Back in the old days, the 2020 Houston Astros were scheduled to play two Opening Days: one at their park on the first day of the season and one in Anaheim for the Angels' opener. At the first, the Astros would likely have been booed by some share of their fans, those who were ...
Scherzer didn’t appear in the last few weeks of the regular season or the first two rounds of the postseason as he was sidelined with a teres major strain in his right shoulder. He returned for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Astros, allowing five runs in ...
As flawed as this country is, itdoesstill stand for something. There’s a reason why, when I look out from the F Train in the morning and I see the Statue of Liberty out in New York Harbor, I feel something. A lot of it is bullshit, but we are supposed to be a beacon of libe...
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Of the 61 departed long-tenured managers prior to the end of last season, just 18 were guiding a new team at the outset of the following campaign. Many of the others retired, like Mack and McGraw, while others returned after a break of a year or two, with Bruce Boch...
Before the end of the season, I’d like to see his knuckleball dropping a few more inches and him getting back into that number one starter role we need him to be to overtake the Dodgers. But you get the point and so does my leg as I need to move this laptop a few inches off ...
MVP George Springer, Jose Altuve, and Justin Verlander led the Houston Astros to their first World Series title in seven-game fashion over the Dodgers. The result had seemed unthinkable only four years prior, when the Astros had gone 51-111--the team's worst ever regular-season record. Thou...
“This middle part of the season was when all our local guys came to see him play, and they either saw him play at 50% with below avg draftable tools/skill/performance/ etc, or they didn’t even get to see him play,” Pierce writes. But by the end of the season — aft...
Scherzer didn’t appear in the last few weeks of the regular season or the first two rounds of the postseason as he was sidelined with a teres major strain in his right shoulder. He returned for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Astros, allowing five runs in fo...
Dusty Baker, MLB outfielder, 1968 to 1986, current Astros manager:"I was accused of making up stories about Chicago, about the hate mail that I got, the anthrax [threat], the letters that I got. The FBI coming into my office from the hate crimes division. I was accused of making tha...