Not necessarily Brad Lidge related, but I just realized only two teams in the major leagues have higher payrolls...Enough with the across the board underachieving! Brad Lidge is just icing on the cake...
hey, i read it. i posted his numbers in another thread - they're trending upwards (the good way). saturday was a blown save, plain and simple. sunday, he settled down and pitched well. his strike out of rolen was vintage lidge. myles simply got lucky on a pitch lidge nailed. but yeah, i'm not overly worried about him. would i trust with him w/ a 2-1 lead in the 9th innining of a game 7....? eh. but he's been much better for two solid months, save for now 4 outings - @ WAS; @ CWS and these last 2 games with STL. the question is: why is he struggling in non-save situations and are the astros aware of it?
Krispy Creme...I haven't given up, but I'm pretty damn close... We cannot afford to blow games...We're only 6 back, but we still have a lot of work left ahead...
Brad Lidge pisses me off sometimes. but his "stock" will rise - those 2 runs he gave up against STL last game to lose it for us were not as bad as they looked on paper. if you watched the game, you knew that he was one pitch away from stopping that little munchkin from ruining us again. i know it always seems like "one pitch" or "one out," and really, he should be getting it done in those situations regardless...but he will come around. we've just been getting bad break after bad break for a long ass time. i know i seem overly optimistic, but IMHO, i think lidge will come around. i don't think he'll be as dominant as he was for that one stretch of his career, but to be 75% of that would still be pretty sick.
Sure Lights On gave up those two runs but if we could have gotten a hit with the bases loaded and one out, we would have won. Preston and Lane should get the bulk of the blame.
Thoughts on this thread: --I don't understand everyone still piling on Wilson. Am I the only one that's noticed his spike in BA and the RBI's he's collected recently?? --The Astros didn't "refuse" the Lidge-and-others-for-Miggy-and-others deal. Tejada backed off his trade demand, and Baltimore wisely pulled out.
