Dear Jeezus Gawd,
I am feeling like a Royals fan, only worse.
How about - Wandy Is Royally Clemensed By Both His Offense And Defense. And The Ump, Too, who missed calling Freddy Sanchez out at first in the 6th. Wandy pitched absolutely FANTASTIC and now all we’ll hear is how he sucks and he can’t win from the fans who want Troy Patton up here because he’ll pitch perfect games every time up and win with no run support.
For all yall who think defense does not matter unless we’re talking about Chris Burke, take a look at Lance Berkman making an error (oh YES it was) on Castillo’s grounder and at Mike Lamb screwing up the tailor made 5-4-3 double play in the 6th AND then Luke Scott dropping the single to right that let an extra run score.
And because that idiot homeboy scorer decided to give Castillo a hit to help his 100 BA on an OBVIOUS error, poor Wandy got stuck with 2 “earned” runs in the 6th, and another in the 8th from getting Francoed by Qualls.
Now, we gotta hear how of COURSE Wandy has an ERA over 4, see, toldja he’s no good. Bullstuff. And by the way, props to Jim Deshaies for saying at LEAST 4 times during the game how well Wandy pitched.
We are talking a #5 guy who threw 7 innings – 101 pitches, 70 strikes – 2 BB, 5 H, 7 K, 2 GIDP, 3 “earned” runs and THAT is freaking AWESOME. Ida wanna hear nothing about well, he just doesn’t “know how to win” because it is his teammates who just don’t know how to freaking HIT. They left TEN guys on base during his 7 innings.
BAH!
And the “hitters” most DEFINITELY were, um, offensive. ESPECIALLY Lance and Lee. I am freaking tired about everyone making Burke and Everett and Ausmus into the goats when the 32 million dollars of bat aren’t doing squat. When you can’t hit Tony Gawd-awful Armas, you stink. I mean STINK.
Lance hits 2 little singles and a sac fly. Big deal. I would expect that from the #7 or 8 guy.
I keep hearing how Carlos Lee has all these RBIs. How he’s so “clutch” how he’s such a GOOD contact hitter. Well, there should be a heck of a LOT more hits and RBIs. Check this:
- In the 1st, he grounds out with one on one out.
- In the 3rd, he grounds out with one on 2 outs.
- In the 5th, he grounds out with 2 out, 2 on.
- In the 7th, with 2 on, 1 out, he grounds into a double play.Too bad he didn’t strike out instead of “contact hitting.”
- in the 9th – with the team behind by 4, 1 out bases loaded, he hits a sac fly. Big Deal.
And what REALLY pisses me off is how we are gonna be hearing how Adam Everett is the goat for making the last out with bases loaded. You don’t see HIM getting any 17 mill a year for 6 years for HITTING, do you????
oooooooh, I am STEAMED.
I am just glad it was the Pirates. Yes, that’s right. Glad. For the 2000 fans who actually showed up at the ballpark. Because with the ownership who keeps their 25 mill of profit a year for themselves instead of trying to win, those die hard 2000 fans deserve the few wins they get
Tags: Houston Astros, MLB
take it easy. Just because the Pirates played good solid timely baseball 6 times against the “Stros doesnt mean you have the liberty to take ignorant shots on the Bucs. We’ve suffered year after year after year of losing. This team will be better once the bats finally get around. This is our year our destiny
GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ignorant shots?
IGNORANT SHOTS???
drunken college dude fer SHER, is right.
the ONLY shots i have taken is at the bucs owners, who, by the way, i have NEVER EVER heard a single pirates fans ever say anything about that i could print in a nice G-rated blog like this.
the reason yall have suffered year after year of losing is your crapulent cheap ownership who does not give a rats butt if this team wins or not, just their 25 mill profit a year.
the ONLY reason i have to hope your team does not win – in case mine doesn’t – is because i would hate like poison to see the mcnuttings win anything except tar, feathers and a public horsewhipping. it would be like seeing osama bin laden win the nobel peace prize.
or do you mean my saying that tony armas is a lousy pitcher, which he is, by every stat there is.
Mets will dominate anyway, the only thing both teams need to worry about is how they can make more money, because playoffs and good baseball is not either teams destiny! Not in 2007 anyway!
well,
mets best have some respect for the braves and brewers.
yes, brewers.
and as for making money, the pirates owners get 25 mill a year from mlbam and george steinbrenner and they got ZERO reason to do anything different because they might could take home less money.
the astros owner does very well, thanks to roger clemens for the past 3 years. the fan base in houston is very strong and it is the most popular sport in the city by a LONG shot
Really, the Mets? Wow, just waiting for that pitching staff to fall off, and the bats to cool down some. There’s no way the Mets are going to hit .295 as a team the whole season. Anyway…
Lisa, you are right to be mad. Wandy is pretty good pitcher. He’s better than advertised which is more than I can say for Carlos Lee. He’s definitely not as good as advertised. The Astros signed him to pile up the RBIs, right? He better start.
As for my Padres, Jake got robbed again and the team lose again. That’s the second time he got 16 K’s in a game and the team ended up losing. Why? The team is not driving in runs enough. Same problem you are having.
That only means the bats still have plenty of hits in them, right? Right?
I’m a Pirates fan marooned in Houston so I root the stro’s when the Bucs aren’t around but I just think the Pirates are simply better than the Astros this year.
The Astro staff sucks outside of Roy O, they will struggle to score runs as they have in the past although Berkman and Lee will be fine. It simply isn’t enough.
hi didi!!!
actually it is AMAZING how many pitchers getting clemensed this year. poor wandy must be pretty depressed – 3 very very good starts and exactly 3 losses to show for it. and a bunch of “fans” want his ass released for a AA pitcher.
hi DC!!!
me i root for the bucs fans that all yall can get rid of those dispicable craphead owners yall got.
and so far the stros look awful. but i will wait a bit to pass judgement on the rest of the bucs. these are the same people running the team who signed joe randa and sean casey just last year and the way they scew the players up one side and down the other makes me sad for all yall.
lisa
‘Stros pitchers had a 2.95 ERA against the Pirates and lost all 5 games. That’s pathetic, and the blame goes directly to Carlos and Lance. They’re getting paid a third of the entire team’s payroll and they’ve been worthless all month except for a brief time for Lee (during which we won games — duh).
well steve, looks like you n me the only ones who think that. everyone else busy blaming chris burke and adam everett.