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HOUSTON — One can argue — with plenty of conviction — that these flawed 2023 Houston Astros never make it to Game 7 of the American League Championship Series without Dusty Baker’s steadying, calming hands on the wheel. And maybe that’s wha…
Read MoreA lot of small Texas towns are named for their most famous attribute. Such is the case with Mineral Wells ― the small town located about 20 miles northwest of Weatherford. Any guesses as to what Mineral Wells (population 14,902) might be famous for? If…
Read MoreProving you can be stylish, social, and smart all at once, Interabang Books — co-owned by prominent book lovers Nancy Perot, Catherine Rose, and Lori Feathers — will bring two of America’s most celebrated writers, Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken, …
Read MoreARLINGTON — Yainer Diaz just starts jumping. The Houston Astros rookie knows that Jose Altuve has done it again. The Most Clutch Postseason Baseball Player of All Time flipped another gigantic game completely upside down, changed everything with one sw…
Read MoreARLINGTON — One hundred playoff games is a crazy number. Especially in a baseball world where Mike Trout’s played three playoff games in his life, Don Mattingly only got five in his entire career and even Ken Griffey Jr. had to be satisfied with …
Read MoreARLINGTON — Michael Brantley smiles on the baseball field only slightly more often than a total solar eclipse occurs. But after making the defensive play of these playoffs, after making his battered 36-year-old body move like it’s 10 years younge…
Read MoreA recent 48-hour trip to Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal with my family delivered the recharge I didn’t know I desperately needed. And while I’m typically type A in every way, I decided on the less-is-more approach when planning with kids in t…
Read MoreHOUSTON — Every swing Yordan Alvarez takes is packed with meaning, powered by the possibility that he’s about to transform a game. Or maybe The Game itself. For the Houston Astros’ 26-year-old star is swinging on a higher plane this postsea…
Read MoreHOUSTON — After calling his unlikely postseason life “awesome” at the interview dais, wonder rookie Evan Carter returns to the visitors clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. He’ll pack up some food from the postgame spread into a styrofoam c…
Read MoreDavid Ortiz, the jovial larger-than-life Red Sox turned national baseball commentator, jokes that he’s been to Minute Maid Park so many times for big playoff games that he’s “a Houston citizen.” There definitely is something fam…
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