Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Shakespearean Astros

Sometimes lighting strikes and a great idea emerges in the smoldering ashes. And other times something like this is written.

Brian McCann: "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast" - Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 3

Jose Altuve: "It is the star to every wand'ring barque, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken" - Sonnet 116

A.J. Reed: "It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance" - Macbeth: Act 2, Scene 3

Jon Singleton: "If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not" - Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 3

Alex Bregman: "O, that I were a glove upon that hand" - Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 2

Charlie Morton: "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters" - Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 5

Astros Twitter: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date" - Sonnet 18

Chris Devenski: "Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?" - Romeo and Juliet: Act 3, Scene 2

Los Angeles Angels: "The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape." - Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2

Dallas Keuchel: "He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man." - Much Ado About Nothing: Act 2, Scene 1

Ken Giles: "All's well that ends well"

Carlos Correa: "I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest" - Much Ado About Nothing: Act 4, Scene 1

Yuli Gurriel: "Double, double toil and trouble" - Macbeth: Act 4, Scene 1

Jeff Luhnow: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves" - Julius Caesar: Act 1, Scene 2

A.J. Hinch: "Educated men are so impressive!" - Romeo and Juliet: Act 3, Scene 3

Josh Reddick: "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief" - Othello: Act 1, Scene 3

Gerrit Cole: "Well, for your favor, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it" - Much Ado About Nothing: Act 3, Scene 3

Will Harris: "You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the job" - Much Ado About Nothing: Act 3, Scene 3

Tyler Bauer: "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." - King Henry IV Part 3: Act 5, Scene 6

Justin Verlander: "O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping" - As You Like It: Act 3, Scene 2

Texas Rangers: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here" - The Tempest: Act 1, Scene 2

Hector Rondon: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2

Lance McCullers: "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps." - Much Ado About Nothing: Act 3, Scene 1

Twitter: "I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it." - As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 4

Evan Gattis: "Exit, pursued by a bear." - Winter's Tale: Act 3, Scene 3

Tony Sipp: "Presume not that I am the thing I was." - Henry IV Part 2: Act 5, Scene 5

Astros County: "The insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes" - Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1