Tag: Free Blog Weekend
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Free Blog Weekend :The stats say it all
Today we return to a fabulous Chipalatta tradition of Free Blog Weekend. You can take the discussion anywhere you want as long as it is respectful and has some ties to the Astros or baseball.
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Free Blog Weekend: Septembers, hits and other questions
It’s Friday, the weekend is ahead, so you know what that means: Free Blog Weekend. Let’s get started. September Morn. It does seem like a new day now that Tom Lawless and Adam Everett are leading the dugout. Houston is 6-2 this month with 16 games to go and, while several games are against contenders…
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FREE blog weekend II: It’s time . . .
Tom Lawless got his first loss as Astros’ manager Saturday, a loss that was snatched from the jaws of a win. Needing one win over the last few weeks to avoid a fourth consecutive 100-loss season, Chad Qualls struck again, this time with his sixth blown save of the season. So, as the team streaks to…
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FREE blog weekend: Maybe Crane was right and how ’bout that Carter?
Nothing better than a day off after a new manager gets two wins under his belt and the Astros ponder their future. Maybe, just maybe, Jim Crane was right? While it wasn’t an outright prediction, Crane suggested last spring the Astros could be a .500 team in 2014. At 61-79, if you factor in 12…
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Free Blog Weekend: Crystal ball on the off-season
It’s Friday and the weekend is on. That means a Free Blog Weekend. It’s a 9-year tradition, starting back in 2005 on that other site. Six months ago, if you’d been offered a 66-96 record — a 15-game improvement and 30-game swing — for the 2014 season, most of you would have accepted the offer,…
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Free Blog Weekend: ROY, Ed, trades and stuff
The Astros will reach the halfway point of the 2014 season with Friday’s game against Detroit. While the team has taken a step back in June after a couple steps forward in May, Houston is now headed toward a 69-win season at its current pace. Not exactly a winning season, not exactly the playoffs. Still, a…
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Free Blog Weekend: Homers, Hopelessness, Exhaustion
Talk of the Astros’ resurrection are a bit premature. Well, after twice hitting the high-water mark of six games under .500, the Astros have now slipped to 10 games under. Still, despite the recent slide, the Astros are on pace to win 70 games. That’d be a 19-game improvement over 2013. If someone had told…
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FREE BLOG WEEKEND: Things that will fix the Astros
It’s wide open. It’s a FREE BLOG Weekend! Assume Jim Crane, Jeff Luhnow and Bo Porter are reading and paying attention. The weekend question is simple: What will fix the Astros? Not necessarily what will get them to first place or even the playoffs, but what will make them worth watching or following? Here are some starters:…
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