Houston Astros at Baltimore Orioles, 6:05 PM CDT

is better than Blum. But now I see that Olson is a lefty, and that explains why Blum starts over Erstad. Not that I think Blum is that great a hitter against lefties. Loretta would have been a better choice at 1st base, IMO. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong by a Blum HR.

Says he’s easy to run against.. odd for a lefty(which JD also mentions)

How pathetic could we possibly be

Lance is hitting .244 in June(before that hit). His avg is down to .360

Berkman seems to be running okay, on the pop up he made it about 3/4 to 3rd before the SS caught it.

Single up the middle by Roberts :(

stranding the lead off single at 1st..

I’m curious how long the goodwill will last for Houston fans. We haven’t had a good season since the world series year, yet the team is still drawing well. Part of that is probably due to the fact that one mistake Drayton hasn’t made (and he’s made plenty) is to jettison popular players like Oswalt, Berkman or Pence. That plus the Biggio tribute season last year have kept the numbers up.

But it can’t last forever. I imagine most people on this board are die hard enough to keep going to games regardless of whether the home team is winning or not, but that’s not the vast majority of fans (I’m not blaming them for that). I hope we can get back to winning before the fans drift away, but it’s going to be hard to do in the next couple of years unless something drastic happens.

probably a good sign for Backe.

:p

my son wants to build a “castle“

i have him on my fantasy team, but hadn’t seen him play

Slow ass Q.

BP has an interview with him.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=912

... ugh.. Need his defense.

wish Lance Berkman was at first tonight.

Home run Huff..

Good for my fantasy team… Baaaad for the Astros

as Aubrey Huff homers
2-1 Orioles

Tejada almost Burked.

Have the Astros looked more pathetic than that inning.
It’s just sickening.

both teams combined. someone alert Guinness!

I always think of these

It’s very hard to be a fan of a team that’s on their way to being 3 for their last 18…..

:p

Making it look easy

Classic Astros

for slow game play last weekend.

see fan post.
http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2008/6/17/553843/coop-fined

Uh.. Michael Mourn to the rescue?

???

Houston has plenty of local talent.

Nice double scoring 2 putting the ‘Stros back in the lead

eventually i’m going to have to stop being sarcastic about this “rally”. 3 runs on 4 hits.

Sup fellas.

Nice at bat for Matsui – 9 pitches then doubles home two runs

in the background when Berkman was coming up to the plate. not sure why, but I can’t imagine a song and a player more ill-suited to one another.

HOW WILL IT END?!!!

Dolan and Raymond sound like they hit the pub before the game. Very liberal with their coverage of the game. Banter is more “lively” than normal.

LEEEE!!!

El Caballo!

thought it was too high and probably foul, but it stayed fair

Giddy up Horsey!

was around when Kent Hrbek was still playing? JD was just talking about players who hit the ball off the warehouse in BP. I’m old.

now JD and Brownie are talking about the rent on Monopoly properties. Talk about delirium

Buy why isn’t Carlos DHing? I would figure that Lance would be better at first than Geoff… Would be nice to have Darin in the lineup. Or am I off base?

failed hit and run, but blum still manages to steal the base. got lucky.

many of us thought he could have with a full time starters job…

either tied or winning… well, except for the Reds.

??

He’s looks like he is laboringto me. I bet this is his last inning.

pitch count is climbing and JD has been pointing out that he’s missing his spots.

bring in Marlo

probably didn’t have to jump but it made it look more dramatic

But Coop went with conventional wisdom and called for Byrdak.

But made a nice catch in right to end that threat.

I figure they’ll be giving it to him as this series goes on… especially if he does anything remotely productive. From soft boos to outright jeering

5-4 astros

leading off the inning against Byrdak

Houston Astros have given up 102
Worst team in that regard in the AL are the MinnesotaTwins with 83

Sonofabitch.

it sure looked liked it

Out of control Umpire

to getting squeezed by ump.

immediately….had to wait for calll on swing by 1st base ump.

even on a v. high pitchout throw

on a close pitch. lots of close pitches on the outside corner in the last few batters.

astros have a 5 run night. should be enough offense, but brocail/valverde breakdown and we find another way to lose (gave away another out on the bases tonight too).

I don’t know anyway tto sugar coat this loss, or the Astros’ play in general.