***Official Houston Astros 2023-24 Offseason Thread*** [Staff Warning - OP]

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cc10106
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Don't forget that the Astros don't just cheat; they also mean to harm their opponents now.

Obviously Chas was trying to break Ty France's arm, and Abreu meant to put Adolis in the hospital.

I get that embellishing is part of sports fan culture, but it sure does bring out the crazies often.
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Wabs said:

tjack16 said:

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iBrad said:

No one would care because they didn't beat any media darlings along the way and MLB isn't going to use them to set an example. No one really cares about Scherzer getting caught the first time.
And that's the point -- isn't it?

The Astros were forced to wear it for everyone.

Cheating has been rampant in baseball in one form or another for years. IT's just a matter of when the league or fans choose to care.


That can't be true. I was told by many that the Astros are the only team in sports to have ever cheated.
That's what all non-Astros fan say and the way they act, but they for damn sure know that it's a bunch of BS. I think the Astros' continued success just fuels it more. It helps soothe their butthurt and provides a convenient (yet weak) excuse for their team losing to the Astros.


My favorite is the rangers fans on TexAgs who condemn us Astros fans for supporting a team who cheats when last I checked a certain college football team that we all support got caught cheating in the 80s and 90s
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Farmer1906 said:

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Or that fact that the fans who claim moral high ground ignore the fact that

A) The Rangers clubhouse was the epicenter of steroids in baseball in the 80s and 90s and
B) They have in the past and currently still employ a guy who ran over a guys head while fleeing the scene of drunk driving accident

The hypocrisy is comical
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Farmer1906 said:

Farmer1906 said:

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Jesus staff has an extra large vagina today
Fightin' Texas Aggie and Sam Houston State Bearkat
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I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.
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agproducer said:

I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.


Hoping Aggie basketball and baseball makes it a more enjoyable offseason
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tjack16 said:

agproducer said:

I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.


Hoping Aggie basketball and baseball makes it a more enjoyable offseason


If you are banking on Aggie sports to provide you good vibes, boy do I have news for you.
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^
Truth
I love Texas Aggie sports, but I love Texas A&M more.
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Mathguy64 said:

tjack16 said:

agproducer said:

I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.


Hoping Aggie basketball and baseball makes it a more enjoyable offseason


If you are banking on Aggie sports to provide you good vibes, boy do I have news for you.
I know, but doesn't it seem like this guy is worth believing in? He's already taken us higher than anyone else ever has.



Lots coming back
Lots of good HS talent
And some big-time transfers

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Mathguy64
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I'm just saying. 40 plus years of having your heart ripped out, you come to realize it's Groundhog Day and aggie sports are Bill Murray.
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iBrad said:

A lot of it depends on when a whistleblower decides to call out a particular team and how the league responds. It was a similar situation in the NFL with the Patriots and their sign stealing.

But as the Patriots and Astros both proved over time, their "cheating" was not the reason for their success, as the playing field was a lot more even than either league wants to admit. Each league did its best to keep it isolated to one team, rather than uncover the true extent to what was going on.

And despite the punishment and rule changes, both teams kept on winning.

This is what irks me about the continued sanctimony about the Astros success. First, I don't recall seeing anybody claiming the Patriots success bears a lingering stain over their cheating. Second, it's beyond clear that everybody in MLB had their own form of sign-stealing that was prohibited by the league but nobody is trying to put an asterisk on the Red Sox for their cheating in 2018 or accept that the reason Manfred gave the Astros players immunity is because they would have turned in the rest of the league and burned it to the ground.
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No one else bounced the Yankees from the playoffs like 16 times and made them an irrelevant franchise.
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I'm just as big of an Aggie baseball fan as I am an Astros fan. The Ags are coming into 2024 loaded.
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Yep!
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Mathguy64 said:

tjack16 said:

agproducer said:

I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.


Hoping Aggie basketball and baseball makes it a more enjoyable offseason


If you are banking on Aggie sports to provide you good vibes, boy do I have news for you.

I am far more optimistic about it (and relatively interested in it) in baseball and basketball than in football.

Apparently Buzz is supposed to have a good team this year, that snuck up on me. All they really have to do is get us to February and Schloss can get us to the Astros.
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Mathguy64 said:

tjack16 said:

agproducer said:

I CANNOT WAIT FOR MARCH!

I'm struggling without the 'Stros.


Hoping Aggie basketball and baseball makes it a more enjoyable offseason


If you are banking on Aggie sports to provide you good vibes, boy do I have news for you.


To me if Baseball makes a super or goes to Omaha + basketball wins a game in the tournament I'm good.

And both of those are not only possible but likely
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texasaggie2015 said:



Pretty telling on the relationship we all suspected he and Dusty had
tjack16
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Oof
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And here I was thinking they had boatloads of money from being noncompetitive and having such a low payroll for so long.

What a CF
cc10106
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Back to the cellar you go, San Diego.
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Make them an offer on Snell. Or Soto, or Tatis Jr or anyone else on a high payroll.
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Isn't Snell a free agent this offseason?
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tjack16 said:



Oof

Go into debt to miss the playoffs. Incredible
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Mathguy64 said:

Make them an offer on Snell. Or Soto, or Tatis Jr or anyone else on a high payroll.
imagine a lineup of

Altuve
Soto
Bregman
Yordan
Tucker
Abreu
Diaz
Chas
Pena/Dubon

That would be a 2019 level lineup!
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Wabs said:

I'm just as big of an Aggie baseball fan as I am an Astros fan. The Ags are coming into 2024 loaded.
Can we create an Astros fan aggie baseball thread...I love this thread but trying to keep up with aggie baseball on other thread wear me out. Plus they create new threads for every game dont they?
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Soto is a FA after next season I think. Wouldn't mind adding him for next season. He's going to be playing for his next contract.
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:

Wabs said:

I'm just as big of an Aggie baseball fan as I am an Astros fan. The Ags are coming into 2024 loaded.
Can we create an Astros fan aggie baseball thread...I love this thread but trying to keep up with aggie baseball on other thread wear me out. Plus they create new threads for every game dont they?


There's a separate thread created for each game. Lance Uppercut usually starts them, and he does play by play on there so you can keep up if you can't watch. Pretty sweet deal.
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Wabs said:

Soto is a FA after next season I think. Wouldn't mind adding him for next season. He's going to be playing for his next contract.


I thought they signed him to a long deal
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MosesHallRAB04 said:

Wabs said:

Soto is a FA after next season I think. Wouldn't mind adding him for next season. He's going to be playing for his next contract.


I thought they signed him to a long deal


They may have, I don't know.
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Wabs said:

MosesHallRAB04 said:

Wabs said:

Soto is a FA after next season I think. Wouldn't mind adding him for next season. He's going to be playing for his next contract.


I thought they signed him to a long deal


They may have, I don't know.

I don't think they did. He certainly hasn't played well enough in his time there to justify a big contract
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According to Spotrac he's on arbitration this year and next. ufa after that.
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You know Juan Soto is 21.
Mathguy64
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Snakes are aggressive out of the gate. They need to be. That's their game.
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