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How is the Cabbage Growing Down on the Farm?
Maybe this is due to the NFL draft (stretched out over 3 looooooong days) but I thought it was time to take a quick look at what is happening at the Astros’ minor league affiliates. The NFL is taking kids who will go straight to the NFL (or go home) while the MLB teams have…
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It’s Porter, not Luhnow, on the Astros’ hot seat
If you’re looking for a scapegoat for the Astros’ poor season, look no further than the dugout. Think about it: Jim Crane could fire Jeff Luhnow. Luhnow could fire Bo Porter. Who’s Porter going to fire? Nope, unless there is a turnaround this summer, other than a handful of pitchers and hitters, Porter is the…
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The sky isn’t falling, but I’m off the ledge for now
From time to time, Dan, Brian and I get together to confab over baseball issues, life matters or — and this is the one we confab most about — the blog. On Wednesday, they attempted to talk me off the ledge after reading many of the comments left on Brian’s entry. You may suggest I’m…
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Youth is Served (It’s a Cookbook!)
I was an idiot in my teens and early 20s. Without getting into details, I’ll have to be honest: I probably deserved a lot more speeding tickets than I actually received. And I received a lot of them. The fact that I’m not dead is a miracle, especially considering the three months I drove a…
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Assuming you are still Astros fans…Why?
Chip’s blog is a refuge for true Houston Astros’ fans. If we were a separate species, we would have to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Anyone who is the least objective has to stare at us and wonder – why do they still care after almost a decade of terrible fan abuse and…
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MMQB: Second guessing Porter and Luhnow
It’s Monday, so we’re throwing out the questions and second guesses while wondering if teams from the NFL and major league baseball from the same market have ever drafted #1 in the same season. The Texans face a quandary this week while the Astros have narrowed their choices down to seven. What are the chances…
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Roster juggling: A fun and therapeutic experiment
Six weeks ago, Dallas Keuchel and Collin McHugh were after thoughts for an Astros’ rotation that had high hopes with Scott Feldman, Jarred Cosart and Brett Oberholtzer at the top. Now, Keuchel and McHugh are the hottest Astros’ pitchers, Saturday’s crazy game notwithstanding. Six weeks ago, if someone had told you the Astros would be hitting…
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FREE BLOG WEEKEND: Singleton, McHugh, Change of Scenery
After an almost unprecedented two-days-off-in-one-week, a roster move, more DL news our band of still-struggling major leaguers tries to get its act together this weekend facing one of the few teams it has a winning records against. With the first full month behind the Astros and now looking the June draft square in the face,…
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