Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Gimme five bees for a quarter we’d say
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Onions, belts, and style
*at the time.
per Chandler Rome on twitter:
Yordan Alvarez has a “pretty significant” left ankle sprain that will keep him “out for a while,” Joe Espada said.
2nd tweet:
Yordan Alvarez remains on the Astros’ active roster. Asked whether he would go on the IL, Espada said: “did you just hear what I said? This is going to take some time. Listen, one day at a time. I’m not going to give you days, weeks, what we’re going to do next.”
Doesn’t necessarily mean anything given Astros history reporting on injuries but I’m glad to not read the words “tear” or torn” or “broken” in the update. That gives me hope that he could play again at some point this season.
Astros like to wait a few weeks before finding those.
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That’s pretty testy for Joe.
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He’s a few injury related questions this year, I’m sure he’s tired of them. They still have to be asked and answered though
Damn Mariners already up 2-0 with no outs top of one.
They’re never going to lose again. Need to avoid them until the ALCS.
Pretty wild that they are getting an MVP worthy, historic season out of Raleigh and it’s just enough to catch up to the limping Astros.
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Brown, Valdez and Alexander will be the pitchers against the Mariners this weekend. Hopefully Framber pulls his head out of his ass and remembers how to pitch. We need him badly this series.
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Framber needs to spend the night at on the mound looking out at the left field foul pole to reset his mind. He is not in a good place mentally right now.
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Well that’s new for him.
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I wonder if his impending free agency and his poor performances are fueling a downward spiral. He seems the sort who could be standing on the mound wondering how much that last hit (or worse, error) cost him on his big payday.
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After watching framber for years… doubt his “thinking” goes month(s) into the future.
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This is Espada commenting on the return of Paredes:
“I think where he’s at right now, we are in a position where we feel good about it being sooner rather than later,” Espada said.
That’s some mighty fine managerial gibberish right there.
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It makes perfect sense to me.
“And no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna keep me from bringin’ him back, dad gummit!”
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One of the few former pro YouTube channels I occasionally watch is that of former pitcher Trevor May. He does an occasional “ask Trevor” thing where people ask him random questions, most, at least the ones he features, are pretty good questions around “how does this work for Big Leaguers?” kind of thing. On his latest, he’s asked how return from the IL works. In other words, what goes into determining when a player is ready to come back from injury. He said it was different for different teams, but the interesting part was he said when he played, the Astros (Jeff Luhnow and James Click) were known amongst the players in the league as a club who rushed guys back without much concern for how the players felt. He said “I don’t know what they’re like now, but that was the reputation they had back then”.
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