dlance said:Frok said:
October is a nice month for outdoor baseball in Houston but the roof will be shut to create crowd noise. I personally don't think the difference of crowd noise between open and closed roof makes any difference but I know few agree with me.
Dude the noise volume during the WS was intoxicating. You could feel the sound and it was amazing.
CFTXAG10 said:dlance said:Frok said:
October is a nice month for outdoor baseball in Houston but the roof will be shut to create crowd noise. I personally don't think the difference of crowd noise between open and closed roof makes any difference but I know few agree with me.
Dude the noise volume during the WS was intoxicating. You could feel the sound and it was amazing.
Every time there were 2 outs in the inning and the opposing batter had two strikes everyone rose to their feet and it transformed the juice box into the friggin hate box. It was electric and I've never seen anything like it outside of 2010 A&M-Nebraska
spadilly said:
It is louder with the roof closed. That's just physics and dumb to argue against.CFTXAG10 said:dlance said:Frok said:
October is a nice month for outdoor baseball in Houston but the roof will be shut to create crowd noise. I personally don't think the difference of crowd noise between open and closed roof makes any difference but I know few agree with me.
Dude the noise volume during the WS was intoxicating. You could feel the sound and it was amazing.
Every time there were 2 outs in the inning and the opposing batter had two strikes everyone rose to their feet and it transformed the juice box into the friggin hate box. It was electric and I've never seen anything like it outside of 2010 A&M-Nebraska
The closed roof didn't make it electric, but it definitely increased the amperage.Harry Dunne said:It is louder with the roof closed. That's just physics and dumb to argue against.CFTXAG10 said:dlance said:Frok said:
October is a nice month for outdoor baseball in Houston but the roof will be shut to create crowd noise. I personally don't think the difference of crowd noise between open and closed roof makes any difference but I know few agree with me.
Dude the noise volume during the WS was intoxicating. You could feel the sound and it was amazing.
Every time there were 2 outs in the inning and the opposing batter had two strikes everyone rose to their feet and it transformed the juice box into the friggin hate box. It was electric and I've never seen anything like it outside of 2010 A&M-Nebraska
That said, the closed roof is not what made it electric and the extra few decibels isn't why we won the WS. Outdoor baseball in good weather is unbeatable. BTW was that Nebraska game played indoors?
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Alvarez has risen to the top of MLB.com's latest American League Rookie of the Year poll. He received 40 of 42 first-place votes to end Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe's season-long run in the top spot.
1) Yordan Alvarez (40 first-place votes): His 51 RBIs in 46 games are the most in Major League history, surpassing the previous mark of 47 in 45 games by Ted Williams in 1939. Alvarez's 17 home runs in his first 46 games are an Astros record, beating George Springer's mark of 11 in 45 games, set in 2014.
2) Brandon Lowe (0 first-place votes)
3) John Means (2 first-place votes)
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Somewhere around the fifth inning, Josh Rojas began to gaze around the ball park and a particular thought dawned on him.
"I realized I'm in the big leagues right now," the outfielder said after his major league debut. "This is pretty crazy."
It took him a couple innings to settle in before making a big impression.
Rojas had a pair of hits in his first big league game, including an RBI single in the seventh to make it 8-6. After his inaugural base hit in the sixth -- just ahead of Ahmed's homer -- the keepsake baseball was tossed into the dugout, where Eduardo Escobar playfully pretended to throw it into the crowd.
Rojas was acquired last month in the deal that sent right-hander Zack Greinke to Houston. Rojas became the 10th Arizona-born player to suit up for the Diamondbacks.
"Really nice approach. Unfazed. Good heartbeat. Not glossy-eyed. He looked very comfortable," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "To be relaxed, and do what he did today was very, very impressive."
Just more evidence that the Stros system under Luhnow for evaluating talent combined with the analytics side is probably the best in baseball. What a fantastic problem to have -- hope it never goes away.Agnzona said:
Perfectly timed article.
"Astros talent overload a blessing and a curse".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/08/13/houston-astros-jd-davis-mlb/1994648001/
You had more than enough chances, Puddin'Quote:
"There's so many guys like J.D., like Ramon Ramon never even got an opportunity, and now he's just killing it it's just getting to prove what you can do," says White.
"I would never say anything bad about them. But it's hard to prove yourself."
Opportunity is not the only ample thing he's got.Beat40 said:
Was going to say, I was ok with his comments until he said it's hard to prove yourself.
Out of all the guys interviewed, he was the one who had ample opportunity.
If he would have come to camp in shape and mashed the ball, he'd still be with the team.
MelvinUdall said:
He should be embarrassed that he looked like a middle aged dad with 3 kids who has limited time to exercise.