18 Thoughts on the First Half

The 47-34 Astros have exceeded all realistic expectations so far. They have the best record in the American League, three months after not a single national expert at ESPN, CBS Sports, Grantland, Sporting News, SBNation, Yahoo! Sports, or Sports Illustrated projected them into one of the AL's five playoff spots. For those prognosticators who broke it down by division, nobody placed the Astros higher than fourth place in the AL West, and for those who broke it down further by record, Keith Law's 78 wins was the high number.

July 3rd-5th - Astros @ Boston: Series Preview

by Mike Mitchell

On Friday night, the Astros (47-34) will open the second half of their schedule with a three-game series at Fenway Park against the Red Sox (37-44). The Astros lifetime record of 6-17 vs. Boston, and 2-9 away from home, combined with the Red Sox platinum-franchise mystique, can provoke an impulse of mid-market inferiority in even the most confident Astros fan.

The 2015 Red Sox, though, are a dumpster fire of the highest order.

One True Outcome - An Introduction

Well, here's another wordy fanboy moron who wants us all to read his thoughts.

More or less, strawman.

Last summer, my wife and I got married and moved to the greater Houston area. Prior to that, I had spent the first 28 years of my life