As I morph older and older, I find that I am turning into my parents. Good people living in a world that is not catering to them. Sometimes it is the gazillion ways people choose to be “social” these days, though I assume that anyplace that tosses you because they don’t like your opinion is not that social.
The Astros officially announced the 6 year/ $115 MM extension of Yordan Alvarez yesterday, a deal that was unofficially leaked over the weekend. The Astros bought out the three seasons of Alvarez’s arbitration and the first three seasons of his free agency.
No, I’m not asking for cash. It is just that I’m on the road writing this one on the fly without access to stats unless I want to log back into WordPress every time I go pull a stat. I do not. So I will go back to a tried and true method, ask my dear friends questions, and let you take the wheel with responses. Here we go!
This is the kind of post that can make one look foolish when the subject of early-season praise turns into a pumpkin by mid-season. But something about the way Jeremy Pena carries himself tells me he is the real deal.
Had an enjoyable astronomical weekend. Friday night, the International Space Station came overhead here in Sugar Land, and we watched it pass over. Not too exciting but a unique way to spend a few minutes. That was followed up by the blood-red lunar eclipse last night, which for once occurred at a fairly reasonable time between about 9:30 and 11 PM (If I said AM, this would be a bit problematic). Now that was quite interesting and a lot of fun to see.
Today we return to a long time favorite post established by the founder of the feast, as it were, Chip Bailey. It is called free blog weekend, and as it implies, it features the mental fancies of all our commenters here on the blog taking the conversation anywhere they wish to go.
Sometimes this writer’s brain gets clogged up with too much “stuff” and needs a day to dislodge all the stuff floating around his brain.
It is tough to know what to think as an Astros fan here in 2022. Are we supposed to be hacked off about their shortcomings or be happy about their long goings?
CHIPALATTA 