Aren’t all yall excited!!! We get the number one draft choice again!!! Just like the Nats did a few years back, only they got 2 superstars and we didn’t/aren’t. I mean, even the Rays didn’t get number ones 2 years straight and neither did Pittsburgh. Or KC. Or Milwaukee.
And the deciding game was an Astros Special. Terrible pitching, fielding, hitting, errors galore, unmade plays galore.
Astros left bases loaded in the first. Gee, left bases loaded you say? Imagine that. 9 Ks in 7 innings? 2 GIDP and 7 or 8 RISP stranded? What a surprise. Everyone not named Scott Moore looked bad with the bat. Brett Wallace is having a TERIBLE September. Well, so is everyone else, I shouldn’t point fingers.
Abad had a 1,2,3 inning, but somehow hurt his little self (not used to pitching 4 innings straight, you say?) walking a batter and in came Froddy again. You might could kind of call it starting on short rest. Anyway, he gave up a – ahem – triple – ahem – to right. Scott Moore is not a RF, so you can say a better fielder just might could have done a lot better. But the FB down the middle to the next batter was entirely his own darn fault. Except for a solo homer to Yadi Molina – and that one was right down the middle too, he threw 3 more scoreless innings. Had no idea we had a long man. Don’t guess Froddy knew it neither.
Jose Velez gave up 2 runs because of TWO screwed up plays on successive sac bunts. Yeah – once Matheny saw that we couldn’t handle bunts, he ordered .300 hitter Jon Jay to lay down another and wouldn’tcha know it. Bases loaded, Matt Holliday singles to center and Bogu, of all people, makes an error and bobbles the ball and it’s men on second and third, 2 runs in. Not Bogu’s fault, just the advance to second. But Valdez shut it down, then Rhiner Cruz and Chuckie Fick pitched a scoreless.
Official attendence was 12, 584 – yeah, surrrrre. There weren’t 5 K people in the stands and most of em were Cards fans.
Now that Edgar Gonzalez and Abad are injured, wonder who on earth they are gonna use to start. Enerio Del Rosario? No wonder they are pushing Bud Norris to start. Although it might could not work in his favor – remember what happened to Brandon Backe who thought he was taking it for the team…
Oh yeah – news. Julio Daniel martinez is getting hand surgery and is out for the year. Like Brandon Barnes, he’s supposed to play winter league ball. He’s had The Year From Hell. And leads the Astros in RBIs which tell you all you need to know about RBIs. Fernando Martinez can’t hit or field.
The reason this team has won as much as it has this month is, in my opinion, due to all the extra relievers and uninjured bench players. Most of the time, we really didn’t have a 25 man roster. Not that this team could have been even decent if no one was injured, mind.
Just got back from watching game 1 and 2 vs Cards in person.
Abad was indeed pretty sharp the first 1.3 innings until an owie took him out. And Froddy pitched the 2nd like he didn’t REALLY expect to be pitching so soon although he righted himself in the last 3-4 innings save for giving up one more run after that. Then it went downhill from there.
Game 2: Harrell definitely didn’t have his best stuff and issued a staggering five walks plus a IBB. Two defensive gems limited his damage to just 2 runs..could have easily been 5-6 runs. His line of 5IP, 7 hits, 6 BB wasn’t pretty. Astros got nothing going against Garcia the entire game.
Card fans apparently outnumbered us Astros fans in the stands. In fact, the Aramark personnel in the stadium outnumbered Astros fans too.
The Shiner Bock was still overpriced at 9.50 per cup considering that you could get a six pack of the same at Jak’s for less than that.
Game One attendance had to be 8,000, give or take at most…even though it was “officially” 12K..don’t ask me HOW I know. I was also told by Dad (who goes way back with the Astros organization..he used to be in the Colt.45 organization) that the Astros are losing money even with their deeply truncated payroll.
I don’t see how Crane is gonna make it as he already has a boatload of debt already. The interest on that debt is pretty staggering as it is.
I wanted to add this from the ESPN box score for the Astros-Cards game Tues night:
Attendance 16,943 (41.3% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
Horse pucky.
It couldn’t be THAT many. 10K…MAYBE.
Eric
eric
the phony attendence figures don’t fool me at ALL. my eyeballs work JUST fine.
i will believe a man got his own self pregnant before i will believe that a ML owner is not making money. let alone LOSING money. the amount of income from MLBAM plus networks plus revenue sharing plus FSSW is already more than payroll. now if you mean that crane is also trying to pay off debt, that’s another thing.
got NO idea how the SOB is gonna sell season tickets next year and he better hope that whoever he hired to replace the fired pam gardner is anywhere near as good as she was. he’ll pack the house for the Popular Teams, all right, but the rest of the time, it’s gonna be empty, like this. and will be for years.
nolan ryan is gloating.