What??? You ask? Adam Everett hit a ball to Tal’s Hill, shocking everyone on the Reds as well as the entire crowd, driving in Biggio. He actually beat the tag for an inside the parker, but the ump blew the call, as his vision was obstructed. Adam made an AWESOME freaking slide and Moeller missed the tag. It is really too bad because that blown call cost us the ballgame.
And WHERE, may I ask, was Phil? He should have been out there going all Lou Pinella – I mean how Lou used to be before the Cubs tired him out. Yeh he would have gotten tossed – maybe Cecil would have done a better job… But at least he NEEDED to raise a ruckus, SOME kind of emotion – it looks as if he’s not supporting his team. You KNOW Bobby Cox/TLR would have been out there at the second the out call was made.
And the Astros got exactly FOUR hits off the very worst pitching in the NL. Three of the hits from whippng boys Everett, Ensberg and Biggio. Carlos Lee grounded into a double play with bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th to end the game. Fan faves Loretta and Pence were ofer.
Berkman is looking worse with every AB – he is missing fat ones down the middle, swinging late on pitches he used to crush. This is SAD.
Jason Jennings started off VERY shakily – single, walk, 6-4-3 GIDP, walk, groundout. 28 pitches, 16 balls. I thought omigawd, but he straightened himself out and pitched 4 more very good innings giving up no runs. For some reason, Phil pulled him after 5 innings, just 79 pitches, sending Orlando Useless Palmeiro up to get an out. Pretty stupid – Jennings is a better hitter.
When I saw Rick White walk out to the mound to start the 6th, I looked at Husband and he looked at me and I said – Phil just WON’T learn. Goodbye game. Sure enough, White gives up a double, then a single without getting an out. He gets pulled for Trever Miller, who walks Griffey. Peachy. Now we have bases loaded and so he calls Lidge who gets a K, a RBI sac-fly and a foulout. Game tied.
And the media insists that Phil is doing a good job.
I still can’t believe they actually thought they could make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear with Rick White.
Sigh.
And I’m not even going to talk about his pinch hitting Lane instead of Luke Scott against a lefty pitcher when Scott hits leftys better than Lane. Phil and his indefensible lefty-righty obsession.
Sigh. He had a good pitcher, McLemore, who sat in an unmoving, unused blob in the dugout all road trip because Phil wouldn’t use him. They sent him down this morning after wasting a week of his time and making him miss a start for – WHY??? Then they had a chance to make some needed changes, such as getting rid of Palmeiro and Moehler and bringing up basically ANY minor league hitter, who HAS to be better than Palmeiro and bringing Randolph back up. As well as either releasing White or putting him back on the DL.
I understand that Phil thinks that Palmeiro is – now what were his words in his interview on 790 – Palmeiro is one the best hitters ever – just a classic hitter. I can’t put it in quotes because I was too shocked, but that is about what he said.
Dear Lord.
Serious changes need to be made and I do NOT mean releasing Adam Everett – he’s too valuable, Mendoza Line and all.
Sigh
Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, MLB
The pain is too great.
I’m not watching again until they win.
BTW, for a long time, no one in the entire Major League had grounded into more double plays than Carlos Lee. The only reason four people are in front of him now is that no Astros are ever on base when he comes up, since Astro hitters can’t hit water falling out of a boat.
I got to watch the game last night, courtesy of the Reds TV network up here in Ohio. Good god, the ‘Stros look bad. I know this is not news, but haven’t not seen them and just read about the suckiness, I was still amazed. A new manager would be a start, although no guaranteed fix when the whole team sucks like a brand new Hoover. Is it too early for “always next year?”
yeh i know about carlos lee and the GIDPs
sigh
and about the not hitting – i like george kings line in the NY post (about pettitte’s homies) – they couldn’t hit sand if they fell off a camel
sigh
i wish i could say something more but truth is i got NO idea what causes slumps or how to get out of them. but i KNOW that guys can and DO have slumps that last all year and the next year they are their old selves.
sigh
the national media are starting to talk about the stros basically trading off the whole team
BUT
they always talk like berkman, roy and carlos don’t have COMPLETE no-trades.
i am HOPING the problem will get better when biggio FINALLY gets the rest of those painful 27 more hits, can sit and the rest of the guys will relax and play
Watching the Stros right now is pretty much a study in frustration.. And to think a little over two weeks ago I bought that whole mlb.tv package so I COULD watch the Astros!
Hey, I bought DirecTV’s Extra Innings for $139 just to watch the games. Seems like not such a great idea, in retrospect. It would feel better if they would go on a winning streak. But when you get outscored 66-16 over 8 games, ya gotta ask yourself, “Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, PUNK?”
Um, no, not really, officer.
I just about went crazy when I heard John Lopez criticize the decision to send Everett. If you don’t send him, Ausmus gives you what – a 20-25% chance of driving him in. And Jennings gives you about a 10-15 % chance. I send Everett every single time. It’s a no-brainer.
It looks like I need another moniker, what with another Gary in here
.
Gary/G-Man.
I can’t take much more of this!
Can’t someone stop the bleeding?
My heart has always belonged to Houston – cannot devote any adoration anywhere else – sorry. That is just the way I am.
But the heartache is really unbearable – way too much to bear for a this girl to bear.
Can someone just go smack Garner upside the head and then the other side of the head. One good smack deserves another.
Or what, maybe a some choice offerings to the baseball Gods.
I want a win. I don’t ask for much. Just one win.
I want May gone!
ohio gary,
“look bad” is a very kind way of putting it. this team always seems to have trouble hitting in may and i don’t know why.
sigh
art,
don’t blame yourself
and anyhow, maybe they won’t suck much longer. it IS baseball and younverknow
john lopez is just wrong. in fact adam WAS safe and the ump CLEARLY blew the call. manso does a LOT of dumb sending – he is like waving wendell, jr. – remember him sending andy pettitte home from second on a ball hit to shallow center and pettitte was out by 50′