Houston Astros 2017 Thread

Discussion in 'Baseball' started by Phil Elliott, Apr 4, 2017.

  1. Joe Fan

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  2. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

    I was at that game and dont remember that. Nasty. What the hell was Frazier thinking? Ugly.
     
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  3. VYFan

    VYFan 2,500+ Posts

    Maybe his manager told him he better not be called out looking, so he just swang.
     
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  4. NJlonghorn

    NJlonghorn 2,500+ Posts

    I heard him discuss it (or maybe it was Girardi discussing it?). The story was that he decided way to late that it was going to be strike 3, so he tried to get the bat out there to foul it off. It looked horrible, and I laugh every time I see it. But it is better than just watching the ball go by. Barely.
     
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  5. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  6. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    Finally the right guy won one of these!
     
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  7. VYFan

    VYFan 2,500+ Posts

    A year to remember for the Astros.
     
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  8. Joe Fan

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  10. mb227

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    Not bad for a couple weeks of work...when you can get it.
     
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  11. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    If I were him, I would pretend I never saw either of these


     
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  12. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Jose with Joel Embiid

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  13. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    a little more perspective

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  14. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    He may be small, but he is gonna go down as the greatest Astros player ever IMO.
     
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  15. mb227

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    I'd like to think his hitting is what we could have had a decade of had Dickie Thon not taken that fastball to the eye/cheek...
     
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  16. Joe Fan

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  17. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Could you imagine adding Giancarlo Stanton to this lineup?

     
  18. Joe Fan

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  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    That will be an interesting 4-5 in the batting order to get through, for any pitcher

     
  20. mb227

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    Remains to be seen how he holds up to the spotlight of the New York media...there have been plenty of good players who went up there and melted. Many were still good players but were not 'superstars' and were raked over the coals...
     
  21. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Yeah, I think last year was his career year and TB was taking advantage of that to dump a crazy salary (this is why I thought he would end up a Ranger). On the other hand, the NYY, as they existed, were already capable of taking us 7 games.
     
  22. mb227

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    BUT...sometimes a team with too many 'superstars' has a breakdown in chemistry...they keep trying to spell team with an "I" - this is one of the reasons that the Astros seem to do as well as they did is they don't have the egos clashing.
     
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  23. Joe Fan

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  24. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I got one

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  25. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    This is quite the story

     
  26. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Never give up; miracles do happen.
     
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  27. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Too bad for them

     
  28. Joe Fan

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  29. Joe Fan

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  30. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    Still cannot understand how AB did not get a Golden Glove.
     

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