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An unusually smiley Justin Verlander keeps looking up to the Minute Maid Park stands as he’s interviewed live on national TV. To a luxury suite where Verlander’s wife Kate Upton and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter Genevieve are wavin…
Read MoreYordan Alvarez is so physically imposing, so prone to feats of superhuman baseball strength that he sometimes is reduced to being talked like some modern folklore hero. A Paul Bunyan for a Taylor Swift era. People watch Alvarez pulverize baseballs and …
Read MoreChas McCormick still remembers the defensive talk, the little things talk, that Carlos Correa gave the Houston Astros early in McCormick’s run with the team. Correa has a way of making his talks hit home and all these years later, with Correa a M…
Read MoreJim Nantz does not do spring break. The voice of so many of sports’ biggest moments never had time for such things. But Nantz is already plotting his 2024 spring vacation, marking it in permanent marker and letting his reps know that this one is …
Read MoreWhen it is over, when another division title is theirs, when their long presumed American League West usurper Texas Rangers have been banished to an endless flight to St. Petersburg, Alex Bregman puts a voice to what many of his Houston Astros teammate…
Read MoreStacy Sneed has always been maddeningly hard to catch. His dad remembers him running around with a football as young as age 4, dodging a horde of relatives. When Sneed graduated to flag football, he made his early pursuers look so silly that some oppos…
Read MoreAfter the defending world champion Houston Astros’ third straight home loss to the 102-loss Kansas City Royals on Sunday, Justin Verlander already seemed to be starting to lock in. Verlander sat at his locker, waiting for the team bus to the airp…
Read MoreParker Jenkins just keeps going, powering ahead, taking one, two, three would be tacklers along for the ride. To lift a struggling offense, sometimes you have to carry a little extra weight. Or a few extra large humans in hulking shoulder pads. Watchin…
Read MoreMauricio Dubon holds his batting helmet high above his head for an extra beat, before spiking it with the force and exclamation of one of those old Tiger Woods fist pumps. This isn’t just a walkoff win celebration. It’s an exorcism. A banis…
Read MoreMartin Maldonado, the pretty unquestioned clubhouse team leader of last fall’s World Series champions, has somehow almost taken as much garbage as Bud Light this season. And sadly, some of it has come from so-called Astros fans as Maldonado showe…
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