You are just mad because you have season tickets because you thought we had Beltran. Quit assuming. I makes you look bad.
I've had season tickets for 3 years....2 of the years I didnt go to more than 5 games because I wasnt living here....I didnt get tickets because of Beltran...but I certainly didnt keep them to see a bunch of kids I can go watch at Round Rock
Some of you guys really surprise. The Astros just had the worst offseason in recent team history and you guys are finding excuses for an owner that has repeatedly been dishonest with us about the Astros' financial situation. Plan B has always been to go with the young guys. Don't believe that BS spin that comes out of Drayton's mouth.
OK. The problem I have is... If you are going to go with the young guys then go with the young guys. Don't blame Boras for what he did when we really did not miss out on any other free agents. This was our plan. Boras is just the scapegoat.
who available right now will help us win.. I want to know that. You are automatically assuming teams want to trade good players to us. and that free agents that signed else where wanted to come here
Beltran was the only guy I wanted this offseason. besides maybe some cheap bullpen help. We lost out on that vinture so now I dont feel like overpaying some over the hill FAs just so it looks like we did something.
I just listed about 3 zillion guys that would have and could have helped us...would they have come here? Possibly...but we won;t know that since Carlos was Plan A and nothing was Plan B. Purpura even said it himself....Drayton is a smart guy and Boras didnt pull one over on him. Well if Drayton was aware of everything and didnt have the wool pulled over his eyes, then he knew full well we didnt have much of a cghance at Carlos and basically wasted the entire offseason because he didnt want to just come out and say "Fans, we are going to have a youth movement. We arent going to get Carlos and we aren't going after anyone else for that matter."
You know what....I know you guys are all fans and want the best for the team. I just want to see what your feelings are if we dont do anything else this offseason other than lock up Vizcaino and Lamb and we are 15 games out of 1st in June.
Purpura, first as head of scouting and then as assistant GM for years under Hunsicker, has been the one "identifying talent" for the better part of a decade. Oswalt, Miller, Berkman, Santana, Everett, Burke, Lane, and a host of others all say hi. To say that Purpura knows nothing about identifying talent is an excercise in ignorance of the recent history of this franchise. It is also more likely the product of bitterness over the whole Beltran thing than sound reasoning. Now, is Purpura a good GM? The jury's still out. Personally, I miss Gerry Hunsicker. He was incredible.
Yeah I'm sure Purpura found all of those guys on his own....not. Was he absent the day we had tryouts for RF between Abreu and Hidalgo? Or the day we let Santana get claimed in that rule 5 draft or whatever? Say what you want...but there's a huge void in GMing and evaluating now that Gerry is gone.
Good teams on paper underperform all the time. Mediocre teams on paper play over the heads all the time. This team, on paper is pretty average. If the Astros are 15 games out of first by 1 June, I hope to see Taveras in CF and Burke at 2B. Might as well give the guys some run to 1) cement our future at the position or 2) build up their trade value.
"Say what you want," but Purpura was in charge of all those scouts and coordinated all those meetings that landed and cultivated that talent in the Astros organization. Purpura wasn't "absent" the day Abreu and Santana were lost. These were, in fact, the GM's decision. The Astros *knew* how talented they were, but all organizations can only protect a certain number at each level and these losses are fairly common.
