Climbing Tal's Hill » Randy Johnson http://climbingtalshill.com A Houston Astros Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Thu, 23 May 2013 21:11:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Jeff Luhnow has changed the Astros’ direction http://climbingtalshill.com/2011/12/11/jeff-luhnow-has-changed-the-astros-direction/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2011/12/11/jeff-luhnow-has-changed-the-astros-direction/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:58:05 +0000 Alex Sandoval http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=2880 The night Jeff Luhnow was speculated and then confirmed as the new GM of the Astros, I began to search around the twitterverse to see what the reaction would be to the hiring. Honestly, after years of getting laughed at and ridiculed for the good or bad moves Ed Wade made, I expected a negative [...]

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]]> The night Jeff Luhnow was speculated and then confirmed as the new GM of the Astros, I began to search around the twitterverse to see what the reaction would be to the hiring. Honestly, after years of getting laughed at and ridiculed for the good or bad moves Ed Wade made, I expected a negative reaction. My expectation came, not due to Luhnow being a bad choice, but rather because Logan White and Bill Geivett had been seen as big name candidates. To my surprise, in my search all I found was praise by most of the national writers and disbelief from Cardinals’ fans. I continued to search the next day and found the same, praise from all angles about the clear direction the club had chosen. I’ll be honest; I hadn’t felt so proud of the franchise since Gerry Hunsicker was in charge making bold trades for superstar like Randy Johnson and Carlos Beltran. Shortly after Albert Pujols gave the Cardinals’ fanbase another punch to the gut, I searched the twitterverse again to get reaction. I was blown away by the number of Cardinals’ fans that agreed, losing Pujols hurt badly but Luhnow was a bigger loss. It spoke so much about the quality hire the Astros had made and the credibility they had instantly gained.

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]]> http://climbingtalshill.com/2011/12/11/jeff-luhnow-has-changed-the-astros-direction/feed/ 0 Astros defining moment rapidly approaching http://climbingtalshill.com/2011/11/29/astros-defining-moment-rapidly-approaching/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2011/11/29/astros-defining-moment-rapidly-approaching/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:45:44 +0000 Alex Sandoval http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=2781 Every franchise has moments they look back and can clearly see their path being formed. For the Astros, signing Nolan Ryan, trading for Randy Johnson and acquiring Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are just a few of those moments. The next franchise defining moment may be upon us very soon as Jim Crane has begun searching [...]

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]]> Every franchise has moments they look back and can clearly see their path being formed. For the Astros, signing Nolan Ryan, trading for Randy Johnson and acquiring Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are just a few of those moments. The next franchise defining moment may be upon us very soon as Jim Crane has begun searching for his next general manager. Normally, finding a general manager isn’t going to be the flashy organizational move that you’d associate with something so significant but this doesn’t feel like just another hiring. This whole process, since Jim Crane was approved as owner, feels like someone hit the system restore button on your laptop and we are waiting for the factory settings to be setup. I would imagine this is as close to having an expansion franchise without really having one, even more when considering the league change and possible uniform change. So with very little doubt, the first major hiring under Jim Crane will be a historic decision that will either lead the Astros back to relevancy or deeper into obscurity. (more…)

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