Every single big hit every team gets against us is meat over the prime part of the plate. We don not make players earn their rewards. We are simply unable to locate anything when need to. Catcher calls for up and in? Low and center.. HR. Catcher calls for outside edge? Oops. Right down the middle. HR.

Our pitchers simply are not good.

Michael Brantley

That guy rocked. pic.twitter.com/7w2a94t2HV

— That Guy Rocked MLB (@MLBGuyRocked) August 26, 2026

CharleyKerfeld said:

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Keep booing you dumb idiots. HOFA GOAT-FA

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possibly the hottest chick in this thread. well done

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SQUARE ALERT: The Colorado Rockies won their 52nd game last night, improving to 52-80. A year after going 43-119, they are one heck of a success story and on pace to lose fewer than 100 games. Picking up that square with their totals are:

JoeAggie1010 4
RED AG 98 6
KAF -2
wessimo - 5
Teddy Perkins 6
Fairview20 3
Mr. Bond - 5
gambochaman 3
rausr - 3
3B Paul 97 4
agenjake 5

KYLE TUCKER: THE .220s ERA
That's right, the richest guy on the most despicable team went 0-for-5 to drop down to a season-low .228 last night. He also left 3 runners in scoring position in a 6-5 loss. In his last 15 days, he is 6 for 40 (.125) with an OPS of .322.

GOAT REPORT:
Jose Altuve's first-inning double was hit #2,490 of his career, tying him for 104th all-time with Fred McGriff. He is 10 away from 2,500 and 27 away from the Top 100 of all-time.

But, let's talk Crime Dog. McGriff was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans' Committee in 2023. You will be happy to know that the Yankees drafted him in '81 then traded him away to Toronto for Tom Dodd and Dale Murray (not Dale Murphy). Tom Dodd went on to play 8 games in the majors for the Orioles. Murray, the pride of Cuero, Texas, pitched 62 games for the Yankees at the end of a solid career, going 3-6 with an -0.7 WAR. So basically, one of the worst trades of all time.
In the 1990 off-season, he was involved in one of the biggest star power blockbuster trades of all time, as he and shortstop Tony Fernandez went to the Padres in exchange for Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar. Seeing as how anyone hears "Joe Carter" and they imagine him hitting a World Series winning home run and the fact that Alomar is one of the greatest 2B post-World War II, it's safe to say the Blue Jays won that deal.
In '93, the Padres traded him to the Braves, which was great, because Atlanta needed elite hitting to compliment its all-time best pitching staff. McGriff played there for 5-1/2 seasons and won a ring in 1995, then got offed to Tampa Bay in its expansion era, where he was fantastic, but nobody saw it, because he played for Tampa Bay. After a f30 HR, 103 RBI year with the Cubs at age 38 in 2002, he hung around a little sadly in his quest for 500 HR. His skills depreciated significantly and he retired at age 40 with 493 dingers. Still, a fantastic career. .284 hitter, .509 career slugging, .886 OPS. Despite all that consistency, he never finished higher than 4th in the MVP race that in 1993.
He was lethal in the post-season. A career. 303 hitter in the playoffs with 10 home runs and 37 RBI in 50 games.

Astros' Flashback: August 27, 1965: In what is called the "defensive play of the century", the Pittsburgh Pirates are hosting the Astros at Forbes Field. Bob Lillis pushes a bunt down the third base line that the Pirates misjudge with the third baseman and the left-fielder both staring at each other. Lillis races around the bases but is thrown at third. How? Pirates' right fielder Roberto Clemente has sprinted across the outfield, picked the ball up, and gunned it to third baseman Walt Bond to tag Lillis out at third.
The Pirates go on to win 10-9. The teams combine for 35 hits in 11 innings. The game features four future Hall-of-Famers: Clemente, Joe Morgan, Bill Mazeroski, and Willie Stargell and two future Astro mangers Lillis and Bill Virdon, the Pirates' centerfielder.

YOUR DAILY CUP OF HOFA

The Astros might let you down every other day, but HOFA is there to pick you up.

The problem is Joe is managing this thing like he is 20 games above 500 and has a 10 game lead in the division
Giving everyone playtime, resting guys, blahblah
Same exact thing as last year

You are in the a fight for your life…play your best, every day gdit

Someone needs to tell Joe that resting guys during the season to have them fresh at the end of it is pointless if they're not playing at the end.

All I do is Nguyen said:

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Michael Brantley

That guy rocked. pic.twitter.com/7w2a94t2HV

— That Guy Rocked MLB (@MLBGuyRocked) August 26, 2026

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I miss Uncle Mike, perfectly in control swing and clutch hitter

Ag_07 said:

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Someone needs to tell Joe that resting guys during the season to have them fresh at the end of it is pointless if they're not playing at the end.

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Yeah the whole resting guys is such a ridiculous trend...now for pitchers I get it with the amount of stress and torque we're now asking them to put on their arms but for everyday players it's absurd.

Diaz absolutely could have helped the team last night but we'll never know because Espada is a dumb ass. If he goes off tonight it will make it pretty clear he sees the ball well in this stadium (and his numbers prove it out) so just a monumentally dumb decision by our manager.

speaking of Altuve...

he has really bounced back in August -- far and away his best month since March/April

24 hits and 8 walks in 21 games -- including 6 x-base hits

OPS holding at .855 for the month

might have just taken a long time for the oblique injury to wear off

gambochaman said:

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The problem is Joe is managing this thing like he is 20 games above 500 and has a 10 game lead in the division
Giving everyone playtime, resting guys, blahblah
Same exact thing as last year

You are in the a fight for your life…play your best, every day gdit

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Now that he had a hot bat game for the first time since we got him, how much are you willing to wager on Varsho getting the day off today?

gambochaman said:

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The problem is Joe is managing this thing like he is 20 games above 500 and has a 10 game lead in the division
Giving everyone playtime, resting guys, blahblah
Same exact thing as last year

You are in the a fight for your life…play your best, every day gdit

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FIFY

I can't think of the Crime Dog without thinking of Tom Emanski's "Mechanics of the Major League Swing" video commercial.

I really wish some of you would stop posting the NSFW stuff on a baseball thread.

Yup. As a woman on this thread it grosses me tf out. I mainly ignore it but when it's every other reply it's hard to.

Yall need to set your account to not autoload pics.

I encourage anyone who who doesn't like the pics to put me on ignore. It's super easy if you have stars. My ignore list is enormous (although no one on this thread) and saves me a lot of stress when I'm on TexAgs.

Or maybe consider toning down NSFW content on a freaking baseball thread?

wehnerhigh20 said:

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Or maybe consider toning down NSFW content on a freaking baseball thread?

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I'm going to PM you so as to not bog down the thread.

I think posting hot girls in a TexAgs thread is major loser behavior.

Go somewhere else on the internet for that stuff.

Dudes being horny together is weird and lame.

ETA - I had to turn off the auto download pics setting due to this thread.

FrioAg 00 said:

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I could lube without them too - but Isn't there a setting that lets you not download pics automatically? And the rule is all those pics are clearly labeled.

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I'm not getting into the grander conversation here, but this isn't a great solution. Every other thread I frequent it's much more convenient to have them auto load.

I could certainly lube without them too, but it is what it is.

And of course multiple people caught and quoted that most unfortunate autocorrect

Mathguy64 said:

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Yall need to set your account to not autoload pics.

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Or, maybe people just shouldn't be perverts.