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Title: new Astros slogan
Post by: JimR on May 24, 2007, 08:57:20 am
"We cure what ails your team."
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: matadorph on May 24, 2007, 09:03:28 am
"Your pitcher could be a Cy Young winner."
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: JimR on May 24, 2007, 09:08:22 am
"Your pitcher could be a Cy Young winner."


watching Zito last night confirmed my belief that if i were LH, i'd still be pitching.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: MikeyBoy on May 24, 2007, 09:11:54 am
"We cure what ails your team."

They are currently the Anna Benson of Major League Baseball. They travel around city to city, letting entire baseball teams fuck them.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: TenThirty on May 24, 2007, 09:15:54 am
"Return to the Dugout of the Good Guys"
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Limey on May 24, 2007, 09:21:39 am
They are currently the Anna Benson of Major League Baseball. They travel around city to city, letting entire baseball teams fuck them.

I've never met Ms Benson, but I imagine the way the Astros stink is pretty close.
Title: I thought it was...
Post by: ybbodeus on May 24, 2007, 09:22:47 am
"Oh, dad, poor dad!  Mom has locked your offense in the closet, and we're feeling so sad!"

It's no longer, "You know, some day this war's gonna END..." for certain.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Fredia on May 24, 2007, 09:35:34 am
"We cure what ails your team."
Ignore the smoke, mirrors and the rest of the team behind the curtain... keep your eyes on  hunter pence
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: geezerdonk on May 24, 2007, 09:54:12 am
Pretend To Contend
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Mr. Happy on May 24, 2007, 10:04:09 am
watching Zito last night confirmed my belief that if i were LH, i'd still be pitching.

I thought that it was just me. Zito didn't look special last night. But we couldn't hit him.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: JimR on May 24, 2007, 10:20:53 am
I thought that it was just me. Zito didn't look special last night. But we couldn't hit him.

his CB is special. his FB is 83-84.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Limey on May 24, 2007, 10:21:16 am
I thought that it was just me. Zito didn't look special last night. But we couldn't hit him.

He gave up 13 runs in his previous two starts.  He's not fooling anyone...except the Astros.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: ybbodeus on May 24, 2007, 11:04:08 am
The Houston Astros.....endeavor to persevere!
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Jacksonian on May 24, 2007, 11:14:24 am
He gave up 13 runs in his previous two starts.  He's not fooling anyone...except the Astros.

Did they really looked fooled or just inept?
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Mr. Happy on May 24, 2007, 11:20:11 am
Did they really looked fooled or just inept?

Can anyone else smell a hitting coach change in the not-so-distant future? Garner hasn't been bashful about making changes in his coaching staff.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: pravata on May 24, 2007, 11:21:36 am
Did they really looked fooled or just inept?

Lee hit the ball hard 3 times.  Lane, the pop ups were very bad, but didn't have to be Zito for that to happen.  Biggio, Loretta, were exactly what you'd expect.  Pence was fooled on the breaking stuff.  Ensberg looked fooled on his first atbat but was hacking after that. 
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: MusicMan on May 24, 2007, 11:22:57 am
Lane, the pop ups were very bad, but didn't have to be Zito for that to happen. 

I'm getting sick and fucking tired of Lane admiring his routine fly balls as if he were the Red Messiah.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Noe on May 24, 2007, 11:33:08 am
I'm getting sick and fucking tired of Lane admiring his routine fly balls as if he were the Red Messiah.

It's amazing how he can look like he can mash a baseball but the end result is warning track power.  Too much upper cut in his swing.  Classic low ball hitter who won't hit a middle to high fastball squarely.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Limey on May 24, 2007, 11:51:04 am
Did they really looked fooled or just inept?

Inept.  His heater was up and slow.  They hit it at people when they hit it, but they mostly mis-hit it, or took it only to get fucked by the big hook later.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Bench on May 24, 2007, 11:54:34 am
He gave up 13 runs in his previous two starts.  He's not fooling anyone...except the Astros.

Interesting note in Olney's ESPN pay-per-blog: http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=olney_buster

Basically he points out that in Zito's prior start, Oakland (who know him very well) loaded their lineup with their big lefty hitters, and relegated the righthanders who are usually featured against lefties to the margins of the batting order or the bench. Zito struggled horribly against the lefties. Going into last night, lefties hit him at a .309 clip with a .491 slugging percentage, while righties were limited to a .218 BA and .327 slugging. The Astros, by contrast, went with the all-righthanded lineup and were shut down.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Limey on May 24, 2007, 11:55:54 am
Interesting note in Olney's ESPN pay-per-blog: http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=olney_buster

Basically he points out that in Zito's prior start, Oakland (who know him very well) loaded their lineup with their big lefty hitters, and relegated the righthanders who are usually featured against lefties to the margins of the batting order or the bench. Zito struggled horribly against the lefties. Going into last night, lefties hit him at a .309 clip with a .491 slugging percentage, while righties were limited to a .218 BA and .327 slugging. The Astros, by contrast, went with the all-righthanded lineup and were shut down.

Do you really think it matters with this lineup?
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: utastro on May 24, 2007, 04:57:07 pm
"We cure what ails your team."

The Flatstros.  Or PENCE!!! and the 7 dwarves.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Navin R Johnson on May 24, 2007, 05:40:15 pm
With any luck at all the Stros would have scored 5-6 runs last night.   There were a ton of atom balls, Zito is really ordinary.   It didnt help matters that we put out our worst possible lineup sans playing OP for Lee, or starting some of our pitchers as position players.

Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: MRaup on May 24, 2007, 05:41:12 pm
2007: The Return of the Good Guys... We Miss the Rat Bastards.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: ybbodeus on May 24, 2007, 05:48:17 pm
It's amazing how he can look like he can mash a baseball but the end result is warning track power.  Too much upper cut in his swing.  Classic low ball hitter who won't hit a middle to high fastball squarely.

A lot like me on the golf course, where my friends refer to my game as sneaky short.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: Random on May 24, 2007, 06:39:58 pm
2007 Astros:  Almost Talented.
Title: Re: new Astros slogan
Post by: The Spleen on May 24, 2007, 06:48:11 pm
You pay.
We suck.
20 million johns can't be wrong...