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  • Weekend Thoughts

    Weekend Thoughts

    After getting a bit of respite from the 100+ F temperatures the last few days, we are heading back up; it is what it is in a Texas summer. And the same could be said about our first-place baseball team, the Houston Astros.

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  • The Astros’ first half: Is this what we expected?

    The Astros’ first half: Is this what we expected?

    In the comments to the last post – a good friend of the blog and our in-house island inn-keeper, uncleknuckle (previously known as Daveb) – mentioned that he didn’t think any of us thought this team would be this good. It is a good point.

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  • Halfway There

    Halfway There

    Apologies to Bon Jovi for stealing the title of this post from a line from Living on a Prayer, but this year’s Astros team is doing much more than living on a prayer.

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  • ChipalattAwards for June

    ChipalattAwards for June

    After a red-hot May that pushed the Astros into the lead in the AL West, they began June stumbling and bumbling a bit as they went 4-5 in the first 9 games.

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  • 2 Topics: Tucker and the rotation choices

    2 Topics: Tucker and the rotation choices

    The Astros’ New York/New York tour continues on Sunday after the good guys rebounded from a Thursday heartbreaker loss with a solid win on Friday behind another great start by Justin Verlander. Then they followed it with the Cristian Javier, Hector Neris, and Ryan Pressly no-hit win on Saturday. The team is now 4-1 on this…

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  • New York, New York: Big week ahead for Houston

    New York, New York: Big week ahead for Houston

    This may be the most challenging week and a half of the season for the Astros. The best team in the NL (the Mets) visits from New York for two games, and the Astros head east to play the best team in the AL and in all of baseball, the Yankees, in New York for…

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