Birds at Stros, Aug 30, 2008 6:05 PM CDT

MY NL Player of the month slams a 2-run homerun

two men on, no outs
 
A fun start anyway

6 runs and not a single out yet! Amazing!

and then a sacricfie bunt

Manny being meaningless

:p

Totally unexpected
            but appreciated

with Pence on second!! what’s he thinking?

That wasn’t even close to being caught. And the umpire is too afraid of being proven wrong to ask his fellow umpires for help. I hope that the league office has something to say about this. The replay speaks for itself.

Quintero hit to right – BALL BOUNCED – Right fielder caught ball on semi-short hop. Ump says it was caught. Pence doubled of easiy at first.

Theball clearly bounced. Umpire refused todiscuss with other umpires. Cooper explains the ump is blind and a jerk. Ump tosses Coop.

We hate the freakin ref.

The two men who do the Real Men of Genius commercials are at Minute Maid Park tonight being interviewed on television. They’ve done over 200 “salutes.”

They did a live salute to the Astros Mascot. Funny!

on Tal’s Hill

8-3 Astros

8-3 Astros

Do you realize we will have a 20-9 August with 1 more game to play?
That also makes us 26-15 since the All Star break. That’s a .634 winning percentage — which is a little better than Chicago has been playing all year.

Mayhap we actually have a good team now that some of the dead weight is gone/out of the line-up (Bourn, Towles, Borkowski, Villareal, Cruz Jr., etc)

After that terrible first inning I figured Moehler was doomed to a short outing.

But he went six solid innings, holding the Cardinals scoreless since the Ankiel’s homerun in the first.

Byrdak relieves him in the seventh.

Mets and Marlins in close game

His fourth hit of the game.
8-5 Astros

Thanks, Brocail!

Does anyone notice how Pujols always bends down at his waist and ties his shoes when an Astro hits a home run?

Tejada cannot bat in front of Berkman!!!

On one of the Astros’ post-game shows last week, Hawkins was interviewed and when he was asked about the scoreless streak, he emphatically said he didn’t want to talk about it. Then he explained that his father had called recently and started to say something about his scoreless streak and he hung up on him. Hawkins said he would prefer to think about each game situation without the scoreless streak in the back of his mind. Though he didn’t use the word “jinx,” clearly he is worried about jinxing himself.

He’s been having a nice August too… well, relatively nice anyway. Batting about .260 on the month. Nice average to go along with the D.

Texas winning 44-10 late in the third quarter
Texas Tech winning 35 -24 late in the third quarter.
Texas A&M Losing 15-14 to Arkansas State late in the fourth quarter
Missouri leading Ilinios 17-13 in the second quarter.
Baylor lost 41-13 to Wake Forest
Houston no score early in the first quarter.

I see this as positive. I think a lot of his probelms is araesult of too much baseball – no time to recuperate.

Six run first sealed it.

Bring brooms Sunday.