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General Discussion => Archive => Game Zone 2012 Archive => Topic started by: Mr. Happy on July 25, 2012, 05:53:21 pm
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Your lineups:
Dickities
SSZack Cozart
CFDrew Stubbs
RFJay Bruce
LFRyan Ludwick
3BScott Rolen
1BTodd Frazier
2BWilson Valdez
CDevin Mesoraco
PHomer Bailey
Astros
SS Marwin Gonzalez
2B Jose Altuve
CF Justin Maxwell
3B Chris Johnson
1B Scott Moore
LF J.D. Martinez
RF Brian Bogusevic
C Carlos Corporan
P Bud Norris
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Sparks? Toupee?
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In a recent pre-game interview, Cozart talked about the tradition of long tenures for Reds SS, citing Concepcion and Larkin.
For Cozart, I can't see it.
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Bud strikes out Cozart on three pitches. Moore apparently applied the tag, saving Gonzalez and error.
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Typical Norris. Three pitch strike out. Four pitch walk. All in the same inning.
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HPU already moving the strike zone around, in one inning.
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Don't the Reds have a SS prospect who's stolen, like, elevnty billion bases this season?
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Don't the Reds have a SS prospect who's stolen, like, elevnty billion bases this season?
Billy Hamilton, I believe.
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Don't the Reds have a SS prospect who's stolen, like, elevnty billion bases this season?
Yep. And they can't wait.
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Altuve!
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Altuve continues his hot streak. That one game rest did him wonders.
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Many suspect him to be a reincarnation. (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamilbi01.shtml)
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Billy Hamilton, I believe.
He's only stolen 120 or so.
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Typical for shit performance with runner on 3B with less than two outs. That gets old. Really.
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Yep, very old. But hey, they're a young team with very little talent. I've come to expect them to leave men on third with less than 2 outs.
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Bud gets up and down in order. His home and road splits portend well for tonight.
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I expect the Astros will lose tonight.
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The Serbian Slammer.
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Bogusevic with yet another ground ball to the right side, which the Reds, with a little help from Martinez, turns into a twin killing.
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I expect the Astros will lose tonight.
I'll go so far as to predict it.
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A Dr. Death reset.
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HPU sucks tonight. The zone is all over the place.
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Bud has some tough luck there. Fists a guy, who gets a dink hit. Then shatters a bat and just a well-placed foul ball.
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A dink double plates a run.
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Dammit!
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This team is not good
Nor will it be good, not soon
One hundred losses
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Hot chick in the stands
Boobs barely in her tube top
Hey dude, what's the score?
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Schreefer not playing
Not getting enough bong hits
Enough hits, I mean
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Our fans are all green
Strangely shaped, like stadium seats
At least they came out
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Patty Smith's kinda cute
If you're into that type thing
Middle-aged, with mole
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This has got to be frustrating for Bud
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Eight straight losses now
But the way the team has played
It should be nine soon
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J.D. and Brownie
Are entertaining, even now
Unlike Milo, etc.
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I'll go so far as to predict it.
I predict a win
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Three-and-a-half gone
Dickities are prevailing
Score 1 to zero
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I know for a fact
The Astros make Sartre sad
Albert Camus, too
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Existentialists
Are depressed; nihilists, too
This team brings one down
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The Astros suck balls
Plato the Greek and Rin-Tin-Tin
Are more famous, too
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I know for a fact
The Astros make Sartre sad
Albert Camus, too
You think? What about Pascal?
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Underwhelming
I turn next to nihilism
Drunk, and I don't care
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HPU hasn't called that all night but I'll take it. The hook by Norris, now has 7 Ks on the night.
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The Astros don't have an existential crisis - they clearly have an intended end to strive for, they just suck at getting there. That's a much more boring form of crisis than existence before essence.
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I long for past days
Of winning more than losing
Yvette was profound
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Hey, did RyanED attend U of H?
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Hey, did RyanED attend U of H?
Please ask your question in the form of a haiku.
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Our fans are all green
Strangely shaped, like stadium seats
At least they came out
Our seats are gay?
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Fat fuck from AD
Psycho Barzilla brown-nose
Is he a Cougar?
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Underwhelming
I turn next to nihilism
Drunk, and I don't care
Dude, at least it's an ethos.
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Fuckhouse on Twitter:
Cougar Night, need young boyfriend.
Sit down, gentlemen.
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Fat fuck from AD
Psycho Barzilla brown-nose
Is he a Cougar?
Fat fuck from AD
Psycho Barzilla brown-nose
He wants a cougar
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The Astros don't have an existential crisis - they clearly have an intended end to strive for, they just suck at getting there. That's a much more boring form of crisis than existence before essence.
