Did anyone just hear JVG give Oswalt a shout out on ABC? LMAO! He kept hyping him up until Mark Jackson intervened to cool down his excitement a bit. JVG rocks!
How many teams have had as much general success as the astros in the last 15 years? They are a consistent team that always puts a product on the field that has a shot at the playoffs. No one complains more about their team than Astros fan ity:
well I just got back from Vegas.. put a big bet on Astros over 73.5 (or maybe it was 72.5...I will have to go look at it)
Recently. Jeff Kent (03), Andy Pettitte (04), Roger Clemens (04), Carlos Lee (07). Those are some pretty BIG names in MLB. Thanks for coming out. Boom!
the original statement is people WANT to play for the astros. Carlos Lee is absurdly overpaid. Of course he wants to play for the astros- the astros were willing to overpay him. The Astros were then rewarded with a situation where they couldn't make any other major moves because they are weighed down by the contracts of their three stars. Roger Clemens originally accepted a hometown discount and then was persuaded to stay because he made more than 20 million dollars to play half a season. Pettite was another home town discount that got the hell out as soon as he demanded market value. Which leaves us with Jeff Kent. Signing ONE major name out of the the thousands of players that have filed for free agency in the last ten years does not mean people WANT to play for the Astros. If it was not for hometown discounts or ludicrous pay days, the Astros would have no major signings in the last ten years, save our good friend Jeff Kent. sorry I don't have a lame catchphrase to end my post with and make me look like an infant.
Thousands??? Are you sure about that? There are 30 MLB clubs. That means that every year there are 750 MLB players. That means that if every player had a one year career, there would have been 7,500 MLB players over the last 10 years. We know that has not happened. Are you sure that there have been THOUSANDS of free agent filings in the last 10 years?
http://mlb-rumors.blogspot.com/2007/07/2008-free-agents.html says there were about 200 FA this year so times ten means about 2000 over the last ten years? It doesn't matter, lets just say hundreds. The point still remains.
Uhh, if these guys didn't want to play for the Astros, why on earth would they sign here for LESS than market value?
Only being able to get quality free agents by overpaying or lucking out that they grew up here does not mean that our franchise is a team most players desire during free agency. This is the only point I was trying to make there
You must be fun at parties. I haven't seen someone hate so much on a team that was in the World Series just a few years ago. A team that had a payroll as high as the Red Sox a few years ago. A team that had a string of playoff appearances that Reds would fans would kill for. So you would rather the Astros be like the Yankees and spend a ton of money with nothing to show for it except insanely high ticket prices? Money doesn't equate to a championship. Bottom line is there is only one World Series winner every year and 2 weeks before the season starts we have no idea who that will be. Astros could find themselves right back there. We don't know. Atleast we aren't the Pirates or Royals with absolutely no chance in hell to win. As for feeling sorry for Lance and Roy, why? They play a game and make more money in one year than most of us will make in a lifetime. They have been to a World Series, they have respect, what is the problem? That is a dream life.
I still agree with the original poster. They would be suited better elsewhere where a team could use them. Oswalt to the Red Sox would make them invincible, and Berkman batting in front of Manny would be sick in a horrible NL West. Even Tejada or Lee could be needed somewhere like AZ who can't bat either and would have to combate LA getting Berkman. Both those teams would surely go to the playoffs. Get some top prospects via trades and sign some free agents when the time is right when we can actually make a run at the division or at least the wild card.
