You’ve been waiting patiently for all of a couple of days for the announcement, so I won’t keep it from you much longer. One would think with a somewhat uninspired performance from the team on the whole, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone worthy of award recognition. Well, just the opposite, many players distinguished themselves last month. For the May Spike Award, the candidates were Michael Bourn, Chris Sampson and Lance Berkman. For the May Star Award, the candidates were Carlos Lee, Hunter Pence, Miguel Tejada and Wandy Rodriquez.
It wasn’t an easy choice for either award with so many worthy candidates, but the choices are in and here we go:
May 2009 Spike AwardThis
month’s Spike Award winner is none other than Michael Bourn. Tossing his body around the field all month long making some spectacular plays out in centerfield. At times it seemed he would not be able to avoid the DL unlike just about every other Astro player this year. That includes last month’s Spike Award winner too. Bourn has been every bit the break out player on the team that was predicted by GM Ed Wade, although methinks the break out was probably pointed towards his offense and not his defense. But defense isn’t lost around here, the young man is just simply outstanding out there taking care of the hard plays with ease and the impossible plays with awe inspired yells of “hell yeah!” from the SnS.
Honorable mention: Chris Sampson actually gave Bourn a run for the award, often pulling close in the voting only to see Michael walk away with the trophy.
May 2009 Star AwardWell lookee here,
we no more create the Star Award and we get our first ever two time winner. Wandy Rodriquez beat out some great competition on individual performance this month to carry away the helmet award. Wandy, although struggling a little bit towards the end of the month, still had enough great performances in May to keep himself front and center as the best Astros player on the squad. What can we say other than we have no intention of renaming the award to the “Wandy”, but who could blame us if we did?
Honorable Mention: Really, I’m surprised Hunter Pence did not just win this award in a landslide, but the SnS has spoken and Mr. Coffee is a mere brides maid for this month. Oh yeah, we know Tejada blah, blah, blah. Well, all we can say is well done… if you’re around this month and some of next, we hope you really keep up the great work. *wink, wink*