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Astros haters — and there are still plenty of them in baseball — love to bring back up the electronic sign stealing scandal of 2017. Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward isn’t worried about the Astros doing anything against the rules though. He&#…
Read MoreAledmys Díaz’s superpower is slipping into whatever role the Astros need him to play. He always brings a high level of professionalism to whatever that task is. But the problem with being the ever available fill-in is that sometimes you’re …
Read MoreTrey Mancini found the Crawford Boxes in the first at-bat of his first start as a Houston Astro. He hit two home runs and racked up five RBIs in his second start. On Sunday, he did something even better. He worked “Mo Money Mo Problems,” Bi…
Read MoreDana Holgorsen doesn’t do false hype — and the University of Houston football coach has little patience for BS or nonsense of any type. Holgorsen doesn’t praise guys just to praise them. Far from it. So the fact that UH’s very direct …
Read MoreThere are many struggling malls, places that are a shadow of themselves, still just sitting there as almost dying relics of shopping past. Memorial City Mall is not one of them. It ranks second to the Houston Galleria in sales per square foot. It is st…
Read MoreThe New York Yankees are still great at making noise, even all these years after George Steinbrenner. And if you listen to sports TV and Twitter, the Yankees won the day before Major League baseball’s trade deadline by landing Frankie Montas, the…
Read MoreThe New York Yankees are still great at making noise, even all these years after George Steinbrenner. And if you listen to sports TV and Twitter, the Yankees won the day before Major League baseball’s trade deadline by landing Frankie Montas, the…
Read MoreThe music’s loud and the shouts are louder in the visitors clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. The Seattle Mariners are enjoying the rarest of things — a comeback win against the Houston Astros, the team that torments them the way the New York Times S…
Read MoreIt’s easy to think of Justin Verlander like a shark — the nearly ageless Greenland kind of shark to be specific. Especially if you’re trying to get a hit off him. Or worse yet, score more than one run. But this pitching predator, one who ba…
Read MoreMost Major League veterans will feign that things like the trade deadline do not bother them. The standard responses center around not thinking about it. Or baseball moves not being part of their department. But Jose Urquidy does not play those kinds o…
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