Millsiavellianim: there may be ends, but there are no means that justify pursuing them, and the ends haven't been achieved in so long anyway that no one is quite sure what they are or entail anymore.
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Hey Mesoraco
Leave our baserunners alone
Play like Mizerock
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I look forward to
The recap to this shutout
It must be haiku
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Happ did well one day
Pitched a 4 hitter for 6
Next day he's a Jay
Bud dominates Reds
strikes out 7 in 7
Tomorrow he's a...
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Schreefer is alive
He is toking his lead now
Taking's what I mean
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HPU hasn't called that all night but I'll take it. The hook by Norris, now has 7 Ks on the night.
He's been all over the place tonight.
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Baseball's Mishima
inept, the Astros commit
nightly seppuku
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I vehemently disagree with Millsie's selection to pitch this inning.
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I vehemently
disagree with Millsie's sel-
ection to pitch now
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Reaching in the 'pen
Mills chooses the least dirty
From a pile of socks
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This team is so fucking terrible in every possible dimension it is impossible to fully comprehend.
MM said earlier that the Astros would be a .500 AAA club. I'd been thinking about that for a while, could they win in the PCL. I don't think so. The more I watch this team play the more I think they would have a worse record than the team that currently plays in OKC.
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Reaching in the 'pen
Mills chooses the least dirty
From a pile of socks
Angel of Doom in a close ballgame. This could turn out badly.
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Snyder is the best defensive catcher the team has and he is fucking horrible.
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On a powder keg
I'm just waiting for the spark
Then the explosion
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Angel of Doom in a close ballgame. This could turn out badly.
Sadly one run and an outfield assist by Bogey might have been best case scenario here.
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Snyder is the best defensive catcher the team has and he is fucking horrible.
He's god awful. Angel of Doom gets out with only one run scoring. Better than I thought, courtesy of the Bogusevic laser shot to the dish. Fuck you, Bruce. Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
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Punch-less and flaccid
The Astros offense is limp
And useless as, well ...
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Moore doubles home Altuve. 2-1 now with two outs to JD.
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Kittle visits the Dickities!!! 3-2!
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Little League home run.
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Prophetic I'm not
Just fuck me in the haiku
And send me away
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Go JD! That was fun!
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The Angel of Doom could win this game unless the fate is just AGAINST US> I DO not REPEAT not want to saee Cordero in the ninth.
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Cordero in... grumble grumble
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Snyder is the best defensive catcher the team has and he is fucking horrible.
And? Would you rather have Q for a bunch of meaningless games?
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This is easily the most entertaining GZ I can remember. Thank you.
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And? Would you rather have Q for a bunch of meaningless games?
As a matter of fact, yes, yes, I would. Better batting average and collossally better receiver.
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Coco may get by
And save this game for the 'Stros
But man, does he suck
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Cordero: not good at baseball.
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Can we seem this a failed experiment?
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Cordero is the new Angel of Doom. He's a closer all right. As a fucking agent for the opposing team.
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Cordero is the new Angel of Doom. He's a closer all right. As a fucking agent for the opposing team.
38 wins.
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Looking ahead to the bottom of the nintgh, what poor bastards have to face Chapman?
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What is it tonight with the failed lefty/lefty matchups?
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Missing Myers already. No reason to have Cordero on this team. DFA'd before the next game
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Maybe the Reds will score so many this inning that we won't get Chapman?
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It's okay, there's hope
Lefty Cuban coming in
Throwing one hundred ten
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Missing Myers already. No reason to have Cordero on this team. DFA'd before the next game
+1
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And? Would you rather have Q for a bunch of meaningless games?
No, I would much rather have bad players play in the place of competent ones. What the fuck? If there were any catchers in the organization I might like to see them play instead of veterans who literally could only find a job on the Astros. But since there are no catching prospects anywhere near ready where we are.
If he were on the team Quintero would be the best player on the Astros right now.
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Downs stood in bravely
Ran the count to three-and-two
Then struck out looking
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Snyder was next, natch
Took the first pitch off the wall
A one-out double
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It's okay, there's hope
Lefty Cuban coming in
Throwing one hundred ten
He doesn't have his best command but fucking HPU missed the 3-2 call. He has sucked balls all night. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never really what is a strike. That line got me run off of the mound not long before the merciful end of my denial league career.
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Marwin stood in next
From the right side, he surveyed
Some unhittable pitches
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If he were on the team Quintero would be the best player on the Astros right now.
I wish I were this drunk.
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Altuve 1-2
Gets fastball near the elbow
Then grounds to end game
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Last hope Altuve
Fought off numerous fast pitches
Then ground out to third
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Altuve puts up a battle and works the count full before 5-3 And tha's your final 5-3 BALLGAME
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Watching the replay of Stubbs double in the 9th. Sweet catch off the bounce on the wall by J Max.
