When I saw Springer's and Altuve's on camera last night, it shows the state of the team. Both have a non-jovial mood more like an extinction of a season look. We are done if our monsters don't wake up.
To be fair they don't have a lot of guys to choose from. Bagwell can't, Ensberg & Lane are busy coaching, Bell's somewhere on a boat (mother****er), Alou's on his horsefarm, Berkman has brunch buffet plans...Tuffy Rhodes would have been fun.
No s**t right. Wilson and Blum were already in the building so I get, but how in the f**k did they pull Luke Scott? Did they just call random Astros under 50 and ask if they were busy on Sunday. Speaking of which, how in the hell did they decide on Preston f**king Wilson for the postgame show anyway.
Getting swept at home is a bad look. They absolutely need to take one today or it is curtains. It is the bad vibes for picking up a closer with "baggage" to say the least Hope the impossible doesn't happen and they somehow end up not in the playoffs. Can happen, they only have 5 games or 3rd place team and there are only 2 spots for wildcard.
Our offense was struggling before that trade. We need to get healthy and Hudgens needs to get his crap together.
You mean like they did against the terrible rangers team a couple weeks ago...only to go back on the road and wreck shop in Seattle, LA, and SF?
Ive been on my own personal DL with a Hernia operation last Thursday Anyway, once more, theories abound to whats wrong. Hitting coach, Batters eye, Sun in Leo? Who knows. One thing for sure, events of late haven't escaped the notice of the coaches, staff or players. Getting guys healthy is definitely going to help. Just dont know if we will still lead the division by the time that happens. Hard to imagine the A's as the AL West Division winners. Too much baseball left for predictions on my part. The home/road splits vs the division are pretty scary. Maybe more than any other statistical anomalies ive seen. I can still see things working out just fine for us though. A tight division race going down to the wire isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as we come out on top
Run the bases like you're supposed to and you don't risk a DP (and we likely win the game). You can blame Fisher or whatever, I will blame Hinch because he enables these assholes.
I have a feeling Hinch is really going to stick it to the umpire this time when they **** up for the 4th consecutive game in a row. I've seen him angry and it's not pretty..
[/QUOTE] I think this blaming the Umpires mentality is one of the reasons the Astros continue to struggle. Two choices when you are playing poorly (our run differential has essentially been the same for 2 months so the last 2 months we are an average baseball team and much of that includes long periods we were very injury free) - !) Blame, blame, blame - Ignore the favorable calls and lock in on the ones you swear cost you the game and blame the umpires. Blame injuries. Blame it on bad luck. 2) Own up to your shortcomings and work on them. Sharpen your focus and attention to detail. So far the Astros appear to have opted for Option 1 (Hinch is mentioning umpires more and more in press conferences and bad luck and venting about our bad injury luck). As a leader, we need Hinch to steer towards Option 2 because that is the only way to improve your play. Whining is not a formula for success.
