Ok that's fine and all, but I don't think they're sucking on purpose. The plan is not to try and get the number one pick. It's to acquire and develop young talent by trading older players with value who don't figure to be a part of the long-term solution; and not wasting time, money, and roster spots on old vets who would do absolutely zero to help this team contend. What would you rather they do? Go sign a bunch of Brett Myers so they can win 70 games with an 80 million dollar payroll? Y'all are overrating the number one pick. With the rare exceptions when there's a sure thing player (Bryce Harper, Strasburg) it's much more of a crapshoot than the NBA or NFL. Getting the number one pick is nice, but it's not the end goal every year.
Sounds like sucking on purpose to me. The rules now make the #1 pick much more valuable than in the past just from a salary pool standpoint.
It's going to take the Astros years to recover from this cluster ####. Baseball fans skew older and many don't have access to the net. For them, it's like the team went away.
Perspective is everything I guess. I'm willing to bet that no one that is complaining today will be complaining in a few years when their current strategies have them in contention. Of course that assumes that Crane makes good on his promise and opens up the pocketbook to retain players and fill the holes in FA once the team is close. If he doesn't, then yeah, screw him.
Hypothetically speaking, what's stopping a sports conglomerate, like the Houston Regional Sports Network, from asking for a minimal property tax increase to broadcast on network TV for everyone to see? It would surely net the teams a ton of money and since coverage would be universal, exposure would be substantially better. A round-the-clock source for all things Rockets, Astros, High School Football, and maybe Cougars, Owls and Dynamo? Would Houstonians seriously be against something like this?
you should have asked when did they stop... ive payed for a rockets PPV game before. a playoff game in the 90s. all i really remember is it was like $19.99 and we lost.. $20 to see bill and calvin..
the astros are a more valuable franchise than the rockets. plus when this deal was made like 3 years ago, neither team really had much of a foreseeable future. now that the rockets are potentially really good we have a bunch of rocket only fans ****tin on the astros because they're desperate to watch the rockets.. i love both teams and dont want to see one left behind for a quick fix to get the other on tv.
The actual channel is far better than any sports channel Houston has ever had for its teams. Unlike FSN (which was a DALLAS based network), they have around the clock Houston programming, and do a great job of doing what they intend to do.
I'll repeat this because I still don't understand why some of you are not understanding this: the Astros are screwing the Rockets and Comcast. The Rockets are not on the Astros side in this current dispute. If this dispute goes "Full Monty" it will be a PR blood bath for Jim Crane.
Oh no, Madmax is going go after you now. Please use you connections to get someone to write a story about this
I will say that if CSN Houston folds and the Rockets end up having to find another carrier (doubtful), having to go back to FSN would be one of the worst things for the Rockets brand. FSN is Dallas based and hardly even covers the Mavericks as it is on their station. With the Rockets, they cover too much to not dilute coverage of the Rockets. They cover way too many things for too large of a geographic territory.
CSN rivals ESPN with its around the clock Houston-talk and its extremely clean and professional presentation. Your hate should be directed at Jim Crane and the ****stros.
True ... but most of us will actually be able to watch it. I'd rather have access to an inferior product than have no access at all.
