[Official] Rays @ Astros

And just like that, TB is winning.

 

Norris gives it all back and then some.

 

And back to tie game.

 

Zobrist pwning us.

Moehler with a disastrous relief appearance.

 

Wheels coming into this game made memories start flooding back into my coconut.

 

Pence extends his career of sucking at base stealing.

It's a mystery to me. He's horrible at it.

 

Horrible, Manzella. Just horrible.

 

that ought to do it.

 

Zobrist is 7-for-13 with 3 walks and a HR in this series.

 

How long before they send Norris down?

 

I think they got to consider that pretty soon. They can call him up again when we go up against the Cardinals.

 

I think I miss Adam Everett's offense at SS as much as his glove.

I didn't think I would ever utter those words.

 

I say leave him up, team is going nowhere. Let him learn at this level, if he was getting destroyed and showing no promise at all, then sure but he is being haunted by that one bad inning. If he starts to get knocked around where his confidence starts to suffer, ok.

 

And its only May 23rd..... Oh boy.

 

Oh, c'mon... there are only a few games left in the season. By few, I mean 118 of course.

If you are like me and expect us to be somewhere between bad and terrible for at least the next 2 seasons, then there are only a mere 442 games until the 2013 season.

By then, some of these prospects might start turning into impact players with the Astros. Even if a few of them pop up before then, they will likely need a year or two of seasoning at this level before they can produce at above replacement level.

 

Unless he is pitching against St. Louis, he consistently cannot make it out of the 5th inning. He has an ERA of 6.80. What more evidence do we need that he is not getting it at this level?

 

I say keep him around just for the postgame interviews. He talks faster than the speed of light. I like the challenge of trying to decipher what he's saying. Surprisingly, it's almost as difficult as making sense of a Wandy or Paulino interview.

And I don't think anybody would have the courage to demote Chuck Norris so you certainly can't demote Budchuck.

 

I was sitting near Maurice Evans from the Atlanta Hawks, pretty cool guy.

 

I assume most of y'all have seen this by now...



If you haven't by any chance, go to Twitter and search for #budchuck.

 

Bud Norris' career ERA thus far is very similar to Wandy at this point. Lots of pitchers struggle early in their careers. Unless there's some other prospect who's ready to come up and get some experience, there's no reason to dump Norris at this point.