Very true but look at the Rockets...entertaining team and a WINNING team but their 20th in attendance. Stros are going through a tough time and just look at the attendance figures for the club the last two years...not bad for a bad product but dwindling. 2007 and 2008 still had the after glow of the WS and all those contending teams but I read somewhere that the 10 smallest crowds in MMP history have come over the last 2+ years...no coincidence I think. Not saying we are a bad baseball town by any means, look at the ATL and Tampa, but your original thought, Max, was that a .500 record would have people excited...I just can't see it. They may draw a few more people and it wouldn't be a graveyard during weekday games but still wouldn't be good.
Good god, this inning is just a horrible one to watch. Lopez should have had a 1-2-3 inning but thanks to Hall's error and Lee jogging in LF on a ball Jason catches pretty easily, another run on the board for the Cards.
1. The Rockets keep missing the playoffs. The NBA regular season is about as meaningless as any in sports. More teams make the playoffs than don't make the playoffs. The playoffs last for freaking ever...it is truly the "second season." No one cares about record in a bubble...they care about where that record puts you in the standings....which leads me to my 2nd point.... 2. The Rangers are playing near .500 ball right now...as are the Angels. It doesn't matter...it's interesting because each is contending for the playoffs. Because you need to win your division. I don't know how many of the blown saves we've actually come back and won. But if the Astros were 1 game out as opposed to 9 games out, I think that would, quite obviously, be infinitely more interesting than what we're looking at right now.
comparing NBA and MLB = fail. and to note an unrelated fail, Bill Hall signing = fail. how soon before we can eject this loser like this year's Pedro Feliz?
DFA Hall, Barmes and Lee. They are the epitome of what is wrong with this club. I'd rather lose with Bogusevic, Downs/Sanchez, and Manzella. Watching those guys fail won't be near as frustrating because at least there is a glimmer of hope that they can get better. There is no hope for the other 3.
what's our record since Barmes returned? (yeah yeah I know; it's not a true cause/effect relationship)
Barmus isn't doing much but he is such a big upgrade defensively over Sanchez that I can live with his poor offense. Saying that, the offense could use a major lift and Sanchez can hit singles.
mm, didn't mean for my query to indicate i didn't agree with you. i do. so who is this year's strasburg or harper.
While I see and understand your point, you have to start fixing the holes at some point. I agree that a few of those BS turned into wins wouldnt change the playoff picture for the Stros at this point. They would still be irrelevant. But you have to begin somewhere. Where one guy wont fix an offense, one guy can go a long way to fixing blown saves.
We have the eleventh pick this year, so it doesn't matter. Anthony Rendon from Rice is a popular choice.
I'd be all right with that. Although I'd happily take he and Anderson Hernandez and cut both Barmes and Hall. We obviously suck; why spend a year watching has-beens that never were? Let's watch some rookies. That, and when Kepp comes back he is infinitely more valuable than Barmes and Hall.
