros 2024: Heading into the home stretch

    Six weeks from yesterday is the last game of the season for the Astros. Six weeks can mean a lot of things in a baseball season.

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  • Astros 2024 – It Takes Three To Tango?

    Astros 2024 – It Takes Three To Tango?

    As a friend of the blog, Daveb, pointed out recently, the Astros, since June 18,has turned a 10-game deficit to the Seattle Mariners into a 3-game lead. The Astros have been playing better in the last couple months, but they certainly have been helped by how poorly the M’s have been playing over that time.

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  • Astros 2024: Unloading my “stuff”

    Astros 2024: Unloading my “stuff”

    I was thinking a bit about the late great George Carlin and his famous monologue about “stuff”.

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  • In Praise of Yainer Diaz

    In Praise of Yainer Diaz

    A couple of years ago, we put together the following tome on the 10 greatest trades in Astros history.

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  • Astros 2024: The offense is wimping out

    Astros 2024: The offense is wimping out

    The Astros expended a lot of energy and had quite a bit of good fortune (they were chasing the equally inept Mariners) while getting back into the AL West pennant race. But lately their failures have revolved around an unexpected area of the team.

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  • Astros 2024: A message from Chip

    Astros 2024: A message from Chip

    Chip Bailey is the founder of the feast around here, and when he speaks out, I listen. He has a lot going on outside of sports these days, so his texts are usually news blips about the Astros with a few cryptic words. But yesterday, he dumped a couple of texts on me that were

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