Speak for yourself. I bet $325 the Astros would win the WS and stand to win $1,800 if they win it all.
Can someone explain why the MLB is delaying its decision on Abreu? Seems like they are just jerking us around on that.
Rangers current GM, Chris Young used to be in the league office that disciplines player just a few years ago. Pretty sure it's his old co-workers watching out for him and his team.
I still can't believe only 3 guys on this team got a hit in this game. It doesn't get much worse than that. Even stranger is that anyone whose last name didn't end in A didn't get a hit. I thought they'd make a statement tonight after all the BS we endured the last game. I thought they'd come home and clinch this series for the home fans tonight. I guess it will be that much sweeter tomorrow night if we kick their butts. This is not not a stress free series by any means, but it's not over yet. Come on Stros! Let's Do This!
Tucks problems started when he was pushing hard to get 30 homers and 100 rbis. Remember how long he was stuck at 99 RBIs? He became a bad hitter the closer he got and then he still struggled. Their was too much talk about Tuck wanting to reach his season end goals. It became more about him than the team.
Yeah this is pretty insane. The guys on FS1 just said the MLB said they'll make that decision on gametime. That's quite frankly inexcusable. So Abreu has no idea if he's pitching tomorrow or not. I mean he should be prepared either way but this should be something they let the Astros know first thing in the morning.
I don't believe for a minute he puts money on us to lose. Seriously? Come on man, that's ridiculous. Have you seen how excited he gets when we win? Didn't you see how enraged he got over that BS ejection of Abreu?
There's something weird about a dynasty level baseball team that is statistically below average in their home ballpark. That has to be figured out. And it's not just one thing. It's not just pitching or hitting. They are legitimately not good in the park where they play more than half their games. That has been the biggest failure of the season and it can't be ignored in the offseason. They need to figure that **** out ASAP.
From what I understand, Abreu waited until just before game time to appeal, meaning he was available tonight. I believe the CBA requires all appeals to be heard and ruled on within 48 hours of appeal in the postseason, therefore it's been reported that there is a hearing tomorrow, after which Abreu will have to serve his suspension immediately unless they overturn his appeal (highly unlikely). I also think that this something in the new CBA, because the Yuli suspension from the 2017 World Series was pushed until 2018. It sounds like the rules state that the suspension must be served immediately (or at least that's what the reporting I've seen seems to say). Most likely outcome in my opinion is that they either uphold the full 2 game suspension or drop it to 1 game. I would be shocked if it's overturned all together, so in my mind, it's practically a guarantee he's out for Game 7.
We can dang sure win it...we have to score runs and Javy has to hang in there for like 6 innings and pitch his butt off and only giving up a run or two. I'm so disappointed in the "I" instead of "team" approach. Bases loaded and you got up there swinging at balls when you should make a guy throw strikes. But, everyone wants to be a hero. A pitch comes in on you and you jump out of the way instead of taking the hit on a heavily armored arm. When Javy is on, he's on....got to hope good Javy shows up and we can score some runs. We owe Scherzer one.
There are definitely a number of things that need to be worked on in the offseason. The top of that list is figuring out why this team can't win at home.
You have to imagine it's a result of the team pressing, especially given how bad they have struggled at home. I doubt that changes tomorrow or in the World Series if they pull off a win tomorrow night. Hopefully something is figured out in the offseason regarding their struggles at MMP.
Every Astros player is getting asked why they can't win at home and they've got nothing. It's deep in their heads now.
He shouldn't be pitching tomorrow regardless. You max out a reliever at 4 appearances in a 7 game set.
1 Altuve 2 Dubon 3 Bregman 4 Alvarez 5 Abreu 6 Tucker 7 Diaz 8 Brantley 9 Pena This is the lineup to go
