The Astros are good for 1 win every 3 games. According to my math, that means our final record should be around: 53 wins - 109 losses LOL
I don't care what Coop says to the media, Valverde shouldn't come anywhere close to the mound if it is a close game.....he's a mess, both mechanically and in the head right now. Gotta get some kind of production out of the lineup, minus the Big 3. Take away Lee, Berkman and Tejada, the team is hitting a pitiful .196. What happened to the team that lead the Grapefruit League in hitting? (Yeah, I know it's only Spring Training)
Just be glad we don't have this pitcher: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddl...0080417?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Actually, 37 year old male hottie from Texas in the junior class overweight cheeseburger eating competition. I was asked to share my thoughts on "why Robert E. Lee was so fat and wasn't apparently restricted to any diet when his men around him were all on the 100 day old "hard as a rock" bread diet.". This was the best I could do. I got flustered. I thought they meant Carlos Lee and the U.S. Astros...not Confederacy. I didn't even really hear the question.
Yeah, I'm sure three to four years of great, All-Star level pitching is all completely out of his system after two weeks.
Why amusing? Because you want the personal satisfaction of being 'right'? It's never 'amusing' when Astros fail. Timmy P was a horrible GM--that wasn't funny. We watched most of his decisions backfire--that wasn't amusing. Watching Valverde go from NL Saves leader to "Joe Valvoline" is not amusing. It sucks. 10-2 blowouts suck, too. Losing sucks. And while I'm at it, the Phillies, Mets, and Braves suck, too. And the Dodgers. Fred Brocklander sucks. Ray Knight and Keith Hernandez suck. Pete Rose sucks. Brian Jordan sucks, and Walt Weiss really sucks. And Kevin Freaking Brown, too. And if you like watching Astros lose, you suck. Any questions?
i wish/hope valverde is good and regains his stuff, but whether he does or not is far less important than having a manager who won't force him out there every single save situation even if he's getting drilled just because it's a save situation and he's our "closer". garner did this to a fault, with lidge and other relievers (and hitters for that matter). if you aren't performing, unless you are a superstar (which jose valverde certainly doesnt qualify as), you get benched or lose your job. hopefully too much of gar didn't rub off on cooper and he understands this.
Yeah, Garner waited far, far too long to pull the plug on Lidge -- certainly not like he did it after one blown save -- oh wait.
So we have the ghost of Burke doing his thing on Pence and we have the ghost of Lidge doing his thing on Valverde and saying the ghost of Garner is coming after Cooper?! Who's ghost is next?!
