Apropos of nothing

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Sitting here watching the Angels play their second series against the A’s.

The Astros have actually had a really difficult schedule to start this season.

White Sox 7-18 disaster of a team
Tigers 9-14 ditto
Twins 14-11 1st place ALC
Pirates 18-8 1st place NLC
Rangers 14-10 1st place ALW
Blue Jays 16-9
Braves 17-9 1st place NLE
Rays 20-5 1st place ALE
2 bad teams 5 current division leaders and a 16-9 team.
According to baseball reference the Astros have had the 3rd hardest schedule so far, the next hardest schedule for a team over .500 is the Pirates at 11th hardest.

Being 14-11 against that schedule with the guys were missing is pretty fucking good, actually.

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Yep. Perspective is a good thing.

Beating the Rays with Garcia and Brown and two shutouts sans Altuve and Alvarez should have gotten everyone’s attention.

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10 of the Angels 14 wins have come against the worst teams in their divisions.

5 against the A’s.
2 against the Nationals.
2 against the Royals.
1 against the Red Sox. They lost 3 of 4 against the Red Sox.

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Any loss to the A’s should count double. For anyone.

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They have five VERY hard fought wins!

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Their team ERA is 7.97.

That is not a typo.

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Per mlb.com, it’s actually 8.01.

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Maybe it’s an up to the minute thing. I looked at FanGraphs.

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They gave up 8 runs in 8 innings pitched today, so yeah, that should be it. I think fangraphs updates every morning.

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THAT BARELY MOVED THEIR ERA.

They make the 2013 Astros look like the 2017 Astros.

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To the gentleman’s point:

https://twitter.com/FlyingSaucerHou/status/1651766746951434240

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Dear God.

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I watched the last 2 innings of the Yankees/Rangers game.

2 innings of Dave Raymond was 1.2 innings too long.

Woof.

Yankees 4 Rangers 2

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On the plus side, the Astros move into a tie atop the division.

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The CWS held the Rays to 14 tonight.
The Ray’s RF took the mound for the last three outs.

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I can’t watch their broadcast with the sound up.

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Oh now that’s funny.

Position player pitched for the winning team.

Definitely passing that note along to my Chisox buddy.

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Much like the Astros the last 7 years, a couple of zeros just makes me think, “oh man, some poor team is going to destroyed while this lineup takes their frustration out on them”

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He also homered…
Shades of Othani.

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I lived in the Metroplex for years. I know of which you speak.
For years, until his premature passing, Mark Holtz was very good at PBP.

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