Astros Backup Catcher Erik Kratz Ate Shit During The Opening Day Introductions
This really bothers me. This is old Astros shit. This is not the new, improved Houston Astros that I’ve grown to love over the last calendar year. As a closet Astros fan, we’ve suffered enough. We’ve endured our 100-loss seasons. Three of them in a row, actually. But we racked up those No. 1 draft picks, we selected a player who is now one of the biggest studs in the game, we groomed a Cy Young award winner, and we got into the postseason for the first time since the Killer B’s Era. But we didn’t endure those 100-loss seasons for this. Not now. Not after everything we’ve proven since we’ve become a contender again. As the organization who has the privilege of being able to say that they have Carlos Correa and Dallas Keuchel on their team, we can’t have things like this happening. We’re re-establishing the Astros #brand in the eyes of the baseball world, and it’s one step forward, two steps back because of things like this. I say no more.
Also, can we talk about the distance that Erik Kratz got after he hit the ground? Like, is that a fucking Slip ‘N Slide? How do you start falling over here:
And end up here:
He had just left the dugout. He didn’t have that much of a running start. I’ve been studying this like the Zapruder film, breaking it down frame by frame, and it’s seemingly defying the laws of physics if that carpet isn’t lubed up.