Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Dusty Baker admits he prayed to everyone short of Mother Teresa and Mickey Mantle. The Houston Astros manager knew his team was running out of time. With the bullpen spent, with young starter Framber Valdez forced to start warming up, Baker knew the As…
Read MoreBefore what could have been their last game together, the Houston Astros met as a team and promised to play hard for one another. They would fight for their last out — and now, they have at least 27 more. George Springer would not let his Astros career…
Read MoreDusty Baker is not only one with the Houston Astros who likely feels like hugging Jose Altuve, but the manager is the only who actually does it. Baker hugging Altuve as he comes off the field is likely to be the enduring image of these dogged, determin…
Read MoreWith surprisingly little fanfare, the striking new golf clubhouse/education center at Memorial Park is all but completed with landscaping and parking resurfacing to be finished in two weeks, providing time to spare before the PGA Tour players arrive fo…
Read MoreDana Holgorsen promised there would be nights like this. And for the first time in his still short University of Houston tenure, everyone got a look at why Houston billionaire Cougars backer Tilman Fertitta worked so hard to bring Holgorsen to the Thir…
Read MoreEx-Yankee CC Sabathia called him “a clown.” But Carlos Correa is also one of the best players in baseball, the postseason’s version of an epic gamer. When the pressure is at its highest, when the spotlights is at its brightest, Correa…
Read MoreIf the Houston Astros are the supervillains that the rest of America wants to think they are, they’re definitely much more Thanos than Danny DeVito’s Penguin. These October Astros are something to fear, capable of great destruction. Heck, e…
Read MoreJust because you got what you wanted, doesn’t mean you have to be a jerk about. Yes, Bill O’Brien is finally gone, kicked out of the Kirby Drive stronghold he methodically built for himself, adding more and more power to the point where he …
Read MoreCarlos Correa is not Derek Jeter. But he’s gaining on him. With Correa having another one of those games on the big stage that makes you think that maybe the 26-year-old shortstop is the young star the Houston Astros really cannot afford to ever …
Read MoreIt turns out that reports of the Houston Astros’ demise have been greatly exaggerated. Houston’s modern baseball dynasty is very much alive — and winning. With seemingly the entire sports world outside of Houston rooting against them — incl…
Read More