Any rational beholder that sees people b****ing after a a baseball team has won 12 out of 15 and is approaching 100 wins on the season would think it's stupidity. These post were not in the heat of the moment, they were after the game. I don't even read the actual game posts because I know how much of a shitshow they can be.
And here you go with this bullshit again. Dude, just stop or grow a pair and take it to the D&D where it belongs.
Maybe. The problem is that with arbitration raises they will be at a number north of $180,000,000 for their 2023 payroll with zero additions.... and will be over $200,000,000 in 2024 just from arbitration raises. They have Gausman, Berrios, Ryu, Kikuchi all under contract as starters for $70,000,000 next season in their rotation. They also have Manoah under contract for years. They are losing Ross Stripling though unless they resign him. If I had to guess, they will trade some of their catching depth for young pitching under contract.
I guess then that it just comes down to your personality type. There are lots here. What you consider to be a “**** show” might be entertaining for someone else. We have a real time crowd who gets emotional, posts based on emotion, predict outcomes etc. Then we have the hindsight crowd. They like to come in after the fact, armed with the final score and with that air of superiority, attempting to shame the emotional posters. It’s a never ending cycle.
I mean geez, better infrastructure, happier citizens, less crime, less racism. Who would want to play for a city like that?
When he tied it up at 1-1. Had he run out of the box he would have easily made it to second. Assuming everything would have continued to happen he had a good chance to score on the subsequent single rather than going first to third
Until I see the retirement announcement he is coming back. 4.5 million is over 20% of his career earnings. I expect the Astros will tell him he won't play as much and he will be fine with that making 4.5 million.
I've come to the conclusion that what we are seeing in these game threads when things don't go well (overreaction, hyperbole of how bad the team is, unrealistic expectations) is the unfortunate result of the team's success. We've been really damn good for long enough now that there is an expectation, an entitlement, from casual fans that is (I really hate to say it) starting to look a little like Yankee fans and their constant grousing and booing of players/coaches. We certainly aren't there yet, but if we were the class of the AL for another decade or so I could see the average Houston Astro fan being as insufferable as those up north. I think it is something we will just have to live with.
As for me, I'm terrified the bats will go cold again like they did against the Braves, that's why I rant.
That potential is there for everybody, there isn't a single team that's slump proof over the miscroscopic sample of a playoff series.
Offense will always come/go. A lot of times the pitching may have something to do with that. Pitching (like defense) tends to be more consistent, which is why you can never have too much of it. Given that the 2022 Astros are largely where they are due to their entire pitching staff (not just their 1-2, or not just a great back-end of the bullpen... the WHOLE thing)... you have to like their chances even if the offense is inconsistent from game to game. Another factor that plays a big role in post-season success is experience. Some hitters crumble at the extra pressure, whereas ones that have been there before continue to excel. No team has more post-season experience in their lineup than the Astros (Dodgers included).
Just need Yordan and Altuve to be hot in the postseason. You get those guys going and them alone can carry you with that pitching staff.
This is what I assumed. But did that ball go to the wall? (I wasnt watching. Just checking the gamecast).
It did, it bounced off the top portion of the wall. And unlike some other off-the-wall hits that only result in a single, this was not hit on a rope. This was a long, high fly ball that he assumed was a homerun because he broke into his show-boaty home run trot out of the batter's box (slowly). By the time he knew it wasn't out of the park he couldn't get to 2nd base.
