Nah, Bigg will bean him with the ball and then proceed to demonstrate why he should armour up like he did.
I didn't expect it to be a popular opinion here, and really don't care. No one has been a fan of the Astros longer than I have, my father and I going to games from the first season, when they were the Colt 45's playing in the temporary stadium and we were battling the mosquitoes, with the Dome a big hole in the ground. Yes, when I bother to think about it, I'm still livid at what current ownership and Baseball did to a city always viewed as the red headed stepchild by any sport on the planet. There wasn't one good reason when it comes to the fans for a move by Houston from the NL to the AL. The reason was greed, pure and simple. Maybe in another 20 years, if I can still get around, I'll go see a game, or perhaps if they make it to the Series sooner than that. Otherwise, I could care less. You guys and gals can bite the bullet and buy in to the change. I'll pass.
One thing I didn't realize that Sutcliffe said last night on the espn broadcast is that the Astros have the hardest opening schedule in MLB. Something ridiculous like 39 of their first 48 games are against teams that were .500 or better last year.
Yeah..there was an article a few weeks ago (I believe on ESPN) detailing that the Astros started off with the toughest schedule based on last year's results.
Well its also sort of a by-product of playing in a division with the Angels and Mariners... and playing a lot of games against them, regardless of the time of year.
If you're just measuring by games against last year's +0.500 teams, I don't think it has any impact. Each of the AL divisions had 3 teams above 0.500 and 2 below it last year. So all 6 of the sub-0.500 teams would have similar numbers of games against above 0.500 teams, outside of however interleague play breaks down.
Its still largely semantical.... the Astros are getting a bulk of games against the Angels, A's and Mariners early which inflates their "over .500" record. The other sub-.500 teams may not be playing a ton of divisional games early, for whatever reason, but the overall cumulative record of teams is skewed because the Astros play in a division with three very good teams. (Its very likely that the Astros and Rangers have the "hardest" overall schedules this year because they play those other teams in an unbalanced fashion... and they don't get to play themselves). They also happen to be playing the Giants and Blue Jays as "other" games, but the bulk of their games are still within the division.
The Astros have a handful of players to be happy about... but they are going to strike out a ton and 3/5ths of their starting rotation is "meh." I'm happy they are on the up swing, but don't get your hopes up after one game. They'll be lucky to finish 3rd in the division.
No necessarily. There is a great comfort that comes with being bitter about how a POS a**hole took a dump on the team that you had loved since childhood.
He's angry that the team was "taken away from him", more or less - that's caring. If he didn't care about the Astros, then he wouldn't care that they are in the AL or have a DH or a POS owner.
I’m going to be Debbie Downer here and say I’m not that excited about this team. I’m actually more pessimistic than most. The Astros basically replaced some terrible players with “okay” players with limited upside all around. This means that they will likely improve by several wins, probably a good bet to be in the upper 70s, but I can’t see a scenario where they make a Cinderella run by being in the playoff race of some kind. I think the Astros truly launching point is when Appel and Correa comes up next year.
Pessimism is upper 70s in wins... My how far we've come Valid points and realistic. It's just hard to not be optimistic during Opening Week.
