Category: Dan Peschong
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The Astros’ first half: Is this what we expected?

In the comments to the last post – a good friend of the blog and our in-house island inn-keeper, uncleknuckle (previously known as Daveb) – mentioned that he didn’t think any of us thought this team would be this good. It is a good point.
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Halfway There

Apologies to Bon Jovi for stealing the title of this post from a line from Living on a Prayer, but this year’s Astros team is doing much more than living on a prayer.
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ChipalattAwards for June

After a red-hot May that pushed the Astros into the lead in the AL West, they began June stumbling and bumbling a bit as they went 4-5 in the first 9 games.
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New York, New York: Big week ahead for Houston

This may be the most challenging week and a half of the season for the Astros. The best team in the NL (the Mets) visits from New York for two games, and the Astros head east to play the best team in the AL and in all of baseball, the Yankees, in New York for…
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Let’s talk about that lineup

This post is slightly shanghaied by the news that Jeremy Pena has been placed on the IL. But since this is all hypothetical, let’s pretend that Pena is back and Dusty Baker has asked your opinion about the makeup of his daily lineup. Talk about hypothetical….
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Multi-Verse? Multi-Choice? Whatever

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…
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Was Yordan paid enough? Will Tucker get more?

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.
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Helping the Blogger

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…
