shawn chacon Stories - The Crawfish Boxes
The MLBPA has stones
The baseball union is filing a grievance on behalf of Shawn Chacon. Chacon, you may remember, went all Latrell Sprewell on Astros g.m. Ed Wade, leading to Chacon being released, and his contract terminated under the "don't act like an a-hole" clause (I'm paraphrasing, of course). The union says...
News and Notes
A bunch of things went down while I was traveling: -P- Ian Snell is headed to the DL, mostly, I gather, as a move to grab some roster space and allow Snell a couple days off. T.J. Beam went back to the minors, and Jimmy Barthmaier and Ty Taubenheim have been promoted. Those two guys will start...
Shawn Chacon weirdness
Shawn Chacon is starting for the Astros tonight against Sidney Ponson. Two journeyman pitchers who have had some success in the past, have been largely mediocre in their careers, and who have gotten off to good starts this year. I noticed something weird about Chacon today, though...he's 0-0 on...
Houston Astros Win 4 Straight : Move Above .500 and into 3rd Place
You read that right... The Houston Astros are FINALLY over the .500 mark with a 17-16 record and sit in sole possession of 3rd place in the NL central with the Brewers losing to the Marlins 3-0. What a game!!! I don't really even know where to start, but I guess it would be wrong to start...
Astros Lose 4 of Last 5 : Fall to 3 Under .500
As Rob Schneider says, "We suck again!" today as we watched our bull pen ruin another outing by Shawn Chacon. I'm not even going to say that Chacon was good today, but he did leave the game with the Astros ahead... so that's at least something. Chacon had by far his worst outing of the season...
Wow...
Wow....It's like Yogi says... It's like deja-vu, all over again. Maybe I'm just a ignorant, but I don't see why managers(specifically Garner over the last few seasons and now Cooper), pull a starting pitcher out of game when they have yet to give up a run and have a pitch count under 10,000... ...
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