Category: Astros
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2020 season finally over for Astros…Darn it!
Let’s face facts. We can hardly wait until the awful, terrible, horrible 2020 year ends. And probably three weeks ago, we thought that we could hardly wait until the 2020 baseball season would be over. We were wondering if the team that played embarrassingly bad down the stretch would further embarrass us in the best…
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And the magic rolls on
On Wednesday, Astro fans were facing the fact that their team had overperformed to beat the Twins and the A’s, and had not quite performed as well as the Rays in falling into a seemingly hopeless 0-3 pit in the ALCS. The man who had been the 2017 AL MVP and had walked off the…
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Is the clock striking midnight for the Astros?
It is funny how the lack of expectations coming into the post-season for the Astros has slowly turned into a small pile of expectations after they emerged victorious from the first two rounds.
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The Astros vs. Rays: Part deux
In 2019, the Tampa Bay Rays came closer to eliminating the Astros in the ALDS than the Yankees did in the ALCS. The Rays pushed the Astros to a win or go home fifth game, while the Astros, thanks to Jose Altuve, sent the Yanks home in the sixth game of their best in 7…
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Fun is back: Astros move on to the ALCS
Like most things in the year 2020, cheering for the Houston Astros has been a muted and distant experience. With no one in attendance, the shortened season, the modified rules and the shadow of COVID hanging over baseball and our lives the baseball experience was a blurry version of the norm.
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Game 3 of the ALDS: Critical one for both teams
Excuse the brevity of this post, but your faithful writer is about to head out to the Hill Country to see family we have not seen in months.
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The Astros play the devil they know in the ALDS
While the Astros were waiting for the Oakland A’s and the Chicago White Sox to play their third game of the Wild Card round, some interesting storylines were being tossed out there.
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The young and the old lead Astros over the Twins
A good friend of the blog, Becky checked in with a cogent comment yesterday after the Astros eliminated the Minnesota Twins in a two-game sweep.
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