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Will the Texas Rangers please <i>PLEASE</i> knock off the Astros?Was it inevitable? One won the American League West, while the other led it for most of the season and was forced to go the wild-card route to make it to this stage. The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros share a state and are bitter rivals and will face each other in the postseason for the first time...

Women have always understood who Trevor Bauer is(Trigger Warning: sexual assault, choking, violence during sex) ...

The Cubs quietly tolerated Jared Porter’s sliminess for yearsJared Porter is out as general manager of the Mets, and that’s good. The new ownership in New York promised accountability, and after ESPN’s detailed report Monday night on Porter’s harassment of a reporter with dozens of text messages, including a dick pic, Porter was given the heave-ho on Tuesday ...

Astros Accomplish Bare Minimum, Retract Statement Smearing <i>Sports Illustrated</i>'s Stephanie Apstein [Update]

The Houston Astros have finally retracted their statement which claimed that Sports Illustrated’s Stephanie Apstein was “fabricating” her story about former assistant GM Brandon Taubman yelling “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so fucking glad we got Osuna!” at a group of female reporters after the team’...

The Astros Are Not In The Apology Business

“We talk internally about being on the ‘bleeding edge,’” Astros GM Jeff Luhnow told the McKinsey Quarterly in June of 2018. The exceedingly collegial two-part interview was a homecoming of sorts for Luhnow, who worked at the management consulting giant for five years before going into the baseball b...

This Is The World Series MLB Deserves

Joe Buck is about to have the most difficult day of his professional life, because unlike his Jose Altuve home run call from the American League Championship Series, he must speak....

Astros GM Jeff Luhnow Keeps Digging And Digging

Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow came before assembled members of the press Thursday evening in D.C., to face the music for now-fired assistant GM Brandon Taubman’s locker room taunts directed at three women reporters after his team’s ALCS-clinching victory, and for the Astros publicly and falsely...

Astros Fire Brandon Taubman, Now Need To Fire Whoever Smeared Stephanie Apstein [Update]

The Houston Astros have fired assistant GM Brandon Taubman for conduct that “does not reflect the values” of the organization, according to a team statement released on Thursday. ...