Author: Dan P
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5 reasons the Dana Brown hire is a good one
The Astros had been World Champions for 82 days on Thursday. The team had been without a general manager for 76 days. The news about the hiring process was coming out in small and infrequent glops like Heinz ketchup out of one of those old-school glass bottles.
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About that Astros’ 2022 offense
Anyone with a modicum of perception knows that the Astros rode superlative starting and relief pitching with above-average, but not a great offense to the World Championship.
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Astros’ fans multiple choice
Today it just feels like time for you to step up and make your voices heard. (OK, OK, you always get to make your voices heard, but it just felt like the right thing to say). Let’s try some multiple choice.
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Astros’ 2023: The list of open items
It is a pretty normal circumstance in the “real world” to be working on a project and have an open items or action items list. It is just a way of tracking items that need to happen, status, who is responsible, etc.
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Five critical items: Astros’ sustainability
The term sustainability normally is rattled around in the “Green” world. One definition is “Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance”.
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The Astros’ best position players for 2023
This is the time of the year when writers who get paid to do the job (i.e. not me) put out interesting predictive posts about players on all thirty teams…
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New Years’ resolutions with the best team in the world
Usually, when a new year comes around, human nature tends to push the inhabitants of planet Earth to make resolutions that we really need to attain, but rarely do.
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Since 2015: Who is the best?
Today’s post is a bit of self-subscribed homework for your loyal servant. Which team has been the best in baseball since 2015? Choosing 2015 coincides with the Astros Renaissance, so if you don’t like that cut-off….please read elsewhere. I chose to chart the teams that were the most consistently good during this period, even if…
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