Aug 11, 2009: Same lineup used on consecutive days. Mark it down.Roy needs to be the Stopper today.
Nice play by Tejada.
fuckinshit!
astros need to score more than one anyway.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Dozens of people were probably laughing in the stands.
At???
Pence's bumbling slide into second with two outs, after being fooled that a throw was coming in.
Did you see Pudge screaming at him when he was on 2B? I distinctly read the word "bullshit" on his lips.
El Caballo has to be the most ironic nickname for Carlos Lee ever.
Hey, nobody said he was a race horse. More like a Clydesdale.
They have an idiot in CF.
Their manager is an idiot too, unless he's making a double switch.
What's the Spanish word for truck?
Vin Scully expects to work one more season and then retire.
What the fuck was that?
E6 they scored it a hit
Roy's throwing hard but he seems to be laboring more now. Six innings is a lot to expect from him tonight.
What? (following along via GameDay)
Hunter seems to have difficulty tracking the ball tonight, must be the 9 mph wind.
Pence chased a flare to shallow RF and veered hard to his left at the last second and dove for it, still missed it by several feet but it was shallow enough to only be a single. Looked like a bad route to the ball.
That was a tough walk but Big Jeff wasn't giving in and Hermida wasn't chasing... better than a hit
That was all Miggy could do.
"Astros fans have had a lot of opportunities to question Cecil Cooper." - Marlins TV monkeys.
From McTaggart's in-game tweets:"Oswalt gets pep talk from Coop. Sure he appreciated that."
I wonder if Pence and Cooper play each other in chess
I wonder if Cooper he gave him a pat?
I'm surprised Blum did not get tossed.
I am too, but it would've been the only way to see Kepp or Kata play.Blum got screwed.
Many people have. This strike zone is not consistent.
ump handled that well
McTaggart is hell-bent on being a fucktard:
Geoff Blum may be this team's MVP, relative to expectations.
Bourn??
Fucking twin killing Pence.
Pence with the tailor-made DP. He is KILLING this team. But let's order up another round of Hunter's Lodge t-shirts!!
He's officially Mr. Rollover.
he's pulling the ball in RBI situations, just like Coop told him to do.
Because Byrdak is a good pitcher.
Why is Byrdak in this game?
And often on the first pitch, so he's being aggressive.
We've got an infielder playing LF in a tie game. Why PH Michaels? Why didn't he double switch Pence, who made the last out? God Damnit.
They are. Coop double-switched, but he did it for Kata, instead of Pence, with Kepp going to LF (instead of the far more sensible Erstad to LF, Blum to 1b, Kepp to 3b, which would keep guys in positions they actually play...)
I hope somebody asks him those questions in the post-game. I'd love to see his answers.
he could still put Erstad in the outfield, Blum on 1B and Kepp on 3B. I don't mind not switching out Pence, as they might need a big fly later and Lee was already gone.
You're obviously drinking, my good man. Too predictable or obvious for that baseball genius Cooper.
Isn't the bench coach supposed to help put with shit like this?
Ed Romero is either gagged or incompetent.
incompetent most likely
Here's an inneresting ditty...http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4392828
So, a new coaching opportunity opens up?
The Astros are 3-6 in extra inning games this year.
I'm not sure he didn't beat the tag. The throw was great and beat the runner by ten feet, but it looked like Pudge was late getting the tag down.Who cares, let's score some runs.
Matsui sucks left-handed.
.228 going into tonight
I'm surprised Johnson is not bunting here. Odd.
Okay, got my reason why. The fish were going to steal the base instead. Good move. Wright is in a whole lotta trouble now.
I love JD. NTTAWWT!
"I'm glad I wasn't pitching tonight. I'd given up 11 runs and gotten ejected."
Priceless. Why is he bringing in Arias with the bases juiced?
Okay, what is the over/under that Cooper calls this "the worse loss of the year!" (just like the 40 other times he's said the same thing)
Fuckers. Shitfuck.Great game, Coop.
Not excusing the shitty managing and even shittier pitching, but for fuck's sake, are there NO decent home plate umpires left? HP ump tonight couldn't have found the outside corner with a map and a flashlight.
that guy may have been the worst ever. the outside corner and the knee-high strike were closed all night.
Made for some great JimmyD running commentary. He saved the best for last "If I were pitching, I would have been ejected tonight".
It says a lot when a guy can drop his bat on strike 3 (that was 6 inches outside, which hasn't been and wasn't at any other point of a game a strike), turn around, and blatantly question the strike zone for a solid couple of minutes before the HP ump tell him that's enough. Dude either is completely clueless or knew he was sucking it up.
I think because Blum probably didn't question the strike call. He questioned whether the umpire had been calling that all night. "Hey, that has not been a strike all night long, now it is?" "Yep" "Okay, but why now, with me? Did I do something to show you up or something?" "Nope" "Okay, so since it is a strike and I don't disagree, then I guess we can expect that to be a strike all the rest of the night?" "Yep" "Okay, you have a good night sir..." "thanks"Or something like that.
