Astros president Postolos resigns
George Postolos resigned as president and CEO of the Houston Astros on Monday, returning to sports consulting work in the midst of the team's third consecutive season of struggles.
Postolos worked for seven years with Houston businessman Jim Crane to buy a sports franchise and it wound up being the Astros. He had been Astros president and CEO since November 2011.
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Houston Astros president Postolos resigns
George Postolos resigned as president and CEO of the Houston Astros on Monday, returning to sports consulting work in the midst of the team's third consecutive season of struggles.
Postolos worked for seven years with Houston businessman Jim Crane to buy a sports franchise and it wound up being the Astros. He had been Astros president and CEO since November 2011.
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A Season of Change in Houston
Opening Day has come and gone at Minute Maid Park in Houston. The Astros won 8-3 over their new divisional foe, the Texas Rangers. Yes, that’s right: the Astros are now in the American League, and a formerly neutral feeling between these two teams means so much more now. This is the biggest change that has happened to the Astros this season; however, change, in many forms, is...
This day in 1993: Phillies 3, Astros 1
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.
Phillies 3
Astros 1
WP: Terry Mulholland
LP: Doug Drabek
Terry Mulholland opened the 1993 season with a gem in the Astrodome before 44,560 fans. The Phillies...
J.J. Watt hits home runs during batting practice
The Houston Astros may lose 100 games this season but perhaps they found a player that can hit. J.J. Watt, the reigning NFL defensive player of the year, put on a power display before the teams game on Friday.
Watt hit five home runs according to James Palmer of Comcast Sportsnet Houston. At one point he hit three in a row.
Hitting home runs is not unheard of for Watt as he played...
Griffey says MLB needs to attract young fans
Ken Griffey Jr. says he ''was not shocked'' when baseball writers decided no player should go into the Hall of Fame this year, although he thinks Craig Biggio got a raw deal.
Without specifically mentioning performance-enhancing drugs, Griffey said that ''sometimes a statement needs to be made.'' Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa were eligible for the Hall...
3000 for post number 3000
This post marks the three-thousandth post of this site. And I rarely write quick hit posts, so you have to figure an average of seven hundred words a post. So a decent estimate is that I have written two million, one hundred thousand words. Many of you have read at least a few hundred thousand of them and I am so appreciative that you stop by and read this stuff. To celebrate this...
Who Was The Best Player To Never Win A World Series?
“There are bad ways to win– and good ways to lose. What’s interesting and troubling is that it’s not always clear which is which. A flipped coin doesn’t always land heads or tails. Sometimes it may never land at all…” Is it not quite interesting that humans love to classify everything into black and white categories? It makes it all easier by watering everything down...
Tom Glavine unsure whether he will be elected to Hall next year
Tom Glavine not in the hall? Hard to imagine. Still, the 300 game winner spoke on SiriusXM and questioned his ability to earn enshrinement while appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time.
Glavine expressed disappointment that Craig Biggio was not elected to the hall. Perhaps Glavine sees some familiarities between himself and Biggio. Both played either their entire...
Sorry Craig Biggio, You Weren’t That Great According To The MLB Hall Of Fame
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced its results for the induction of the 2013 class last week. For the 8th time in history no one will be entering the Hall of Fame this year. There were plenty of deserving players on the ballot but those players have been linked to performance enhancing drugs at … Continue reading »
Collateral Damage: Craig Biggio Will Have To Wait For His Plaque
Steve Skinner suggests that Craig Biggio fell victim to the BBWAA's wild inconsistencies.
Analyzing the 2013 Hall of Fame Vote
Houston’s Craig Biggio came the closest in a year with no Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
Craig Biggio says lumping him with PED users “unfair”
Despite receiving the highest percentage of votes, Craig Biggio was not elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Biggio believes his snubbing at the hands of baseball writers has a lot to do with other stars who used performance-enhancing drugs.
Read Biggio's comments and more by clicking through
Watt supports Astros great Biggio for HOF
Say this for J.J. Watt: The guy knows how to endear himself to the locals.
