I really think having to face Elarton, then Duckworth, really threw this team off... facing guys for the first/second time, that you know are mediocre is one thing... but facing former players that you saw be mediocre first-hand is something else. As long as they don't have to face Jeriome Robertson, Pete Munro, Jose Lima, or any other mediocre pitcher the Astros have had in the past years, that effect shouldn't happen again.
I had a feeling this series would go this way. I mean, we were on a roll. I just had that bad gut feeling that this series was goign to suck. I mean, the Royals came into town with only 7 road wins all season and 29 losses. I guess they were due to win a series on the road. Sucks. Hope we win the next series.
I am rather let down that we didn't sweep the worst team in the majors. Who thunk it? The only good thing that came out of this series is I got to meet Bill Doran. That is an honor for me. But...we should have stomped them. Today while I was there we didn't even take BP. Neither of them did. I knew that was bad news for us. I should have stayed the whole game.
Well they could turn around and sweep the Chi Sox or Detroit next week in (doubtful though). It does really come down to starting pitching and having to face those two guys I guess messed with the team a little bit. I'm sure Elarton and Duckworth we're trying to bring their best stuff too to stick it to their former team.
No doubt they were... you saw today how good Duckworth can be when he focuses, concentrates, and executes his pitches. He's got a great arm, and he puts a ton of arm action on that changeup. But, he's severly lacking in the mental/intestinal fortitude department... thus, when he gets in trouble, it can all fall apart very quickly (same with Elarton... notice that Bell takes them both out before the impending explosion, rather than try to let them work thru it). Its disheartening that these guys need extra motivation to just do a slightly above average performance at their job/livelihood... they should be bringing it like this every single time out, and then maybe they wouldn't have the worst team in baseball.
There is nothing worse than being all excited to spend an afternoon with your dad at the ball park, only to watch the home team blow chunks against the worst team in the league.
Watching the Astros lose to the Royals is the equivalent of watching the Rockets lose to teams like the Bobcats last year. Yea I know we were bad last year, but jeez.
The Stros are really good at sucking against horrible teams and kicking the butts of the best teams. We are so bass ackwards.
