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The 2015 Astros’ season begins this weekend
Jim Crane is right. If the Astros do not make the playoffs in 2015, the season will have been a disappointment. Say all you will about the unexpected success. Shout it out loud that 2017 is supposed to the year anyway. Yeah, yeah, the organization is in rebuild mode and 2015 wasn’t supposed to be the…
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Astros’ season balancing on the edge of a knife
The 2015 Houston Astros season has come down to the nine final games with the Astros falling swiftly in the race for the AL West division lead and on the verge of missing the playoffs all together. What will happen between now and the end of the season? What kind of team will they end…
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Astros 2015 – Kudos to the Grateful Dead
It is time to tip a cap to the seminal jam band, the Grateful Dead, and sing a chorus of “what a long strange trip it’s been”. The Houston Astros 2015 season has been unexpected, exhilarating, maddening, inspired, expired, crazy, and one more time, unexpected. The Astros were not supposed to be here. They were not supposed to…
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Sunday update: Are Astros just tiring from a long season?
A few random thoughts this Sunday as the Astros still struggle to reach pre-season goals for the team many thought would do good to hit .500 or just above. Is the team just tired? Several players — including pitchers — have hit career highs in many categories, faced injuries all season or have had inconsistent playing…
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September thou art a heartless witch….
The Astros are melting like the Wicked Witch caught in a car wash as the heat of the pennant race is cranked up in the month of September. Heading into Saturday’s games they are 4-12 for the month and except for a miracle last Sunday would be on an eight game losing streak instead of…
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Free Blog Weekend: No, the 2015 season isn’t over for Astros
So if the playoffs began today, the Astros would indeed back in. But those playoffs are still a couple of weeks away and those 15 games will determine what type of team Jeff Luhnow has assembled and just how much magic that A.J. Hinch really has in that thar brain. In reality, the first 147…
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A few simple questions as the Astros fade
Simple questions as the Astros have lost perhaps the biggest series of games of the 2015 season. Do the Astros deserve to make the playoffs period? Can the team recover and still make a late run? Finest hour or worst disaster? Should Jeff Luhnow start to plan for 2016 now? Are you ready to give…
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Will 2015 be the Astros’ finest hour?
“This could be the worst disaster NASA’s ever faced.” ~~NASA Director. “With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.” ~~Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 Mission Flight Director. • •• ••• •• • That classic exchange from the movie Apollo 13 puts the Houston Astros’ season into perspective. It’s crunch time for the Astros. Time…
