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Free baseball: 5 questions to consider before the WS first pitch
It’s time for some free baseball! This time, however, the celebration isn’t about only reaching the World Series. It’s about winning the biggest trophy on the biggest stage in major league baseball. The Astros are playing in late October for only the second time in the organization’s history. Fox Sports showed a graphic of teams with…
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Houston proud: Holy toledo, Astros win! Astros win!
This is your night! Memorialize your thoughts here in a time capsule for the ages! For more than 50 years, I have have been a die hard fan of this organization. From lying in bed with a transistor radio to watching playoff games in the Astrodome, then from the Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid Park…
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Sports Illustrated reputation is on the line in ALCS
Sports Illustrated’s reputation is on the line tonight at Minute Maid Park in Houston! Here we are — Game 7 of the ALCS — but the Astros still haven’t arrived. Unfortunately, the season may feel like a lost season if the Astros don’t raise a pennant flag tonight. Despite Justin Verlander and Jose Altuve and…
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Astros 2017: It ain’t over until C.C. Sabathia sings!
It never has seemed fair to always talk about “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” Sure there are some hefty lady opera singers, but did you ever see the late Luciano Pavarotti? He could have played a backup catcher in a bad “B” baseball movie. So, for fairness and in honor of the…
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Astros need to get their offensive mojo back
Three games is really not a slump, but in a seven game series it can be a killer trend that needs to be reversed. And that is where the Houston Astros stand entering the critical fourth game of their series with the New York Yankees. They drilled the Boston Red Sox in four games with…
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Sunday thoughts: The plan, the destination, second base and other thoughts
A few thoughts on a Sunday when the Astros wake up in their own beds with a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series.
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