***** Official Houston Astros 2026 Season Thread *****

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In reply to Peter Piper • 11:17p, 8/1/26
Peter Piper said:
Always thought Dickie Thon is white. Just saw video about him getting hit in the eye with a pitch and was shocked when I heard him speaking with a Latino accent. The guy is Puerto Rican.
So you thought he was white, then you heard him talk with an accent, then your ears changed your mind about his skin color?

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11:21p, 8/1/26
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And with that LAD doesn't even have to win it all to guarantee we miss 2027. TBH I don't even understand how it's correctable at this point, with respect to all the deferred money. I know "everyone else can do it too", but not everyone has the massive advantages of LA and NYC wrt to media, international markets, etc.

I mean, just preventing future deferred deals would create an even bigger LAD advantage so no way that is a solution. You almost have to renege on some existing stuff to make it work. Enjoy this year I guess.

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In reply to RED AG 98 • 11:27p, 8/1/26
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RED AG 98 said:
And with that LAD doesn't even have to win it all to guarantee we miss 2027. TBH I don't even understand how it's correctable at this point, with respect to all the deferred money. I know "everyone else can do it too", but not everyone has the massive advantages of LA and NYC wrt to media, international markets, etc.

I mean, just preventing future deferred deals would create an even bigger LAD advantage so no way that is a solution. You almost have to renege on some existing stuff to make it work. Enjoy this year I guess.



Solution is to spend your time and money elsewhere. MLB will figure out how to unfckk itself or it will continue to burn.

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11:43p, 8/1/26
No matter what!
Epstein didn't do, you know, the thing...
I'm the rare Astros/Cowboys/Spurs fan. We do exist
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12:20a, 8/2/26
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Pretty sure if Jim Crane started handing out $1 a year contracts with a promise to pay half a billion ten years from now that MLB would've ended that long ago.

Not to mention that all the usual taints like Costas, George Will, and so on would've gone off about the integrity of the game being undermined and so on.

MLB really deserves what it's gonna get. The distance from America's 3rd most popular sport to irrelevancy isn't as great as it seems to think.
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12:41a, 8/2/26
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Let the MLB go on strike. If people would stop spending their money on tickets and $25 drinks they would have to wise up. I can't justify spending $300 a ticket to sit on the nosebleeds at an Aggie game. I'd rather take my boys to the deer lease and let them enjoy the outdoors and watch the game at camp around a fire under the stars. Don't get me wrong I love Houston sports but I'm not about to go spend a ton of money to watch a game anymore when the tv product is much better.
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In reply to Peter Piper • 1:50a, 8/2/26
Peter Piper said:
Always thought Dickie Thon is white. Just saw video about him getting hit in the eye with a pitch and was shocked when I heard him speaking with a Latino accent. The guy is Puerto Rican.

My first job out of college was working at Rice's athletic department. His daughter played volleyball at Rice (100000% smoke show) and he was around a lot. I finally got up the courage to talk to him one day and he couldn't have been nicer.

If the Astros don't lose JR in 1980 and Thon in 1984, you have to wonder what they would have been in the 80s.
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1:57a, 8/2/26
It's easy to blame LA, but Detroit is the one that agreed to trade Skubal to them.
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