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Astros 2025: What the heck?
It is no secret that your loyal scribe struggles with how to best document the 2025 version of the Astros.
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Astros 2025: What’s on my mind
This version of the Astros has been one of the toughest to get a handle on for your faithful scribe. Are they the mediocre team we discussed in our last post? Are they a team on the cusp of offensive improvement that will soon go on a tear? Are they team on the cusp of…
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Astros 2025: In the Depths of Mediocrity
Back in college, I took a geology class as a science elective. I was pursuing an engineering degree, and I thought this course might tie into it. So far after 45+ years, it has not. But I do have one memory from that class that stays with me. Early in the semester the professor was…
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Hall of Fame Redemption? Or Just a Convenient Rewrite?
Major League Baseball quietly made a move this week that got far less attention than it deserved: Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were posthumously removed from the league’s permanently ineligible list. That list has had two headliners for the past century. Now? They’re off it—dead, but technically eligible. And just like that, Cooperstown gets…
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Astros 2025: What Concerns You?
With the Astros on the cusp of the quarter pole of the season, what are the concerns about this team? I’m concerned ….
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Astros 2025: How it ends
My wife and I like to watch a little guilty pleasure of a movie called “How It Ends”. (Note – there are two such named movies in the recent past. This is the 2021 version starring Zoe Lister-Jones, who also co-wrote it and co-directed it.)
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⚾ Momentum Monday: Astros’ fans, let’s talk ball!
Happy Momentum Monday, Astros’ Nation! As we roll through May, the AL West is still up for grabs. The Mariners hold the top spot, but they can’t shake the A’s and Astros — and with Houston’s pitching showing real flashes, the division race could shift if they can get those cranky bats going. Here’s your…
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ChipalattAwards for Mapril
After a scrabbling start, the Astros have at least partially righted the ship in the last couple weeks and stand at 16-14 at the end of April. They are second in the AL West two games behind Seattle and fifth overall in the AL.
