“The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of”
Astros Lineup Tonight @ Oakland
Friday, August 17, 2018
1st Game of a 3-Game Series *
| # | Position Players | Pos | Year | B L/R | BA | HR/RBI |
| 1 | George Springer | CF | 2018 | R | .250 | 19/58 |
| 2 | Carlos Correa | SS | 2018 | R | .258 | 13/53 |
| 3 | Babe Ruth | RF | 1927 | L | .356 | 60/165 |
| 4 | Rogers Hornsby | 2B | 1924 | R | .424 | 25/94 |
| 5 | Ted Williams | LF | 1941 | L | .406 | 37/120 |
| 6 | Johnny Bench | C | 1970 | R | .293 | 45/148 |
| 7 | Evan Gattis | DH | 2018 | R | .240 | 23/70 |
| 8 | Yuli Gurriel | 1B | 2018 | R | .284 | 7/58 |
| 9 | Alex Bregman | 3B | 2018 | R | .278 | 22/74 |
| Pitchers | S/R | Year | P L/R | ERA | W/L/Other | |
| Sandy Koufax | S | 1966 | L | 1.73 | 27/9/317 K | |
| Mariano Rivera | R | 2004 | R | 1.94 | 4/2/53 Sv |
* With a little help from the baseball gods and the Commissioner of Baseball!
Just a dream, but wouldn’t it be great if the Astros could plug in these players (or other past players with similar lofty abilities) into filling the holes made by our current DL list? Even if these “free or fee spirits” came to the Astros under the condition that they would have to leave the team whenever our injured guys came back, it is an understatement that each of these super-subs could help the club a lot in the interim.
With Springer returning tonight to play center, I used the Marisnick DL case to draft Ted Williams for left field. Marwin Gonzalez is too important as our super utility guy to cast him as the uninjured left fielder.
Just a dream, but remember ~ like “The Maltese Falcon” ~ baseball also is “the stuff that dreams are made of!”
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Bill McCurdy
Principal Writer, Editor, Publisher
The Pecan Park Eagle
The Pecan Park Eagle 
August 17, 2018 at 4:14 pm |
In the movie, the ship’s captain, who had been shot and staggers into Sam Spade’s office before dying was clutching a bundle that contained the Maltese Falcon. The man was Captain Jacobi, played by Walter HUSTON (ne Houghston), the father of the film’s director, John HUSTON.
Pardon the attempt at a cheap pun on the name of the Astros’ home city.
August 17, 2018 at 4:36 pm |
Houston ~ The Team and City that dreams are made of ~ with a mild homage to nightmarish traffic when it comes to getting around.
Movie Note: A lot of people remember “the stuff that dreams are made of” as the last words uttered in the movie “The Maltese Falcon.” As you may know, they were not. ~ The last word is attributable to police detective friend Ward Bond in this order ~ as he notices Bogart holding the “black bird” figure at the conclusion of the final plot resolution scene:
Bond: “What is that, Sam?”
Bogart: “…the stuff that dreams are made of.”
Bond: “Huh?”
Then Bogart walks away silently ~ with strong orchestral movie theme accompaniment. It is for the sake of drama that likely, in reality, would have inspired Bond to have added: “Hey, where are you going with that bird piece, Sam? ~ You got to leave that here with me as material evidence.”