In good news I'm going to be back to productivity tomorrow. Might as well schedule that afternoon meeting I was putting off.
Brutal end... To a otherwise crazy season. It sucks we can't win every season... but this was reality for us for a long time. Lots of questions. Not many answers. Verlander should have taken more time to heal. But overall. this was a winnable series that got iced by stellar Detroit pitching. Almost like they know us. They were aggressive and deserved to win. Congrats Detroit.
Yeah. There's something way special about old people and baseball. And that's cool because I'm rapidly turning into one myself. An old person I mean. Not a baseball...
The bugaboo that plagued our rookie manager, losing a vast majority of close games, came back to bite us and no one should be surprised. Sense of urgency lacking. Late clutch hitting was dreadful. A bullpen that never really materialized.
Kansas City blooped, ground balled, and bullpenned their way to a title. It's very difficult, and relied on both the Astros and Mets imploding (holy **** the Mets should have won that series in 5), but it's doable.
Well that sucked. Scored 3 runs in 2 games. We all knew how shallow and top heavy this lineup was. In the end, Dana failing to get a bat at the deadline hurt, just like many of us said at the time. Pressly and Hader crapped the bed and that was very predictable. Lots of good in this season, though. Especially the emergence of Brown and Arrighetti. Now we have 4 months to spew ideas and speculate on what they should do to be better in 2025. See you in THAT thread, fellow fans.
Ehh, I think everyone is proud of what we've accomplished. It is perfectly fair game to criticize 2 of the supposedly best reliever/closer who failed miserably. And, it wasn't a one time thing...had seen this movie before. We'll regroup...great run to win the division...but, you don't have to be blind to see severe underachievement with your backend pitching and 2 for 17 at one time on batters 1-5. Gotta see the WHOLE picture. You've pointed up the incredible positive side, nothing wrong with bemoaning the collapse that just took place.
Never felt like this team had what it takes this year. The starting pitching was great but the offense disappeared too often and wasn't clutch enough. I fear the run has ended and the window has closed. We likely won't ever see a run like this again from the Astros. I just hope the Dodgers or Yankees don't win it all this year. Anyone but them.
This was not as bad as losing to Arlington last year or the Braves and the Nationals in the World Series. Fortunately, I couldn't watch either of the games, but it sounds like we just lost to the better team (in a WC series).
Who said anything about firing people? You are clearly thinking this loss is on coaching, which, of course, is part of the equation, but that's not what I was referring to. But we have key guys headed to the FA market. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/houston-astros/contracts?notes
