KirkLazarus

Altuve, outside of his hitting and even then he loves to swing at a bat ball, is not a good ball player. Consistently makes mistakes on the base path, subpar arm and subpar defense. That contract is going to be an albatross down the stretch. To think I thought he was going to reach 3,000 hits :lol:

This sounds like they think that women and minorities are 'cheaper' to hire, racist as frick :lol:

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Based dusty

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Dusty has never found an arm he didn't think he could make worse

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But they were right there without even trading those guys is my point. Not trading Tucker and Whitley weren’t the reason they didn’t win 2 in 3 years. Hinch over thinking and their absolute inability to drive in RISP at home in a World Series are the reason.

Agreed Whitley and Tucker don’t look like the untouchable guys that Luhnow was touting them as yet. I still think Tucker can play at this level and succeed. Whitley I’m out on, maybe expediting him to the big league roster and him working with Stromm the rest of the year unlocks something in him.

But Luhnow did go all in last year. He got Greinke who threw incredible down the stretch and shoved in his last three postseason starts and left game 7 with a lead. He gave up 4 dudes for Grienke that were touted and could have helped the team long term so he wasn’t playing for the future last year.

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You are right about them not having any effect on almost winning, I do agree there. Hinch is to blame when you get down to it.

As for the Greinke trade.I think he saw those players the way many now see Tucker and Whitley. Expendable.

I know its a Monday morning quarterbacking and I'm annoyed about Verlander lol. I'll still watch, still love the Astros, but I'm not going to allow my heart to get broken again :lol:

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No you didn’t he was 9 outs away from winning another one just months after not making those trades.

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I know, I was in the front row behind the 1st base dugout. Last year was the chance and then like you said, Hinch fricked it up.

And neither of those players that he refused to trade, look as if they are ever going to contribute anything meaningful to the Astros organization

It's almost impossible to win more than 1 in a span of 3 years. They almost did it. I still rooted for them and thought they could win, just felt as if something was going to go wrong somewhere.

Go back and look at my posts if you can find them, I was saying the same thing 2 years ago. Go all in, hope you win more than 1. Don't play for 5 years down the road.

Nope, the run is over and it was alot of fun, downhill from here boys. Actually it ended when Luhnow wouldn't give up Whitley and Tucker but thats neither here nor there.

It has to be nerves, I think the same thing. They have to be overthinking it. There is no way all these people are this bad

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im happy that we can get back to more important matters, like booing the astros

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Whats the excuse this year when the Dodgers shite the bed?

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