Honestly not much more, sadly Houston is a front runner town. I doubt a .500record in May would do much besides bring some optomism to the diehards. Another high paid closer for a medicore team is lost money, rather search and develop a cheap arm from the system or draft one like Lidge in this year's draft.
i completely disagree. the astros have drawn extremely well in their history at mmp...mmp is a huge draw. and they haven't always been in front for front runners to latch on to. they've drawn over 2.75 million fans 7 times since they moved to mmp. of those, they drew more than 3 million fans 4 times. we finished 4 games under .500 in 2007, and still drew over 3 million fans. this may be the worst year in franchise history, and they're still averaging greater than 10K per game more than they averaged in 1992, for example (when they actually did finish .500). they still rank 10th out of 16 among NL teams...not good by any means, but given the product on the field, that ain't shabby.
*sigh* Houston is no more "frontrunner" than any other town. All types exist in all towns. Reference Max's post.
I feel you are ignoring context. In 2007, the Astros had still recently reached the World Series and still had "aspirations of making the playoffs" whether or not they came close. Over the past 2 years, the Astros have never truly been considered playoff contenders. At times they have played over their heads or made runs, but in the long run they were not that good and attendence dipped. Right now the Astros are widely considered one of the worst teams in baseball, and have virtually no credibility to improve on that amongst its fans. A 0.500 record now would not bring in as many fans as it did in 2007 or before. It would take being a division leader/playing really well for a some time for non-diehards to jump back on.
it's the same in every city not named Chicago. when the team sucks it doesn't draw. that is not an indictment on the city. for me, it speaks to the good acumen of the consumers of that city. they're not stupid enough to spend top dollar on a POS product. if you like Chicago that much, move there. I'll take H-town, tyvm.
You're absolutely right...we haven't had much to be excited about. Having said that, if this team had a real closer and was sealing up some of these W's, we'd be in a completely different spot...and would not be considered one of the worst teams in baseball. Again, we're dead awful right now, and our attendance is 10th out of 16 in the NL. That's not great...but it's certainly better than I would have expected.
So Berkman and Holliday are out of today's lineup....good news right? Wrong....rain delay. Of course.
first pitch soon...rain stopped. anyone else having problems with comcast hd. i have uverse at home, and we use comcast at the office. FSN has problems with HD all the time...not sure if it's just our connection up here or a problem with FSN or comcast...but i don't have this problem at home on uverse.
2 for Lyon, 1 for Melancon, 1 for Fulchino. There may be another one or two, but I didn't check. Percentage wise, a quality closer having a routine year would have closed out at least 3 of those 4 games.
I'm kind of hoping the no hitter holds up against the Astros. When things go bad, I like them to go real bad. I wanna see how low the Astros can go. I want them to be depressed...just like some of us fans feel when we watch the worst team in baseball. I want to see long losing streaks and all the negatives that go with. Let's break some bad records. Go Astros!
count me out on that sentiment. losing sucks, sucks, sucks. another empty Texans-esque late-season run in garbage time will suck, but not like losing 95 or more games. screw that.
CJ is playing himself right back to AAA. I haven't seen much of Downs defensively. How would he do as the everyday 3B?
Since being 7-11 and 2 games out of first, they are 8-17 and 9.5 games out. Id say your already getting your wish.
