You will be missed, Strommy. Thanks for all the great work you did with Astros’ pitchers over the years.
Didn't he tell the Astros he was retirinng only to sign with the team with the league's worst record? He did some great things here, but the key word is "did". I don't care about he it's closer to home excuse. He's dead to the Astros. Moving on.
A whole lot of whiny and ungrateful little chumps with no concept of how non contracted freedom of employment works. Strom was apparently supposed to be a indentured servant who could only ever work for the Astros.
No one wanted him to to be an indentrured servant, moron. We just prefer men who are up front and honest.
Then why don' t you enlighten us? He didn't say for months that he and his wife had been mulling retirement for more than a year?
If you simply read the two threads on this topic, you'd already be enlightened. Literally the very first sentence of this thread, which hopefully you'd have read before posting in it: Said he was not going to be back with the Astros next season. Best of luck wherever he goes or best of relaxation in his retirement. He will be missed. He did say this. He said he was considering it. He never told the Astros he was retiring. And when he left, he never said he was retiring - just that he wasn't returning to the Astros. There have been multiple mentions that he still felt he had more in him and that he might look for gigs elsewhere.
Unless one of you stupid MFers can provide a reason for him needing to lie, I'm gonna still assume you're just whiners and he considered retirement just like he said. He said he wasn't coming back, anything beyond that is meaningless.
