Teddy Perkins said:

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When did we learn that Phil Maton broke his hand punching his locker and is going to miss the post season? I totally missed that.

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texasaggie2015 said:

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I'm still fully erect

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JCA1 said:

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David Wallace said:

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I'm surprised that after spending several years in Houston, that Alvarez still needs a translator when doing interviews. No biggie. Just surprised.

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Shouldn't that be "I'm surprised we don't all need translators since it's Yordan's world and we're just living in it."

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DirtyMikesBoys said:

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JCA1 said:

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David Wallace said:

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I'm surprised that after spending several years in Houston, that Alvarez still needs a translator when doing interviews. No biggie. Just surprised.

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Shouldn't that be "I'm surprised we don't all need translators since it's Yordan's world and we're just living in it."

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When I was a BB in my younger years, Kaz Matsui had a translator, Yoshi, despite living in the US for something like 7-8 years at that point. Couldn't speak a lick of English. The Spanish speakers spoke their native language to each other, but were all able to speak English, which I'm sure Yordan can too.

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LonghornDub said:

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Jordan at the Bat
With apologies to Mr Thayer from LonghornDub

The atmosphere was gloomy in our Minute Maid that day,
The score stood 5 to 7 with a half inning yet to play,
Rook Hensley got on base when barely hit by pitch,
But Tuve fanned the fetid air - he couldn't scratch the itch.
So with one on and one out to the plate we did bring up
A rook who hadn't hit a slider since Hector was a pup,
He tried his best with mind and might to hit that ball real hard,
And send that missile whistling through the air and out the yard,
And though his efforts faded to a one base hit it seemed
That all might be forgiven if it hapt like Houston dreamed,
A roar began in someone's throat, and grew both loud and fat,
For Jordan, mighty Jordan, was advancing to the bat.

Their leader, Simple Scottie,had a plan that he thought sound,
He brought his Cy Young winner out the pen and to the mound,
It's left on left he figured, didn't think he'd lose that deal,
Throw fast balls while he flails and fails and shows that he's not real,
We'll take our Game 1 victory and go back to the house,
We'll show these Houston Astros who's a man and who's a mouse,
So Robbie Ray wound up to throw a bullet past our man,
It took no time at all to travel that short span,
And Jordan swung and missed and Scottie loved,
The sound that baseball made as it popped the catcher's glove,
So another fastball seemed to be the order of the day,
It would be the last one offered from the hand of Robbie Ray.

Oh, somewhere in ths favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
That somewhere's down in Houston -

MIGHTY JORDAN KNOCKED IT OUT!

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Ag_07 said:

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For sure...Dusty should get A LOT of credit. He once again pushed the right buttons in a playoff game.

He stuck with JV longer than I would have. Made good BP calls. And the big one that I was impressed with was leaving Yordan in the game after I think it was Diaz that PH.

I thought for sure he was gonna insert him into LF as a "defensive replacement". I was just waiting for it and was gonna lose it.

He gets a lot of shlt but man he's proven to be a pretty good postseason manager.

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LonghornDub said:

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Jordan at the Bat
With apologies to Mr Thayer from LonghornDub

The atmosphere was gloomy in our Minute Maid that day,
The score stood 5 to 7 with a half inning yet to play,
Rook Hensley got on base when barely hit by pitch,
But Tuve fanned the fetid air - he couldn't scratch the itch.
So with one on and one out to the plate we did bring up
A rook who hadn't hit a slider since Hector was a pup,
He tried his best with mind and might to hit that ball real hard,
And send that missile whistling through the air and out the yard,
And though his efforts faded to a one base hit it seemed
That all might be forgiven if it hapt like Houston dreamed,
A roar began in someone's throat, and grew both loud and fat,
For Jordan, mighty Jordan, was advancing to the bat.

Their leader, Simple Scottie,had a plan that he thought sound,
He brought his Cy Young winner out the pen and to the mound,
It's left on left he figured, didn't think he'd lose that deal,
Throw fast balls while he flails and fails and shows that he's not real,
We'll take our Game 1 victory and go back to the house,
We'll show these Houston Astros who's a man and who's a mouse,
So Robbie Ray wound up to throw a bullet past our man,
It took no time at all to travel that short span,
And Jordan swung and missed and Scottie loved,
The sound that baseball made as it popped the catcher's glove,
So another fastball seemed to be the order of the day,
It would be the last one offered from the hand of Robbie Ray.

Oh, somewhere in ths favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
That somewhere's down in Houston -

MIGHTY JORDAN KNOCKED IT OUT!

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