[Chron] Justice: Astros are at the mercy of Clemens

Purpura said this injury is very delicate and if rest doesn't help, Backe might very well be lost for the season.

 

I read somewhere (can't remember where) that they are having him rest 6 weeks, and THEN they will start rehabbing him. If his elbow is still bothering him, then they will likely shut him down for the rest of the season. So yeah, a season long injury is very much a possibility. Cross your fingers, I'll cross mine.

 

Richard Justice is a idiot. Dude knows nothing about sports as writes the same garbage every damn time. He will write the Dom Capers was the problem and the next day on the radio he will say it was CC. He will say one day Drayton is cheap and the next he will say Houston is lucky to have him.

 

Justice is pulling stuff out of his a$$ here like he always does. However the fact that Backe might be gone for rest of the season is really worrying. With Andy Pettite not doing very well we are essentially left with Oswalt and three rookies in the rotation. Hopefully Andy will be okay. If Roger does not come back then the Astros need to pick up a pitcher before the trade deadline. I am hoping that Wandy/Nieve/Buchholz can get about 25-30 wins between them and Andy and Roy both pitch like they did last year.

 

It's simple: if Clemens was already intent on playing and felt slighted by the Astros for "letting him go," then he would be on another team already. This article is just plain stupid.

 

On the plus side, at least the offense is clicking. And Wandy, Nieve and Buchholz have looked good so far (*crosses fingers*).

 

I read the Chronicle sport page every single day. I wish someone would have stolen my newspaper so I did not have to read Justice's drivel today. I mean I used to enjoy reading his articles, but he has become almost unreadable.

 

Andy will be ok, Personally I hope Backe is ok this year because if he is not we are in serious trouble.

Off the top of my head I can't think of too many guys we can get at the deadline we will have too see who is out of the race and which guys are gonna be in a contract year on those teams.

I wish we would of gone after Beckett this past off season but we did not and he will end up winning the cy-young in the al.

 

Yeah Beckett would have been nice but thats water under the bridge right now. If clemens does come back and the young guys pitch like they have so far I think we will be fine. Andy should be fine, from what I have seen so far his velocity is up from last year he is just missing spots. I guess its too early in the year to make blanket statements.