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[impala454]

lookin pretty good for the last week or so. won 5 in a row, and it looks like that huge offense they were supposed to have has finally kicked in. that berkman tejada lee combo is gonna be nasty if these guys can keep it goin. not to mention the pitching hasn't been nearly as bad as everyone predicted.

[impala454]

Mmmmk they're retarded. Gotta get your stupid ass shot in at them even when they're doing well. Pull your nose outta the stats once in a while and watch the baseball and you might actually enjoy it.

[Oasis]

Mmmmk they're retarded. Gotta get your stupid ass shot in at them even when they're doing well. Pull your nose outta the stats once in a while and watch the baseball and you might actually enjoy it.

Yeah, I figured you'd overreact and take that as a personal affront to your lousy team.

My roommate is a huge Astros fan so I've watched nearly every game this season. I don't need stats to tell me Jose Valverde is lousy, has little command of his pitches, and is gonna blow a ton of save opportunities. Your other pitchers besides Oswalt suck as well. Dave Borkowski, Doug Brocail, Shawn Chacon, Brandon Backe, Chris Sampson, Jack Cassel, Wandy Rodriguez, Wesley Wright, Felipe Paulino, Geoff Geary, Tim Byrdak.

Do you honestly think any of those pitchers would be starting for a contender like Arizona or Boston? Chacon might be a spot starter, Rodriguez and Paulino might be 5th starters, and the rest would either get mop up middle relief duty or be relegated to triple A. And that's pretty much your entire pitching roster

I love Astros fans and their inferiority complex. Then again, I guess it's easy to get an inferiority complex when you haven't won jack shit in the 40 plus years of your franchise's history


EDIT: And what do you personally call it when a pitching starved team trades away two of their best young pitchers (Both Albers and Patton were ranked in BA's Top 10 organizational prospects), not to mention a decent hitter with 25 home run potential, for a shortstop who was rumored to be named in the Mitchell Report (and like clockwork, two days after the trade was named in the Mitchell Report) on the downswing of his career production wise? Oh, not to mention he plays a position where defensive production deteriorates at a rate much higher than other positions with age. Oh yeah, and it turns out he lied about his age, and he's actually 33, not 31. Most rational people would call that "retarded." Then again, you aren't most people and you aren't the most rational person in the world.

Dunno how long Tejada's contract is, but short stops start being a defensive liability around age 35-36. So you got about two or three more seasons before he'd be better served as a DH. Oh, wait, Houston plays in the NL where there is no designated hitter. Guess he'll switch to the outfield, where regardless of his offensive production or how the players Baltimore got in return pan out, will devalue him to the point that this trade will look retarded in retrospect.