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• After Release From Astros, Rick Ankiels Career is Probably Over

  
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  One day I’ll enjoy telling my grandchildren about Rick Ankiel. Provided that society hasn’t crumbled, the sun hasn’t exploded, and human beings are still the dominant creatures on earth. (Today, while thinking about “financial planning” I realized that most of my thoughts kept coming back to ‘what are the ...
  1 week ago

• Astros Release Rick Ankiel

  
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  The Astros released outfielder Rick Ankiel , tweets Brian T. Smith of the Houston Chronicle .  The team had designated him for assignment Monday. Ankiel, 33, had an all-or-nothing approach this year that led to five home runs and 35 strikeouts in 65 plate appearances.  A former second-round pick of the ...
  1 week ago

• Bear or Bull: Save Money. Live Better. WalMarte.

  
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  Welcome folks, to another round of Bear or Bull. The series is so awesome, I am able talk about animals AND baseball(s). And this week, I guess Walmart. Word. And while the best play on words I could think of involves Starling Marte and one of the cornerstones to an eventual Corporatocracy, well, you know something ...
  1 week ago

• Fantasy Baseball Bigfoot Alert: Jimmy Paredes

  
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  By Houston Astros (https://twitter.com/astros) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons While it is difficult to recommend any Houston Astros on the bright side as whole the Stros arent much  worse than the Angel at the moment. The Astros do have a cornucopia of young talent from Chris Carter to J.D. ...
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• Luhnow Discusses Astros Moves

  
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  With an 8-24 record so far this season, the Astros have played down to the incredibly low expectations of most preseason prognosticators, matching the 120-loss pace of the 1962 Mets.  They made a series of moves yesterday , designating outfielders Rick Ankiel and Fernando Martinez for assignment and ...
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• Less Cavalier Is Clay

  
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  Last week, Jack Morris said Clay Buchholz was cheating. Not surprising that something doesnt smell right with the fingers of a guy named Buchholz. Morris is probably mad because Clays not pitching to the score. I dont usually subscribe to rumors, innuendos and urban legend...though a Three Wolf Moon t-shirt will ...
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• Astros DFA Rick Ankiel

  
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  The Astros brought in outfielder Rick Ankiel this past offseason with hope he could provide veteran leadership while adding some much-needed offensive production. He was a positive presence in a young clubhouse, but the bat never came around.Houston Official Site
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• The Astros just DFAd Rick Ankiel.

  
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  The Astros just DFAd Rick Ankiel . Out of 65 plate appearances this season, hed homered, walked, or struck out in 43. Read more...        
  2 weeks ago

• Astros Designate Rick Ankiel, Fernando Martinez For Assignment

  
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  The Astros announced that they have designated outfielders Rick Ankiel and Fernando Martinez for assignment via team press release. In related moves, Trevor Crowe and Jimmy Paredes have been called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City, J.D. Martinez has been activated from the disabled list and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Astros Designate Rick Ankiel For An Assignment

  
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  2 weeks ago

• Nice sports stories - by Posnanski, Culpepper & Vitez

  
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  Three different sports stories Ive come across in the past few weeks stood out as being well-written pieces about stories that are just darn... nice. Joe Posnanski is a writer who often produces work in this category of nice (and being incredibly prolific, he also produces lots of other great work) and he wrote ...
  2 weeks ago

• AL Notes: Ankiel, Mariners, Twins, Ramirez, Ortiz

  
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  Rick Ankiel could be nearing the end of his well-documented but still-surreal path through baseball, writes Joe Posnanski of NBCSports.com . Evoking the poet Dylan Thomas ( "rage, rage against the dying of the light ... do not go gentle into that good night" ), Posnanski notes that Ankiels journey has taken one ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Advanced Scout – Houston Astros

  
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  Recently-demoted Brett Wallace (Photo: Samara Pearlstein) After winning two of three against the Athletics, the Boston Red Sox (14-7, 2 games ahead in the AL East) welcome the newest member of the junior circuit, the Houston Astros (7-14, tied for 4th in the AL West), to Fenway Park for a four-game series. The Red ...
  3 weeks ago

• Recap: Astros @ A’s Game 16

  
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  Wrap: Oakland 7, Houston 5. A’s 12-4 (1st Place, 2 games ahead) The A’s certainly like playing the Houston Astros as they complete their second sweep of them within a month. This game was put in the A’s win column early with a six run first inning. Try as they might to give it away later the A’s hung on. 7-5 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Recap: Astros @ A’s Game 15

  
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  Wrap: Oakland 4, Houston 3. A’s 11-4 (1st Place, 1 1/2 games ahead) The A’s keep on rolling against Houston. So many times teams get screwed and blow a season by losing to teams they ought to have won against. Take for example the 1995 California Angels, a team interesting for several reasons including just how ...
  4 weeks ago

• Deep Impact: Hey, Careful Man, There’s A Beverage Here!

  
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  Wow, assembling this weeks list of players made me dizzy with enthusiasm. No. Im lying. To help write this post, I have a hired a shadow writer sorta speak. Readership meet my shadow writer -- Vodka. Vodka, meet readership. What did you say? Drink more? Silly you. Youre already empty! Lets get this thing started ...
  5 weeks ago

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