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Rangers have been super streaking the last several months. Hopefully the 3-game streak to houston is their only losing streak of this post season.

If the rangers can get a couple arms for the bullpen there's a really good chance we run this series back next year. I'm hoping so. This was as exciting of a series as I can remember in my lifetime, and I felt that way BEFORE we put it away last night.

Yeah, they are. Not much in the farm system. I still think there’s a good chance we run it back next year. The year after will be interesting for y’all

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What a rollercoaster season. Get out to a huge lead, then literally every all star on the roster (and there were a bunch of them) gets hurt. Blow the huge lead, losing something crazy like 16 of 20 or something, to the point where they’re almost out of the playoff picture. Get hot, somehow build an almost an insurmountable lead going into the last series of the season, and blow that two. Then get hot, but blow a 2-0 lead to go down 3-2 to the stros, only to take two in houston and advance to a World Series in a year where 80 wins would’ve been a nice improvement. This team has given me heartburn, but I’m loving every minute of it!

Shoulda never started him to begin with. I’m okay with the first game, but this went exactly the same.

lets go to the casino

as a kicker, I will say this... if you pass up the opportunity for your kicker to kick 30-40 PATs throughout the year, you better hope like heck you don't end up in a playoff game needing a 25-yd fg to win as time expires.

I looked up the numbers as soon as you made that statement, as that one line was basically the first line of your statement. it certainly stood out. At this point I don't care much about the astros one way or another beyond being in the Rangers' way, but I do get tired of their fans pretending that it wasn't all that big of a deal what they did, which is a constant. Or pretending that the cheating didn't make a difference in an attempt to legitimize the championship, which is exactly what you did there when you said that the cheating didn't change the outcome of that season (also a constant among many stros fans). I'll always see it the same way that everyone who doesn't cheer for the astros sees it, and you'll always see it the way that only an astros fan can see it. It is what it is. None of this takes away from the fact that astros have had a damn good team for the better part of a decade, and that they've been good without cheating for the majority of it. It's been a heck of a series. Hopefully my boys come out on top.

He knew about it. He won games because of it. He got rbis because of it, and he scored runs because of it. He won an AL MVP because of it. And from everything I've read and seen, he didn't cheat "as much." But even if he never got a single trash can text message, he benefitted too much from it, and was complicit through his silence. As for the documentary, I haven't watched it, and doubt I will, but every other source online still says that they did in fact use cameras throughout 2017, the 2017 post season, and part of 2018.

Simple logistics says this is a false assertion. In the 2017 playoffs the astros... went 2-0 at Minute Maid against Boston, 1-1 away. 4-0 at Minute Maid against NY, 0-3 at Yankee stadium, and 2-1 at Minute Maid against the Dodgers, 2-2 at Dodger stadium. 8-1 at home, 3-6 on the road. Despite the fact that was still a very good team without the cheating, and that they were good on the road, the astros won two series 4-3. All of this to say that if the trashcan effected the outcome of even one home game against new york, it's the only reason they advanced to the world series, and if it affected the outcome of even one home game against the dodgers, it's the only reason they won the world series. Given that the astros won four 1-run game and a 2-run game at home during the 2017 playoffs, I'd say its basically an impossibility that the trashcan didn't change the result of a single game, which is the only statistical way that it would be possible that the cheating "didn't help them win a world series." Disclaimer: I had to go look these numbers up. I'm not so hellbent on hating the astros that I have this stuff memorized.

Every team in baseball had steroid junkies, including the astros. During that era it was essentially a level playing field, because EVERY team had multiple players juicing. It's called "The Steroid Era" for a reason. If it came out that the rangers were all using steroids, and only a couple of other players in the league were, and they won a world series, I would look at things differently. Likewise, if all 30 teams were going to extreme measures in 2017 to steal and relay signs (not your typical runner on 2nd situation), I would look at the whole situation differently.

Is there some proof out there that Garcia has cheated? Even any discussion of it being a possibility? Because if not, this is a ridiculous question designed to once again try and minimize the seriousness of Altuve's (and the astros as a whole) mistakes.

It's certainly a mixture. Great players can only overcome so much poor coaching, but in the same breadth, great coaching can only elevate marginal players so far. The players are the most important part, because you'll never win without them, but the coaches will play an important role.

the only reason I brought it up is because I keep hearing all the astros fans talking about how classless Garcia is for celebrating a home run, while in the same breath acting like Altuve is the flawless messiah of baseball. In that instance, it's worth noting that, despite Altuve being a great player and a great guy, he's done far worse than Garcia has ever done.

I suppose a loose argument could be made that success leads to more success, so if their first success was tainted, then future success is attached to that. I don't really agree with that with the stros. they've kept this going mostly on the shoulders of drafting well and developing players through their farm system, and have kept it up despite losing big name players along the way.

that cuts both ways. The astros have hit signficantly better than the rangers with runners on base this series, and their bullpen has been a significant factor in 2 of the 3 astros wins. Seager and Semien have been awful with RISP. but that's just part of playoff baseball. Throughout any season guys are going to have 10 game stretches where they aren't that good.

I'm completely over it. It's the reason they're not my "second" team anymore, but I don't care anything about it at this point, and didn't care much to begin with. It wasn't like they stole a world series from my team. And they're undeniably a great team who's been on a great run. I just think the revisionist history that some (most) Astros fans like to use is funny. Your post is a perfect example, where the "classless" Garcia should learn a thing from Altuve, who in the eyes of many Houston fans, has never done anything wrong. I respect the crap out of his game, and he's a good guy, but there's too big of a mark by his name for you guys to keep lifting him up as the symbol of all that is good and virtuous with the game.

these types of comments kinda crack me up, and I've seen a lot of them. Garcia pimped the biggest homerun of his life, Altuve was complicit in one of the bigger cheating scandals in the history of baseball. I guess it's all relative to who you root for. I didn't like Garcia's antics, but come on. Altuve does play the game hard, and he's clutch, and seems like a genuinely good guy, but that said, there was nothing classy about what went on in 2017-2018.

I feel the same way. Would rather let Dunning get the start. although if he can get through 3 or 4 innings without giving up much then dunning can take over.

No worries. Hadn’t seen the results yet today or I would’ve self-reported

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Jeez

How did they score 12 in OT? Return an INT or something?

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