Two things that need to happen for us to win it all

We have been blown out in extra inning games... so...

 

Rally round the family……with a pocket full of shells. No one outside of H-town wants to see the Sign-stealing scandal Stros’ win the whole…..f’in……thing. But to quote the late great Lou Brown, “Me, I'm for wasting sportswriters' time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give 'em all a nice big shitburger to eat”

 

You could make the argument that the Astros did that last year and lost due to ... TB fielding better than the Astros.

 

Base running is the team's weakness... Not just lack of stolen bases but the stupidity at times

 

Careful, Buck is going to get you. Stats have been posted here a few times that the Astros are among the best at having the fewest outs on the bases.

 

I know it’s been posted somewhere here but it’s just not the case with the data. We just watch them every day so it “feels” worse then it is. This team is somewhere in the top 8 of fewest outs on the bases.

 

LOL exactly however it’s true. I mean I’d rather be number 1 but alas

 

BP, lack of an ace, anything other then base running

 

The stats are clear…

take away Altuve’s 89 base running errors and the Astros are the best ever in this category.

Instead of being a dork and fact checking me, try getting laid.

 

I feel like in every series, on both sides, there's seemingly always one guy that comes up in critical situations. If that player comes through more often than not, his team will prevail.

Wonder who it'll be this year? Last year, it felt like it was Yuli who had a ton of guys on and just couldn't get the big hit in the ALCS. Maybe Correa or Tucker this year. Let's hope they can get some RBIs to break open tight games.

 

Have the winds of fortune bounce the Astros way. At this stage, you have to be both good and at least a little bit lucky to win.

 

Siri/Meyers/Chaz/Stubbs (whoever is on the bench) can steal you a base and take 2 on a single, score from 1st on a 2B, tag for a base, and do whatever you want. You can't change Altuve, he will do dumb ****, we should all know this by now, but otherwise: Brantley/Alvarez/Bregman are very good but slowed. Yuli is slow but smart, Carlos is fast and smart. Tucker is great.

The bbs-wide consternation about baserunning is, well, stupid.

 

Can we get a damn ALDS thread already? @Castor27

 

Just to be safe let's add play better defense and make better coaching decisions

 

This would be wwe nwo crazy but how awesome would it be if the Astros kept a trash can in their dugout and banged on it after every homerun.

 

Yes that's a foregone conclusion after today.

Key is the starters going at least 6 innings and preferably 7 to keep from exposing our weakness, the pre-8th inning bullpen.

McCullers did a great job of that today, with seeing Maton for only 1 out. Then it's on to Graveman and Pressly.

Then the next thing is for Graveman and Pressly to be nearly perfect. We can't feel too good about that after watching today. Hopefully that works itself out

 

That's returded.

 

We should have the entire crowd bring trashcans and bang on them in unison. We'll make the vuvuzela sound angelic.