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Astros Take a Step In the Right Direction
The Astros finally make a smart decision in late July!! Supplemental pick, RHP Ross Seaton inks a lucrative deal with the Astros. Does this means things are changing in the front office??
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August 01, 2008
Discuss
Error of my ways
Astros GM Ed Wade is either incredibly stupid or incredibly genius. In the interest of playing devil's advocate, we're trying to find evidence of the latter...
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August 01, 2008
Baseball Knowledge 101: DIPS > ERA
The Astros are awful, irrelevant, and just easy to make fun of having passed the trade deadline. Instead, we're focusing on objective baseball knowledge -- which just makes the Astros look even worse/inept. Today we're focusing on why DIPS does a better job at evaluting true pitching performance -- which ERA woefully fails to do. Why does it matter to you: it makes you a...
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July 31, 2008
Fear and Loathing in Houston
As the deadline clicks closer, the Astros continue to squander this valuable opportunity.
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July 31, 2008
Baseball Knowledge 101, cont.: ERA and Rate Stats
An explication on why ERA fails to capture what it's even trying to capture. Valuable for fantasy baseball accumen or being a more discerning fan in general.
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July 28, 2008
Baseball Knowledge 101 - Wins (Suck)
An explication of why Wins are possibly the most useless statistic in baseball.
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July 27, 2008
Baseball Knowledge 101 - Introduction and Syllabus
The Astros are irrelevant at this point, unless you just like kicking a man when he's down. So we want to focus our attention to a more productive endeavor. Join us as we begin a lengthy series explicating the baseball knowledge we've derived from learning about sabermetrics.
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July 25, 2008
John Kerry Ain't Got Nothin' On Richard Justice - Why Sports Writers Matter
The Astros are in the basement of the NL Central with little of no hope for the next few years of being anywhere else. While we can certainly ridicule Ed Wade and Drayton McLane, perhaps we should point the finger at the beat writers who have defended them and sold their lies.
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July 24, 2008
Trades, Pads and Compensatory Picks
What does a team with a barren farm system, with little in young talent on the major league level do to begin their trade deadline moves? Trade for a 31 year old starting pitcher. That's what. A different spin on Astros' GM Ed Wade, and the roster changes he's made in his first year on the job.
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July 23, 2008
Astros become Wolf's Pack
Sheer idiocy, we thought so at first, but after a minutia of consideration before rushing to publish, the boy at Dome-Dogs give the Randy Wolf deal their seal of approval.
However, we have now changed our tune, Ed Wade, Drayton McLane, and the entire Astros organization are just doomed to be idiotic.
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July 22, 2008
Unfounded optimism?
The Astros had some high hopes going into this season and have vastly underperformed. While we held high hopes for the team, a look at their payroll allocations should have had us all writing them off from the start.
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July 21, 2008
Bring on part deux
Second Half wish list for the Astros and MLB as a whole.
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July 16, 2008
'Stros First Half Review
The Dome-Dogs boys go all physiology on ya, preview the Home Run Derby and do a pretty thorough review of the Astros first half offensive numbers.
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July 14, 2008
Examining the Wizard: Long Balls and Luck
A look at the inflated HR's that Roy Oswalt has allowed in 2008, using HitTracker data, reveal that maybe the Wizard has just caught a bad break in the 1st Half.
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July 11, 2008
Enough is enough
Collusion rumors aside, why hasn't any signed Barry Bonds?
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July 10, 2008
Is Miguel Tejada Fatigued? Or Are We Just Lazy?
A more thoughtful discussion of the rapidly aged short-stop's recent struggles.
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July 10, 2008
Is There Anything Cecil Cooper Can't Screw Up?
Reliever usage is one of the few actually impactful decisions a manager makes for his team. Like just about everything in his job description, Cecil Cooper has botched this one too -- poor Doug Brocail.
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July 09, 2008
Beane strikes again
We continue our admiration of this deal, in spite of its common disdain. This time we look at NL Central rival, the Cubs, motivating factors for this trade and are left scratching our heads.
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July 09, 2008
The NL Central Gets Cut Throat or Why I love Billy Beane
A quick, outsider's view on why this deal looks like it'll work in Billy Beane's favor. Therefore, why the Cubs are idiots. Seriously, they just must be cursed.
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July 09, 2008
Examining the Wizard: Diagnosis
A look at what Roy Oswalts injury means for Roy Oswalt and the Astros as an organization.
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July 08, 2008
Ed Wade Makes a Pretty Lousy Scape-Goat
As the fingers start pointing in Houston as to who should be blamed for the Astros' misery, Ed Wade is drawing most of them. Yet, holds the least amount of blame.
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July 07, 2008
How the Astros Line-Up
Everyone loves to quibble about line-ups, so we decided to add some fuel to the fire using the Baseball Musings line-up tool.
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July 02, 2008
"Fans" Say the Darnded Things
You've been there. You're at the ballpark and the Jack-@$$ behind you won't stop prattling on about things that don't even make sense, while the morons he's with nod and approve as though the guy was the Dhali Lama. We'll come read about our experience recently and share your own.
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July 01, 2008
HALF WAY!!
We take stock of the Astros' present, disect the past, so we can discern what their future might hold.
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June 30, 2008
Searching for Intelligence -- Still
As the Trade Deadline inches ever closer the Astros' are prime sell candidates. Unfortunately, the Drayton McLane doesn't think so. Even worse, the beat writers think that's a good idea
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June 28, 2008
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