Learn to deal with the fact that people can have different opinions and discuss them from a position of mutual respect. It's so sad and so small-minded when folks can't argue an opinion without attacking a person. Ad hominem, look it up. For the record, you make several good points in your post before finishing with this drivel.
It seems to me if you don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick, you take some guys later in the draft that plan to go to college and then you change their minds by paying them. There's no excuse to be dead last in spending for the draft when your farm system blows.
There is no mutual respect, because you offer no respect. You disagree with me and drop insults and then want to say that my argument is for naught. I simply stated my opinion and you seem to be up in arms about it, yet offer no alternative reasons why the Astros didn't sign their prospects. Fact of the matter is you don't know me, but like many you want to seem insightful and prove that those psychology classes you took in college actually gave you something for the real world. Thank you for the latin lesson, but I already speak some, so I say to you age quod agis because you know no other way.
No, I didn't. I didn't drop any insults at all. I said the take was whining. I said the take was stupid. I said the ad hominem was sad and small-minded. I never said anything about you. How stupid would it be to insult you? I don't know you from Adam. Besides, that would be an ad hominem. I'm not "up in arms" about your opinion, either. Is everyone who disagrees with you "up in arms"? Also, I never took psyche class and I speak no Latin at all. So I guess you don't know me, either. I learned the term ad hominem from a casual study of logic. Ad hominem and non sequitur seem to be the most common logical errors that show up on Internet BBS's such as this one. As far as minding my own business goes (if my google search served me right), this is a public forum. I'll comment where I please until they kick me out. My language in BBSs like this generally pointed and terse, but I am discussing the argument at hand and the argument only. I'm genuinely sorry if anything sounded insulting, but I'm not sorry for any of my posts on this matter. I didn't attack you, only your stupid post. I don't know you; why would I insult you? Do you have any further defense of your actual position? All this other crap is wasting space, and I'm sorry I brought it up. So, go ahead and insult away if you will, as long as we can return to the subject matter at hand. We agree the draft was an abysmal failure for the Astros. Why do you believe they failed so spectacularly? I ask because earlier you stated that "[cheapness] may not be the sole reason, but it is a contributing factor."
I never said they didn't screw up. They did. Horribly. However, to say they don't want to build a winner is just stupid, period. Of course they want to build. They just happen to have some some r****ds at the helm right now who are making very bad decisions. I don't think they should have paid the demands of a couple of high schoolers. They should have drafted people at these spots that they knew they could sign. They blew it this year.
