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HOUSTON Astros manager Dusty Baker filled out his rotation for the start of season on Wednesday, tabbing right-hander Luis Garcia to start the fifth game of the season against the Angels on Monday in Anaheim.
By placing Garcia in the rotation, right-hander Brandon Bielak will start the season in the bullpen as one of two long relief options (Bryan Abreu is the other). Garcia, who is ranked as the club s No. 6 prospect by MLB Pipeline, is a strike-thrower, but his stay in the rotation will be probably be short-lived considering the plethora of off-days in April and Jake Odorizzi working his way towards the rotation.
Dave Parker’s memoir ‘Cobra’ points out how MLB can rebuild its cultural clout The one-time National League MVP’s newly released autobiography is an elegy for when baseball was a more visceral game that was elevated by Black star power, which MLB seemed to take for granted.
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April 1, 2021
April 1, 2021
Dave Parker was at least a six-tool player, perhaps even seven, depending on whether charisma and swagger are separate categories. It would have been easy enough for Parker (seen above at the Pirates’ 2019 40th anniversary celebration of their 1979 title team) to write an autobiography that trades on the nostalgia his legend conjures, usually through tweets of the seven-time all-star outfielder wearing a swaggy self-designed T-shirt, smoking a dart in the Pittsburgh Pirates dugout or making a throw from deep in the right-field corner at the Seattle Kingdome to cut down a runner at home plate in the 1979 all-star game, the season of
We know the current Houston tale of woe. I feel like some permutation of Deshaun Watson s trade demands, J.J. Watt s departure, James Harden s successful trade demand, George Springer s departure, and the respective existences David Culley, Jack Easterby, Cal McNair have been the lead for 90 percent of my posts since the calendar flipped to 2021.
So with the anniversary of the Day the Sports World Shut Down in our rear view, and with vaccines pumping away, with restaurants and bars reopening, it s high time we look on the bright of things in sports (until tomorrow.. the anniversary of the DeAndre Hopkins Trade, everybody!) With that positive spirit in mind, I have come to the conclusion that we are not enjoying the fact that Zack Greinke is a Houston Astro nearly enough!
Houston TV legend s new podcast showcases a host of local legends Houston TV icon Dave Ward sits down with some of our city s best and brightest.
Photo courtesy of ABC13 You don’t spend 50 years behind the Channel 13 (ABC13) anchor desk the Guinness World Record for a TV news anchor in one city without making friends. A lot of them.
Dave Ward & Friends is a new podcast where Ward and a well known Houstonian pull up a chair and talk about the city they love. The podcast started last week with former “Luv Ya Blue” quarterback Dan Pastorini. Episode Two will air at 10 am Thursday, March 18 with Ward interviewing Astros Hall of Fame slugger