Give Lidge another month to see if he can turn it around. If not I would go with Weeler as the closer. I would also like to see Nieve go to the bullpen to be groomed as our future closer.
I have more confidence in these two right now than I do with Lidge. With Qualls, it seems to be more of a mechanical problem. With Lidge, it seems mental.
Brad Lidge = Nick Anderson And some smarties here were "not sure" about trading this guy away for Miguel Tejada? LMAO! Oh well, we missed the train, now he's been exposed. Much like the Rockets ruined Nick Anderson, "Fat Albert" has ruined a once-promising career of "Replace the Light Bulb" Lidge...It's going to get ugly unless he gets a change of scenary or he seeks intensive therapy.
It really does seem to be mental, but man. He seems to be throwing the ball a lot more in the dirt, but when it goes it goes in a straight motion. He used to have nasty sliders that went into the dirt. Now they are obvious and hitters don't even bite. Man, they are doing it again. Some chick is holding up a sign that said I believe, and she has been on the tv for 2 min now. Crazy. Jim Brown is whislting around , and humming to clear his throat. Lol.
Great post, i love the in depth..... Well, 2 on and no outs. Lets hope that extra run gallo gave up doesn't turn out too big.
Agreed. I for one am willing to give Lidge more time to figure things out. After all he's still converted 7 of 8 saves this year. And that's a pace to notch 35-40 saves. And even Wagner has blown one already. This is such a knee jerk reaction I'm seeing after one game in the beginning of the year, you'd think we were in October already.
Yet Lidge is the one tinkering with his mechanics that everybody (himself, Ausmus, Garner and Hickey) are saying its off. Wheeler seems to have the composure to be a decent closer in this league... but Qualls looks like the great set-up guy, but he doesn't have either the mental makeup, or great control that you need to be a good closer. Seriously... control is more important than stuff 9 times out of 10 for a closer. Wheeler comes in throwing strikes regardless of the situation. Qualls, not so much. In any case, maybe this will cause them to do something drastic with Lidge... like make him a starter again, or work him in situations strictly to work on his mechanics. The problem about the "mental" argument is that Lidge still wants the ball... and he'll say it again in the paper tommorow. He's either that mentally strong, or simply is a glutton for punishment. Either way, I'd give Lidge more time, and give him the benefit of the doubt that something needs to be tweaked again mechanically (and please don't broadcast it so other teams can find out).
Nevermind....game ending DP. That sucked donkey ****. We'll win the next 2. If our offense comes back to life. GO STROS!!!!
I hope so! I hope the offense can figure out Penny...and we need about 6 IP, 2 ER out of Nieve..at least!
Ugh... the bandwagoners (ie - Rockets fans who are not baseball fans) are striking again... too bad it took 19 games for them to come out of the woodwork, but here they come.
Wow, I think that's the first time I've kneejerk-ed in a while Alright, we take the next 2. Frosty and Double H will bring home the series win before the road trip.
Well that's the first loss that really hurts this season. Let's just not have too much of a hangover and we'll be A-OK. Next two games are going to be tough though!