Also to note, the pitch was right down the middle belt high.
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As if the whole league
Were the movie Midnight Run
Astros as Brad Davis
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Watching the replay of Stubbs double in the 9th. Sweet catch off the bounce on the wall by J Max.
That's it. Find the silver lining. I like that. Anything to get your mind off the fact that we've dropped nine in a row. Who's got tonight's thrilling recap?
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That's it. Find the silver lining. I like that. Anything to get your mind off the fact that we've dropped nine in a row. Who's got tonight's thrilling recap?
It seems that Dark Star
Has recapped the whole damn game
Via many haikus
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It seems that Dark Star
Has recapped the whole damn game
Via many haikus
Who has the recap?
I wonder who it will be.
There is a front page?
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Only one more week of this shit: http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120725&content_id=35560342¬ebook_id=35568950&vkey=notebook_hou&c_id=hou (http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120725&content_id=35560342¬ebook_id=35568950&vkey=notebook_hou&c_id=hou)
HOUSTON -- Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow hinted more roster moves could be on the horizon in the next few days, especially when the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline passes. The Astros have been shuffling players between Minor League affiliates in the last few days because of the trades they've made, and some players could be headed to Houston.
On Wednesday, the Astros promoted pitchers Jose Ciserno, Jarred Cosart and Jake Buchanan to Triple-A Oklahoma City from Double-A Corpus Christi and sent pitcher Paul Clemens to Corpus Christi from Oklahoma City.
"I've talked consistently about early August being a checkpoint for us, as far as our prospects' development," he said. "If we believe a prospect has done everything they need to do at that level and we want to challenge them a level ahead, we're going to go ahead and do that over the month of August. We'll be constrained by who's at what level, but there will be some moves."
Luhnow admitted there are some players performing at Triple-A Oklahoma City who deserve a shot to be evaluated at the Major League level in the same fashion some of the current Astros are getting. Any possible roster moves at the Major League level could be impacted by waivers, however.
Luhnow didn't give specific names, but the players on the roster who are currently out of options are pitchers Wesley Wright and Lucas Harrell and outfielders Brian Bogusevic and Jordan Schafer.
"It's one of the tough decisions we're going to need to make in the next week or two because there are some players that we can't move back to Triple-A without risking losing them," Luhnow said. "So you have to decide carefully how you do that. Not only that, but we have constraints here and positional requirements.
"In an ideal match, we would probably mix and match a bigger group and give everybody an opportunity up here to be evaluated in the last two months. There are realistic constraints that prevent us from doing that as much as we'd like to, but we're going to work around those."
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Harmonize, you cur
or suffer the fate of Queen
Rama lama ding dong
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I had it recorded and went through it fast. Slowed down for both the glory and the gore. As usual, felt like I had seen it before.
Some very nice work here in the game zone, especially Dark Star. Thanks.
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I had it recorded and went through it fast. Slowed down for both the glory and the gore. As usual, felt like I had seen it before.
Some very nice work here in the game zone, especially Dark Star. Thanks.
I concur about Dark Star. The rest of us are mere mortals. Dark Star is a hai-fucking-ku God.
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No, I would much rather have bad players play in the place of competent ones. What the fuck? If there were any catchers in the organization I might like to see them play instead of veterans who literally could only find a job on the Astros. But since there are no catching prospects anywhere near ready where we are.
If he were on the team Quintero would be the best player on the Astros right now.
No shit. What purpose would he have served?
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No shit. What purpose would he have served?
What's the purpose of having a well above average defensive catcher on a baseball team? Fuck, I have no idea.
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No shit. What purpose would he have served?
Well, let me ask you this, genius. What possible good is a .175 hitting catcher who catches like shit? At least Q hit over the Mendoza line. About the only thing that Snyder seems to do well is handle pitchers, but Q was as good or better at that. In the grand scheme of things, I strongly suspect that Snyder's Houston/UH ties gave him the nod over Q at the end of spring training.
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What's the purpose of having a well above average defensive catcher on a baseball team? Fuck, I have no idea.
On this team?
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On this team?
It seems to me that if the most you can hope for on any given night is 3 runs or less, an above average defensive catcher might be a good thing to have.
My silver lining for this game was this: If Cordero hadn't blown the save, I wouldn't have gotten to see Altuve bat against Chapman. A guy who has a K rate of almost 18/9IP going up against the little man with the supernatural hand-eye who never strikes out. That was a really fun AB to watch, even if it didn't end the way I would've liked.
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I wouldn't have gotten to see Altuve bat against Chapman. A guy who has a K rate of almost 18/9IP going up against the little man with the supernatural hand-eye who never strikes out.
I'm not sure which Jose Altuve you've been watching.
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Baseball by haiku... even with a loss, it's brilliant.