And not just for his otherworldly play on the football field. The Houston Texans defensive end showed up to a press conference Wednesday in a Craig Biggio jersey, saying he was supporting the Astros great in his Hall of Fame candidacy.
"Hall of Famer in my book, man," Watt said. "I wish...
J.J. Watt Sticks up for Craig Biggio
Craig means a ton to me T…
NFL Defensive star J.J. Watt wore a Craig Biggio jersey to a press conference as a tribute to the former Houston Astros star, who fell just short of making the baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday. “I’m disappointed he didn’t make the Hall of Fame,” Watt said. “He was a great, great player,” Watt said. Biggio will definitely get in the Hall...
Biggio takes center stage during Astros' quiet offseason
Ex-Houston Astros star Craig Biggio stole the spotlight while his former team continued to have a quiet offseason. Biggio received the most support of any player on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot, earning 388 of the 569 total votes cast (68.2 percent) and falling just 39 votes short of becoming the first player in Houston's 51-year history to officially represent the franchise...
JJ Watt Supports Craig Biggio
Craig’s the man Juan…
As JJ Watt prepares for the matchup at Foxboro this weekend, he showed support this week for Hall Of Fame snub Craig Biggio. “Hall of Famer in my book”, Watt said
JJ Watt Struggles With 3lb Weights
JJ Watt With Justin Beiber
Who Deserves to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) voted a shutout this year, as no candidate on the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot reached the 75 percent mark for the first time since 1996.
Houston Astros star and first-year eligible Craig Biggio led all 37 candidates in votes with 388 (68.2%), which was just 39 shy of the 75 percent needed. Finishing second was Jack Morris...
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J.J. Watt wears Craig Biggio jersey to presser
Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt showed his support for retired Houston Astros star Craig Biggio by wearing his jersey to a Texans press conference Wednesday. It was announced earlier Wednesday that Biggio fell short of making the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Biggio received just over 68 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers' Association...
The Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2013: Forever Empty, Forever Discussed
The 2013 HOF Class will never be forgotten.
Yesterday, the Baseball Writers Association of America announced that there would be no inductees in the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame class. Craig Biggio led all 37 nominees with 68.2 percent of the vote. Out of the 569 ballots sent in, only 39 of them did not have Biggio’s name on it and those 39 votes kept him out of Cooperstown. The...
New York Times Runs Blank First Page of Sports Section After Hall of Fame Vote
As you probably heard, yesterday was not a good day for retired baseball players. Nobody was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. Craig Biggio, who had 3,060 hits in his career and was a seven-time All-Star
while playing three positions, topped
the ballot with 388 votes, but needed 427 votes to get in. The New York Times ran with it and printed a blank front page of...
Biggio got most votes in year where no one got in
Craig Biggio believes it's possible that he wasn't elected to the Hall of Fame because he was on the ballot for the first time with several big stars linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
Biggio, who has never been linked to PEDs, received the highest vote total in a year that produced no inductions to Cooperstown on Wednesday. Biggio, who is 20th on the career list with...
New York Times runs blank front sports page after Hall of Fame voting (Picture)
The fact that no players were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday has everyone buzzing, and the New York Times came up with the perfect way to encapsulate the hype. On the front page of the “Sports” section on Thursday morning, nothing was printed except a headline that read “Welcome to Cooperstown.”
Most people felt as though Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds had...
The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame vote was a perfect imperfection.
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) got it right in 2013.
The Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF) is not the Hall of Good Guys. (Dale Murphy)
The Baseball Hall of Fame is not the Hall of Milestone Numbers and you are automatically included regardless if you cheated, regardless if you are a bully, regardless if you forget English. (You know the list)
Nor is the Baseball...
J.J. Watt shows support for Craig Biggio after he misses Hall of Fame (Picture)
No former MLB players were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday, but former Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio came the closest. Biggio, whose name has been loosely associated with steroids like almost every other player who played in the 1990s, received more votes than any other player on the ballot but still came up 39 votes short. J.J. Watt was disappointed...
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