Houston Astros at Florida Marlins, Roy O to the Rescue (we hope)

error and single

as I’ve said a billion times in my life, God hates Houston. It’s just a fact. So we have to be really really really good to do anything in sports (like have the greatest center of all time playing for us). If we’re just really really good (1998, 2004 Astros) then we’re going to get screwed.

And if we’re mediocre (this year) we don’t have a chance in hell. The breaks that other cities get just don’t come to Clutch City.

no

so he can do the whole “touch the car battery, shock yourself, and become an all-star pitcher” move again.

Or maybe Drayton just needs to promise him a piece of farm equipment for every quality start.

oh well

I had to stop watching—it feels like June and July again.

I’m going to be very disappointed if they don’t at least snap out of this malaise to some degree over the next week and a half. I totally understand their performance in the Cubs’ games—like you said, your mom could have no-hit them on Sunday.

Yes, the whole Cubs series was unfair. But if the Astros roll over on the rest of the season because of that, I think it will do for me what even the Mitchell Report could not. For all his alleged faults, think of Roger Clemens pitching, and winning, on the day his mother died (speaking of the Mitchell Report). These guys need to dig deep and find a little of that pluck; if they can’t or won’t, then I won’t have much use for this team at all.

I’ve watched about 3/4 of the games this year. It’s just been painful all year. And when fate starts to let up – when we start to win and it looks like we might see October baseball – it turns out it was just jerking us around the whole time.

The bad news is that the Texans just looked awful against Pittsburgh. So that’s liable to be painful, as well.

And the Rockets look good, but I don’t want to say anything for fear of jinxing them. And basketball season doesn’t start for a month.

I just want to see the Astros and Texans and Rockets be good for a long stretch. I don’t want to be jerked around the whole year with the “will they won’t they” crap. I just want to, for once in my life, be able to rub it in people from Dallas’ faces. Is that too much to ask?

It was too much to expect playoff performances from a collection of elderly bench players (and Berkman, Lee, Oswalt, Pence, and Valverde).

Just embrace the fact that the Astros are doomed. It’s much easier.

Don’t get me wrong – I believe in the Good Guys. But maybe that belief isn’t as strong as it was a week ago.

Fortunately for Q, we don’t really have any good catching prospects ready. So, unless Towles suddenly becomes Piazza or the Astros sign Pudge, Q will probably get the starting job next year.

10 K’s for Oswalt.

:p

Sure it was a ground out.. but whatever.

4-4

bad time for that

and we’ll just lose some time…

Are the baseball gods on our side or not? After Ike and Bud hit, you’d think not, and yet here it’s the best case scenario as far as getting help. (Assuming the Cubs hang on to beat Milwaukee.)

that’s… that’s terrible.

Looks like the Astros might make the playoffs based on nothing but the Brewers’ and Mets’ complete breakdowns.

4-3 Cubs top 8