jake marisnick

1 min read 2021-05-10 23:21:10

Cubs 5 Pirates 6. Just relentless rotten luck.

Started right off the bat, as they say. Kyle Hendricks took 34 pitches to get thru the entire 9-Pirate lineup in the first inning, which included

2 min read 2021-02-12 08:05:00

Times for the 2021 regular season schedule were announced and we get to see George Springer lead off another season with a bomb, this time against

9 min read 2021-02-03 00:15:37

So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged,

13 min read 2020-09-14 11:00:26

I’ve determined that the only way I’m going to get through all of my backlog (especially given my dismal posting rate of late) is to just start

4 min read 2020-02-15 13:27:00

There were actual baseballs being thrown. So here's how this is going to go: New baseball stuff will go at the top, sign-stealing stuff will go

3 min read 2019-12-06 11:22:00

Okay, some news! That doesn't involve sign-stealing! For now!*The Astros traded Jake Marisnick on Thursday to the New York Mets for two prospects. In

4 min read 2019-09-26 18:16:00

The Astros beat the Mariners 3-0 for the second straight night to improve to a franchise-high 104-54 and are 50 games over .500 for the first time in

3 min read 2019-07-30 19:35:00

Thanks to Flick for taking the Hot Links yesterday morning while I was out pretending I'm not in my late 30s. Seeing Spoon was a bucket list item for

4 min read 2019-07-12 20:00:00

I missed the Hot Links yesterday because it was my daughter's birthday, and she was so pumped to eat All The Sugar in the World that I had to stop

4 min read 2019-07-09 07:48:00

It was the first day of the All-Star Break yesterday, featuring the Home Run Derby and Alex Bregman. Bregman hit 16 home runs.*Let's do an off-day

6 min read 2019-07-08 10:22:00

Well that was something. According to Win Expectancy, when Bregman struck out swinging in the 5th, the Astros had a 5.3% chance of winning that game.

3 min read 2019-06-21 19:58:00

Okay, well...no one was reinjured. The Astros dropped their fifth straight game, eclipsing a season-high they set on Wednesday. Houston is 48-28

4 min read 2019-06-16 19:25:00

It's Father's Day. Shoutout to you dads who, like me, are just doing their best. We sometimes do a decent job, sometimes we crap the bed. But we're

3 min read 2019-05-25 18:41:00

Good news/Bad news. Yes, the Astros won, but it looks as though George Springer will spend a decent amount of time on the IL after doing

3 min read 2019-05-23 21:43:00

The Astros got shut down by Ivan Freaking Nova, GIDPd and GITPd all over the damn place, messed around, and lost to the White Sox. Houston is 33-17.