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Correa signing tops wild and wooly 24 hours of Houston sports
Two long-awaited actions hung over Houston sports fandom throughout this offseason. One was the eventual dumping of scandal-plagued Texans’ QB Deshaun Watson and the other was the eventual landing spot of Astros’ shortstop Carlos Correa. In retrospect, the scandal attached to Correa’s name is a molehill compared to the mountain looming over Watson for the…
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Options for the Astros’ rotation
One of the most prominent question marks heading into 2022 for the Astros is the potential makeup of their starting rotation. It is a conglomeration of what we know and what we don’t know.
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The 2022 Astros in fantasy land
The other day an article popped up on the mlb.com site that caught this writer’s fancy.
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The Lockout Ends: Waiting for the Astros first domino to fall
A few weeks ago, we ran one of our Q/A type posts…. If you thumb down the comments a bit, I answered my own questions. For #3 – when would I bet the lockout would end – I picked March 11 – so I just missed it, though somewhere in the world, it was probably…
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Astros 2021 MVP re-look
The Astros at the end of the 2021 season declared Carlos Correa their positional player MVP, which is basically the whole team MVP. Starting pitchers are nice, but playing 35 games at the most just doesn’t do it in the value department.
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Thursday thoughts on baseball and the Astros
There is very little activity related to MLB baseball at the moment, so thoughts are all we have.
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The lockout and the struggle for perspective
A scene from the classic movie Casablanca came to mind as I was reading the most recent news items about the “hostile” meetings between the MLB and the MLBPA. On a side note, I am a charter member of the MPO (Majorly P$#%ed Off) group, but I digress.
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If I could…
No, this is not the lovely (sappy) hit song by Bread. This is your chance as a baseball and/or Astro fan to fill in a few “If” scenarios.
