The thought crept into my mind last night. Hope we’re too talented to fall in a valley come playoff time.
No, they're not even at 1/2 throttle imo. There's still the other half of throttle range plus a bottle of nitrous left. It's not June or July. We good.
Hopefully they are jettisoned into the next stratosphere, where they are playing cool calm and collectively through the playoffs. I suspect they are honing their groove. They aren’t playing beyond their capacity, they just trounced on two teams that got got! But I’ve never seen a team be so dominant. However, in these past 2 games the teams gave up, its not going to happen all the time. Which means we could see a 1 run game today. The Astros are taking what the opposing team is giving them. The swings are under control, the pitchers are commanding their pitches. Fun times.
Still getting Correa, Gurriel and Pressly back and guys will continue to have off days between now and October. That Bryan Abreu for the postseason roster is intriguing though.
This is ...impressive https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.a...tdate=1920-01-01&enddate=2019-12-31&sort=17,d
I am starting to think the Astros are going to be too much for the other teams to handle in the playoffs. Too many pitching aces, too many hitters and sluggers. Never get over confident, but they look like the baseball version of the Patriots. Seriously, they are going to be a load come playoff time.
Well, I guess I wasn't wrong. It's just been so long since I watched the Simpsons that I forgot the exact scene. I grew up obsessed with the Simpsons, but it hasn't been good since a few years after that clip, and yet it's still going. Ironically, considering the clip posted, the Simpsons itself simply won't die when it really needs to.
I'd say if you could somehow scale the Astros to the Patriots or vice versa, you'd find that the Astros are stupidly more talented than the Patriots. I mean, the Patriots have Brady (and always will), but they're never bursting at the seam with superstars. The Astros have the two AL Cy Young candidates pitching 1 and 2, a guy contending for the battling title, an MVP candidate with a WAR just shy of Trout, the Rookie of the Year, and also Springer, Altuve, Yuli, and more. And a pretty great pen. The difference, however, is that the Patriots play to win no matter who they field or who they're against, and they don't let up. If they're up 21 at the half, they make sure to win by 42. Belichick makes sure of it and extracts everything he can get from who he has. Model of consistency. The Astros are a crazy ride. They won 2-1 on Saturday behind JV. Then they scored 36 runs in the next two games. They'll destroy good teams and limp past bad teams. The talent is overwhelming, but the teamwide mentality of play to win every single time is not intensely there like it is with the Patriots. If the Patriots had the equivalent player wealth that the Astros have, you might as well just shut the NFL down. But they're so much more fun to watch than the Patriots, and Hinch is brilliant in his own right. A healthy Astros team playing with another trophy completely on their mind is going to be unstoppable. But we can only breathe easily after the final out of the fourth World Series win. Such is the Astros. Such is baseball.
That's awesome. I remember them talking about and showing those seats during the Astros HoF weekend. Now, they're probably in the up-and-coming Astros museum, I'm sure, so super cool for them to get hauled out to honor our manchild. Can you imagine what Yordan would have done in the Dome?
The Astros are f**king 26-4 with double the runs against the AL basement dwellers and some people are still going with this stupid ass narrative that the Astros don't take poor opponents seriously.
