Houston Astros at Atlanta Braves, May 2, 2009 2:40 PM CDT

national television

nice to see

3rd-best player on the Astros

feelings about that…. mixed

you could just feel that one coming

Just over the left field wall. Even the (awful) announcers couldn’t believe it.

christ these announcers suck. No chemistry. Talking over one another

there’s your problem

and they repeat it here with the caveat – he hasn’t faced them since 2005. Weird, though we don’t play the Braves very much (because the MLB scheduler don’t give a shit about fostering any sort of rivalries)

cool

Didn’t he do this during that spring start, too?

That catch was a spectacular example of that.

On radar it looks heavy for a short period of time

hurry up and strike out so we can get this game in, dammit

the Astros offense gets clicking, and the rain comes in

had the good sense to build a roof on our new stadium

are continued and played another day.

Their summers are like ours – charitably described as “like sitting in the devil’s armpit.”

bases loaded (2 out, though) and Reyes up.

for getting, I think, 36 million for 3 years of Ollie with no other teams very interested in him, at least publicly. A fair number of Brewers fans wanted him.

does my heart good

with this stupid caricature shit from the Fox broadcasters, Fox broadcasters are easily the boring, incompetent, painfully white version of the TNT NBA crew.

Moyer fell down. DP to end the inning

What exciting baseball

Mets-Phillies game is on.

Astros -Braves game to continue later

Hard to pick a winner. I’m not so sure the wildcard will come out of the East like everyone thought.

Brilliant.

it’s games like these that show me why so many people in America think baseball is boring.

WTF? Did they get the ghost of Orwell to write that?

I think this one is my favorite:

In the early 1980s, the Oakland A’s accounting department was freaking out. The books were off $1 million. After an investigation, it was determined Rickey was the reason why. The GM asked him about a $1 million bonus he had received and Rickey said instead of cashing it, he framed it and hung it on a wall at his house.

Francoeur doubles on first pitch

Hmmm

Rain took out both starting pitchers

Francouer scored

Tie game

Pitches are all over the place – from very high to in the dirt

(not counting 2 hits, a walk, a wild pitch and a run scored)

but do not score as double play ends the inning

Base hit

Carlos Lee scored go ahead run

Subject: This is how stupid your team is…

Carlos Lee has a brother named Carlos and has named his two sons Carlos and Karlos?

WHY?
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I know it sounds bad, but the fact that she emailed that to me means that she’s either watching the game or is Wikipediaing information about the Astros…and given that I’ve been trying to convert her to a baseball fan, this email sounds like progress.

can broadcast a Weather Alert for most of the past 4 hours when we don’t even have rain or wind in the county. I looked up to see them talking about bad weather in Mississippi that is ’only" 86 miles from the Alabama state line.

Folks in Kingville, Alabama, are seeing golf ball size hail now.

I wasn’t paying attention but there’s a runner on first (Schaeffer) – no outs – now one out as Schaeffer picked off first by Byrdak

single the other way.

good aggressiveness, but a poor jump. He never really gave himself a chance there.

In the thread yesteeday on Paulino as reliever clack wrote:

 "Third, I may be wrong about this, but I don’t see Paulino as closer material. He doesn’t seem to get a lot of K’s on his fastball. He will get Ks when he has a good change and curveball and mixes them with the fastball. He has been shaky for the first couple of batters in each 1st inning so far. "

Clack’s observation bore out today as Paulino allowed two hits on his first two pitches. (but he did strike out the side too) (and a walk and wild pitch)

First time batting in about a week
Batting over .400

Flies out to center

Berkman to first (Bourn to seond)
 2 outs

somehow he picks up ball to throw to first for out three

Stays on ground for a time but walks off the field

2 outs

Somehow he’s 3-0 for the woeful Washington Nationals, winning 6-1 today against the St Louis Cardinals

Berkman is batting .400 in his last 5 at bats – with a homer.

5-1 Astros in the ninth

From “When Harry Met Sally”… I’ll have whatever he’s been having!

3 outs and I can turn the sound up for the Weather Alert Broadcast (Parrish, Cameron and Yerkwood, Alabama, in the storm path now)

First out grounder to LaTroy

87 on his curve

 Byrdak the reliever who is given the win