{"id":11148,"date":"2013-04-04T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:01:11","slug":"astros-meet-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2013\/04\/04\/astros-meet-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Meet Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Astros lose to Rangers 4-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W: Ogando (1-0)<br \/>\nL: Humber (0-1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>contributed by Sphinx Drummond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, a day game. A businessman\u2019s special. The euphoria that wafted through and around MMP Monday like napalm on a Vietnam delta circa 1967, had long dissipated and been replaced by the turd-like smell of a shitty baseball team. <\/p>\n<p>To hear most in the media and elsewhere, you\u2019d think the Astros were the worst team in baseball with the cheapest payroll. Well, maybe they are, but to me they are also a collection of brave young misfits who show fortitude and comraderie every time they take the field. The Astro players have to be aware of their low standing but they don\u2019t let it get them down, they continue to show up and make an effort in spite of the overwhelming odds. Plus as MLB players, they get paid well. And it&#8217;s baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday afternoon, Ranger starter Alexi Ogando picked up where Yu Darvish left off and proceeded to whiff one Astro after another. It was a horrible performance by the brave and outmatched Astro hitters, spoiling a good outing by Philip Humber who gave up only one run on five hits through 5 and 2\/3 innings. Ogando, who was pitching like his face had once caught on fire and somebody used an ice pick to put it out, was marvelous in picking up the win while striking out 10 courageous Astros before being relieved after 6 and 1\/3 innings. In all the Astros struck out a total of 15 times&#8211;quite the opposite of impressive, if you\u2019re still an Astro fan. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to evaluate the performance of a bad team &#8211; when they win they overachieve, when they lose they meet expectations. I don\u2018t see this team overachieving much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2018t see this team overachieving much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[202,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}