I was trying to think of WHICH title to use for this here game -
In Which The Rays And Astros Play An Incredibly Long 9 Inning Game And Both Starting Pitchers Are Lousy And It Takes A LOOOOOOONG Time And Am I Glad We Are In The NL And This Hardly Ever Happens Because The Games Was WAYYYYYYY Too Long Lasting Like An Hour Longer Than Usual At Like 3 Hours And 40 Minutes And I Really HATE AL Style Ball
In Which Bud Norris Is Handed A 4 Run Lead In The First And He Blows It
In Which Bud Norris Strikes Out 10 And Coughs Up 3 Home Runs And Only Lasts 5 Innings Because It Takes Him Like 7 Pitches/Batter. AGAIN!!!! And What IS It With That Boy He Just Cain’t Throw Strikes????!!!!
In Which I Realize That Every Single Astros Pitcher, IF He Goes To 0-2 On A Batter, Will Throw A Ball On The Next Pitch
In Which The Astros, The Worst Team In The NL, Score FIVE Runs Off David Price Who Hadn’t Given Up More Than 2 In Any Of His 9 Starts vs The “Powerhouse/Superior” AL
In Which Brad Mills Had Better Tell Hunter Pence That If He Tries To Steal Again, He’s Gonna Make Him Wear A Tutu For A Uniform
In Which Houstonian Carl Crawford Easily Steals 3 Bases On Quintero, Who, By The Way, Wears The Sombrero Tonight
In Which Pedro Feliz Defeats My Plan To Get Him Out Of An Astros Uni By, For Once, Not Grounding Out Weakly To Third, But Hitting A 3 Run Homer Into The Crawford Boxes Which Turns Out To Be The #1000 HR Hit Here At The Box By An Astro Which Means Chris Johnson, Hitting .380 And Slugging .740 Is Gonna Hafta Rot At AAA JUUUUUUST A Bit Longer
In Which Brian Moehler Faces Four Hitters, Gives Up 2 Runs And Gets No Outs (Here And I Thought He Was Only Supposed To Be Used For Mopup) And The Loss
In Which Hunter Pence Hits A Home Run Over The Tracks
In Which Chris Sampson Gives Up 3 Runs On 4 Straight Hits On His Birthday Then Gets The Next 3 Guys Out On 5 Pitches
In Which Lance Berkman Gets The Night Off And Cory Sullivan Is Used As A Pinch Hitter Instead – But Hey, It’s Just Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic
In Which Michael Bourn Serves His 1 Game Suspension For Supposedly Bumping An Ump Who Blew A Call When He Was Gonna Get The Day Off Anyway Because He’s A Lefty
In Which, Speaking Of Berkman And Bourn, I Realize That They Are The Only 2 Hitters On The Astros Who Have A Positive RCAA – Of +1; ONE!!! WHOOPEEEEE!!!! Cuz The Astros Have 4 Of The Worst Hitters In The NL On RCAA (Lee, Pence, Feliz And Matsui – And Yeah, He’s Gone But The Stench Still Lingers)
In Which I Watched A Game Where Rays Fans Outnumbered Astros Fans And Realized How Many People Associated With The Rays Organization Are Either Houstonians Or GOOD Ex-Stros – Prolly Why Drayton Was Hiding – Didn’t Wanna Hear Jim Hickey Get Cheered And His Own Self Get Booed Because Us Astros Fans Got To See Why The Rays Are By Far The Best Team In The Major Leagues And The Reason Is Gerry Hunsicker Who Drayton Threw Out On His Ear
In Which I Realize That if Drayton Hadn’t Dumped Benny Zobrist And Mitch Talbot For 3 Worthless Months Of Aubrey Huff That We Would Have A Second Baseman Who Is Actually As Good As Biggio Was As Well As A Permium Pitcher And We Wouldn’t Have Had To Waste 5 Mill On Yet Another Ex-Phillie
In Which The Astros Go To 15-29 And Only Need One More Loss In Milwaukee On Tuesday To Randy Wolf, Who Is Sucking Out Of Dodger Stadium To Get The Tombstone Re-posted In The Chron…
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB, Tampa Bay Rays
In Which The Astros Finally Score Six Frickin’ Runs In A Single Game And Still Lose
So what you’re saying is that Jeff Keppinger is the best player the Astros have right now. Who’d a thunk it?
wags
i was gonna do that one too…
mark,
well, actually, michael bourn is the best player on the team if you do bat + glove + baserunning. and he’s the best player if you limit it to bat
lisa
Pence is fast catching Bourn in the best hitting catagory. He has been coming up with more and more of the big hits in the Astros wins. He leads the team in 3 major catagories TBs, Hrs, RBIs, is a close second to bourn in runs scored, tied for second in total hits and has about the lowest strikeout ratio than most 0f the Regulars.He is 3rd in BA of the regulars He has had the biggest hit in 5 of our victories.
jimbo,
yep, pence IS finally getting his stuff together. and, unlike bourn, he has some serious power. and you are not the only one who noticed – i hear tell that there are more than a few teams intetrested in trading for him…
Yes lisa you are so right, thats what i believe will happen, and like always he like many of the others before him will not really blosom until after he leaves.
So much for no team signing Kaz Matsui, he became a free agent yesterday and then the Rockies promptly signed him to a minor league contract.
jimbo,
it seriously grinds my ass to look around the majors and see all the ex-stros who were tossed out as minor leaguers/young players exchanged for crappy Old Guys. and it sure nuff doesn’t look as if this gonna be changing any time soon.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
jared,
the rox can have him back. he did refuse an assignment to our AAA club – but then again, he wouldn’t have had no chance vs The Great Matt Kata