Houston Astros at Milwaukee Brewers, Sep 20, 2009 1:05 PM CDT

He does start today (and Chirs Johnson doesn’t )

According to the MLB.TV schedule four teams will not broadcast away games on television today:

Florida
San Diego
Toronto
Kansas City

I recall last Sunday the Pirates did not broadcast its away game

ugh

Grounder to short

before the game. Both had big smiles.

3-0 Brewers

Paulino off to a terrible start

Fly Ball to Hunter Pence

Ball bounces off edge of his glave and he plops or slides awkwardly

Finally

Reds lead the Marlins 4-0 in the fifth

2 on ; no outs

Lee to third

And I still shake when I think the name Tim Purpura

to end a scoreless second for the Astros.

JD presents him with a cake

In rough order of importance, he needs to work on adding a little sink to his fastball, keeping it down in the strike zone, and hiding the ball a little better. I suspect he would have a lot more success if he did at least two of those three things.

Right now—and this happens in his successful starts too—he has a strong tendency to give up the long ball because his fastball is so straight, and for whatever reason, so “seeable” to the hitters… and he has a tendency to leave it up in the zone.

nevermind – Tejada popped to left

4-0 Brewers

Paulion had settled in after that rough first –
then this shot out of the blue

Many TCB Commenters seemingly expect Quintero will not return to Astros next season.

I think there’s a very good chance he returns.

to end the inning.

Texans and Titans in a scoring extravaganza – 31- 24 halfway through the third quarter

(good thing Paulino picked off Corey Hart earlier in the inning)

I’ll be back after I get there

I tuned back in when I got to the office. JD was in the middle of a story about the Chicken runs at midnight and how Craig Counnel was called Chickenman.

I googled the story and found the following link. The story is far down the page (the last third of the article) but worth reading

http://www.lindamojer.com/04web_bkup/racqmag/2003/236/236feature.htm

Wilton Lopez pitching

Good offense, bod defense

Cubs and Cardinals face each other tonight on TV

walk, single

5-0

with Chad Paronto in the bullpen (and Astros down 5-0)

keeping runners on second and third

So naturally
Cooper brings Byrdak in to relieve him

for “Chickenman” Craig Counsel

Foul ball

Brewers scored the winning runs before they made their first out of the game.

Astros working on being shut out for the 12th time this year.

They get to go home to some salty men as the superbowl bound Packers went down to the Bengals.

The bobble head is a guy in tan pants and dark blue shirt holding a cell phone to his ear

Got Swept two series in a row

Cubs have had enough of Milton Bradley and are sending him home for the season:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10100700/Cubs-suspend-OF-Bradley-for-rest-of-season

 I find this story so fascinating because in the preseason predictions at TCB I said Cubs should win easily but I could see them falter because among other reasons Milton Bradley is a walking timebomb that will explode under the media glare of Chicago. He did several times during the season; but this is even more dramatic than I could foresee.