Oswalt missed a game 2 weeks ago with the same injury, and came back and pitched 3 more stellar outings before last night.
You always lose a lot of posters when there is nothing to b**** about. That's the way life works. Some people just like to b**** and are terrible at the compliments. lol Good job, Lidge. I'm glad you found your mechanics again. You have some bad luck with those HR balls but you are "doing one heckuva job, Brownie" (Bush). lol
Let's hope they ARE all alright, & we can do make it interesting. Ya never know. 7.5 out of first, & 4 from the cellar. A "certain person" would rather wait around for a week & say "Itoldyaso! Itoldyaso!" like an immature know-it-all everytime his boy does what he gets paid to do, than band together for the stretch. Waste energy trying to tell people what kind of fan they are, even though he's never seen J.R. Richard pitch, & probably never even saw Nolan Ryan in an Astros uni either! 'Tever. Post away on Saturday night, Clap. You rock. We don't.
Wait around for a week? No. He's been doing this essentially all year long. Being an "immature know-it-all" would be waiting for one poor result after 3-4 dominating months, and then acting like that result is representative of how that player has performed throughout that time. And tenure following a team speaks nothing to the kind of fan someone is. I know people that have followed the Astros back from the Jimmy Wynn days, and they're complete idiots when it comes to actually understanding baseball. By the way, I find it particularly ironic that you're apparently calling me out for making a post "on Saturday night," yet your initial whine and crybaby act regarding Lidge came from a post... on Saturday night a week ago. You really have a special ability to call people out and get on your high horse without as much as providing a shred of actual analysis as to why you think the things you think. I'm impressed.
Actually, Lidge was ready to come off the DL after his 15 days from the oblique. It was healed. What made him stay out two weeks longer was a re-aggravation of his right knee injury (which he ices before every game and will have to have surgery on after the season). That said, Lidge's recovery was a very quick one... in some cases (Jake Westbrook), it's been as long as 57 days. And it might be different with a starting pitcher -- I'm not sure. It might be the nail in the coffin.
His injury was different. He said he's never had an oblique strain before, so he doesn't know what to expect as far as recovery.
Gene, I live in Austin and ran into Keith Moreland the other day, he is a local radio guy and used to be an outfielder for the Phillies I think. I asked him about JR Richard, and he said he was by far the hardest pitcher he ever faced. Said he was so long that the ball looked like he was just handing it to the catcher and his slider was NASTY. Too bad the team did not believe JR when he said he had a dead arm.....if they found that clot, they could have removed it, and he would have been out about 2 weeks, instead of going through a minor stroke, losing his career and almost his life. What an amazing pitcher he was.......nasty. DD
AWESOME! As was he. I was just a kid, but man ... he was my fave. I remember that summer well. Watched him start & dominate as the NL All-star starter from a hotel room in Nags Head NC, & then it went downhill shortly thereafter. Very sad. I'm trying to think of a starter right now, that we could compare that situation to, if they went down & never really pitched again. Santana? Zambrano? Those guys, while great ... I don't know ... it just doesn't seem like it could compare to a player of J.R.'s talent getting cut down in their prime like that. We would have had Him, Ryan, Sutton, Niekro ... who else did we have? I should look it up. Insane talent! Cat - lick the sack.
Stay classy, Gene. It's kind of strange how Munson is batting behind Lane and Bruntlett in the lineup, but ultimately I doubt that makes a huge difference. This would be a huge one to take, considering Lee is out and Albers is pitching.
An oblique strain was the reason he missed his start a couple of weeks ago... its likely the same one.
