Author: Dan P
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Astros 2023: Crisis mode?
On the drive into work Tuesday morning, there was quite a bit of discussion on the Astros’ starting pitching situation based on Lance McCullers Jr.’s wonky elbow and Hunter Brown and his healthy elbow playing the role of the Pitching Stud Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Sean Pendergast on 610 AM had apparently tweeted something on…
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Astros’ 2023: Would you rather?
Today we feature another version of “Would You Rather”, where you get two tough choices for the upcoming 2023 Astros’ season. Would you rather…
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Astros’ spring training: What’s the point?
This cynicism or apathy or whatever this current mood that is enveloping my psyche is easily explained. The off-season is bad enough, with occasional news supplemented by lots of filler, like a bad awards show. Bad awards show….that is rather redundant.
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Astros’ thoughts and concerns
Here we are about a week into Spring Training and a couple days before the first Spring Training game, and we already have “concerns” with the Astros. Here are some thoughts about some of those concerns and about some related subjects.
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Astros’ Offseason: Questions of the day…part deux
Whether it was the quality of the questions or the fact that Spring Training has begun, there was a good response to the last post, so it’s time to double down. Here are 10 more questions for our good readers to address.
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Astros’ offseason: Questions of the day
Dan P is in a bit of a writing funk. The best way to address that is to come up with some impossible questions and have loyal readers take a shot at them.
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Baseball doldrums of winter
Renaissance Men Part 2 is postponed until your loyal writer gets more free time here in the next couple of weeks. There seems to be a bit more disinterest in baseball non-news lately, as stated succinctly by two of our longtime commenters.
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Astros’ Renaissance Men: Part 1
After the disastrous seasons of 2011-2014, when the Astros averaged a record of 58 wins and 104 losses, the sun broke through in 2015 and has stayed shining on up through their second World Championship in 2022. This period of 2015 to 2022 has been a Renaissance of sorts for the team and the fans…
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