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The 2021 Baseball Season - Things to Come

Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by jim1961, Oct 19, 2020.

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The 2021 Season will:

Poll closed Mar 19, 2021.
  1. Be the usual 162 games

    21 vote(s)
    35.0%
  2. Be another shortened season (100-120 games played)

    34 vote(s)
    56.7%
  3. Be another shortened season (60-80 games played)

    5 vote(s)
    8.3%
  4. Be cancelled. No games played at all

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. lnchan

    lnchan Sugar Land Leonard
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    Can he get a fishing buddy named Angel Hernandez?
     
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  2. Buck Turgidson

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    It also means articulate.

    Shame that word, spelled as it is, has 2 different pronunciations and 2 different definitions, either of which would have kind of fit with your sentence.
     
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  3. cmlmel77

    cmlmel77 Up all Night Watching Houston Sports

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    for the record, I meant “well-spoken”. But I have a feeling @bobrek was asking because he thought I was making an actually racist comment.

    Has anyone ever observed that a sarcasm font would be useful on the internet, or am I the first? [\sarcasm]
     
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  4. Marshall Bryant

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    I have often proposed ~sarcasm~ since the ~ ~ is right on top of every keyboard and looks like an s that's fallen down laughing. But my suggestion has never caught on.

    ~You guys are brilliant.~
     
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  5. marks0223

    marks0223 2017 and 2022 World Series Champions
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  6. jim1961

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    There are dozens of pics like this on the web..
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  7. Joe Joe

    Joe Joe Go Stros!
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  8. Nick

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    What a cluster. Just move the team to Montreal full time. It’s a better historical market, would be closer to NY/Boston, they get a natural rivalry again with Toronto… although with the latest shenanigans, looks like Jays-Rays rivalry has got some teeth.

    Baseball in Florida is going to be a never-ending boondoggle. Marlins included. Great for spring training…
     
  9. sealclubber1016

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    Is there a bigger gulf in all of sports between a team's on field and off field competence.
     
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  10. Joe Joe

    Joe Joe Go Stros!
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    Houston Texans. They make a ton of money...
     
  11. J.R.

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  12. sealclubber1016

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    True, although having a monopoly on a product the locals are addicted to certainly helps.

    Who am I kidding, the brilliant business mind of Cal is what makes them their money.
     
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  13. Joe Joe

    Joe Joe Go Stros!
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    Even tough he's dead, the Texans are built on Bob McNair's business competence. The decisions that the Rays front office have made will likely not keep them as good as long as Bob McNair's monopoly keeps the Texans printing money.
     
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  14. Joe Joe

    Joe Joe Go Stros!
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    Granted, I may be bitter because the Texans dominance in the Houston market has limited talk on the Astros and the Rockets.
     
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  15. juicystream

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    I can't imagine that actually happens. Surely MLB would step in and tell them not to do that.
     
  16. Nick

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    They’ve already said they’re not going to do it… but given the coverage this recieved, seems like they got what they wanted. Awareness of their intentions.
     
  17. jim1961

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    Do Dusty Baker next.

     
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  19. RKREBORN

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    Would love to have Tingler here
     
  20. Buck Turgidson

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    I haven't watched enough of them day-in-day-out to have an informed opinion about him, but I'm not sure how any manager could have dealt with having a pitching staff fall apart with injuries like the Pads' did.
     

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