Freedom of Speech RMJ !!! and you've been a member since 2003. Where were you when all the Timmy P bashing was going on...Don't just get onto me !! And Honestly I could care less what you think !!
Well you do have a point...part of the reason why they have one of the higest payrolls now is because so much of it is tied up in Bagwell (whose not even playing) and Clemens. That said they do have a decent team out there, but have grossly failed to live up to expectations (Lane sent down, Esnberg to the DL, Willy T coming back down to earth, etc) both at the plate and in the field. I haven't seen any kind of chemistry and fire since that heavenly first month. And what's worse, neither Clemens returning, the Huff addition or the All-Star break has turned this team around. But I will not admit defeat until this team is mathematically eliminated...the race is just to close this year and of course this team has proven doubters wrong in the past. ...And the Mets just totally schooling the Astros right now. It's kind of nice to actually watch a team that executes the fundamentals so well. Grand Slam to drive in the baserunners, leadoff double then single to move runner over then sac fly, a potential Burke homer robbed by a great catch. I know our guys are capable of this...I'm getting impatient waiting for them to wake up though.
What the hell does the fact that I've been here since 2003 have to do with this? Oh and I wasn't in on the bashing Timmp P by the way idiot. But I guess I should agree with you because you are so smart. Drayton doesn't want to win at all
While I agree, I'd still take Buccholz over Wandy, probably cause he has more upside. But if you can't afford to have him in the rotation then who would fill his place. You could move Nieve back, but then would have to send Buccholz down and bring somebody other than him or Wandy and Hirsch for that matter up into the pen (I guess maybe Sampson). But then will Nieve be a drastic improvement? Really Buchholz is the fifth starter, so it's not like too much is expected out of him anyways, as long as the top of the rotation is going strong (for the most part it is...Pettite is slowly getting better). Just take a look at the rotation last year... I'd say Oswalt, Pettite, Clemens, Backe and Buchholz is better than Oswalt, Pettite, Clemens, Wandy and Zeke (Backe was injured during the latter half).
Don't even start with me..I come here and have no problems with anyone. As long as we don't cuss anyone directly on this board we have the right to say what we want. If you don't like it then you can tell us and thats it just move on. Drayton McClane is from my home town and still lives there. I went to school with one of his sons. He knows nothing about baseball so he really relies on his GM. I use to talk to his son in high school all the time and he would tell me that the Astros was his big toy.I take back saying that McClane wants to lose because who does but I will still say what I want and not conduct my self like a baby !! So I apologize to you...
Your right Junkyard...I just wish it was the Astros getting the Grand slams and timely hitting. I just can't stand that as soon as a team gets 2 or more runs I just know the game is over because we have had no heroic come from behind wins. Honestly though I don't like to watch any other team so thats just me...Maybe they will come around but I say they only have until the end of this month. Man the National League really sucks this year...
Understood ... my problem with you is that I basically stated to you that I disagreed with you and did not attack you personally and I get a "honestly I don't care what you think" so obviously you are the one telling me that I cannot say what I want. If you want to think Drayton wants to lose .. that is fine ... all I said before was that I disagreed. And btw ... sorry for calling you idiot in a subsequent post ... that was uncalled for
well, i would take him over wandy too, but i don't think either of them are good enough to be starting on a team with postseason hopes who are falling further and further behind and cannot hit for ****. nieve seemed like the most solid of the 3 to me, but it's not like replacing buchholz with him would make that big of an impact on our standings at this point. i guess my point was that it just isn't surprising to see this happening to taylor, and basically, i expected it. he seems to have talent, but he's a rook and wears his emotions on his sleeve, and gets visibly shaken when things aren't going his way. Going out to the mound knowing in the back of his mind that he has a team behind him who likely won't score can't make things any easier on him. as for last year... man, i don't think i'll ever understand it. the stars just seemed to align. wandy seemed to go through 90% of his starts always pitching unimpressive and always in trouble, yet it seemed like he somehow always got out of his starts without giving up more that 3 runs in 5 or more innings.
Truce !! Thats why I said if someone says something you don't like then tell them. No problem and sorry for the miscommunication. I just Love The Stros and its hard to see this...I have blamed everyone on the team to the Front office. We will just have to see what happens Well there goes another Mets Homer...
quite the understatement. i have to say though, this is amazingly one of our least painful losses of the year, sadly enough. one of the only losses in recent memory that wasn't absolutely agonizing and brutal.
Remember the days of those high octane offenses...hell it was only a few years ago. Didn't matter how far back he team got, you knew they were capable of coming back and winning. Didn't the '04 team had an insane amout of 7th inning+ comebacks. Man those were the days.
Don't blame Drayton and Purpura, blame those in the uniforms. The Astros are getting the mud stomped out of them tonight, but this has not been a rare occurence since the end of April. There is no way in hell that this team could make the playoffs. They are undertalented as it is and they are playing some of the worst fundamental baseball an Astros team has played in a long time. They don't make clutch hits, pitches, plays or managerial decisions. They have one of the most mediocre power lineups in the league, yet they wait for the three-run homer like they are the 1983 Baltimore Orioles. I don't see the point of running Biggio out there everyday as a leadoff hitter when he doesn't run, or get on base enough anymore. Lidge and Oswalt went from being dominant to being borderline headcases (yes, I include Oswalt). The margin of error has always been tight for this team and I just don't see Roger Clemens and Aubrey Huff as being enough to right the ship when nobody besides Berkman and Burke is even having a decent year.
6-7 with a 3.22 ERA...I'd go nuts too if I hadn't gotten a win in almost two months despite pitching well enough.
fantastic post. agree with everything, except the oswalt criticism. i think he's pitched great first of all, and considering the pressure that our starters pitch under, given the fact that they are going out there every start knowing they likely have to pitch close to shutout ball, which he has basically done, he has pulled his weight and then some, in my opinion.
