Well, it was fun while it lasted. The Stros gave a great effort bouncing back they way they did after that start, but it seems like they're settling into an average team right now. I hope they can get it going again, but my gut says no.
Too many black holes of death in the line-up and Biggio is slowing down as the season goes along. I am most concerned that Oswalt has gone several weeks without a good start. Faith in the "kids" is fine, but a lot of these guys aren't 20 years old, or anything. I hope Purpura doesn't fall in love with his own players so much that he forgets that this dominating starting pitching has a short shelf life and needs some help.
Screw it. Get Griffey. I know in 2 years we'll be paying him a ridiculous amount of money to play in 42 games, but he's healthy now and we need him now. The fact is that Andy's elbow might not hold up like this next year, Rocket might show his age, and Ensberg could be human again. Let's just get the guy and make a damn run. There's nothing I want to see in sports more badly than the Stros in a World Series. The odds of this pitching being half as good next year are slim -- let's just do it now. (Easy for me to say, of course, since it's not my money ...)
Another night of losing ground to virtually every team behind us in the race. This has to get turned around within 4 games or we are going to be out of it and QUICK.
It's Ensberg's fault. He left runners on 3 times. Fire him. Oh, wait...he has 33 HR's and is batting near .300. Better not do that just yet. Baseball ebbs and flows...as do Astros fans.
Actually, it seems that some of them don't. I could imagine a scenario in which we won the World Series, but some people would come on here b****ing that we didn't win it in enough games and that McLane should sell the team and Purpura should be fired. Astros losses piss me off every time. Half of it's because I'm going to come in here and be subjected to mind numbing posts from people who think the sky is falling.
While I agree Baseball ebbs and flows. At this time of the season when you are playing the lower teams and AT home, you need to take advantage. The Stros are not making it easy on themselves, for sure. DD
The loss is my fault, I got back to the game the inning where the Brewers first scored, I should have turned off the tv and gone to bed. I was bad luck.
Great teams play down to the level of their competition. Look at the bright side guys. We are a team of destiny.
Stros are going to get it going tonite. I know I might be crazy, but when things looked so bleak, THIS team surprised us all. They are going to get the offense going and the pitching is going to get back to excellent. We should all have faith.
Amen. When it got turned around earlier this season, we lost the first game of a series against the Brewers. It will happen again!!! BELIEVE!!!
it was really unlucky that we weren't able to get that run home on any of the lasers everett, burke, and ausmus hit. honestly, we should just stop treating them like they're actual hitters in those situations. everett should've been a pretty much automatic bunt to get the guy to 3rd with one out and it should've been about 50/50 on whether or not to try to squeeze or just plain bunt the next guy home. get one run in with those 3 coming up and consider yourself lucky. don't let them actually swing.
Was the balk that let Lane go to third, pickoff related? Or, if Everette had advanced Lane with a sac bunt, would the balk have brought Lane home to score? I'm just watching gameday so I have no way to tell...
Even if we're not hitting (which we're not).... we still need to be doing the "little things" right. I'm talking about turning the tailor-made DP's, moving runners over when you have the opportunity, and hitting the cut-off men. You still may lose games when you do all those things right... but you cannot expect to ever win if you don't hit AND you don't play fundamental. All I can say is... at least its still "early" (to quote a famous saying from the first half of the season). Once Labor day hits... the post-season run should be starting for-real.
