26 May 2007
No management changes for Astros
Astros owner Drayton McLane said GM Tim Purpura and Manager Phil Garner are staying put as the Astros try to find a way to win.
And the Chron's Richard Justice asks for reader participation:
You be GM of the Astros for a day. It's not like you'd do any worse. Tell me how you'd fix this mess.
Get Tom Kirkendall on staff. ASAP!
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 05/26/07 07:07 AM | Technorati | Comments (0)
19 May 2007
What does this sentence mean?
Brian McTaggart's lede tonight on Chron.com:
Big innings in baseball usually involve and few extra-base hits and perhaps a home run or two, but the Astros took a different route to piling up the runs to beat the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.
Huh?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/19/07 10:21 PM | Technorati | Comments (0)
18 May 2007
Blinebury's such a tease
Fun headline seen on Chronicle sports reporter Fran Blinebury's NBA blog:
I clicked over from my RSS reader hoping for a brawl between Blinebury and his Chronicle colleague.
Alas, it was a mostly personal attack on Rockets GM Daryl Morey.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/18/07 09:54 PM | Technorati | Comments (0)
Yankee reliever rips Clemens "family plan"
The AP reports that one Yankee player has come out against the Roger Clemens "family" rule:
New York reliever Kyle Farnsworth thinks no one on the Yankees, not even Roger Clemens, should be allowed to leave the team when they aren't pitching.
Farnsworth was on Chicago's 670 AM The Score on Thursday morning when he first criticized the so-called "family plan" clause in Clemens' one-year, $28 million contract that allows the right-hander to leave the team for personal matters when he's not pitching.
Farnsworth reiterated his beliefs in the clubhouse before the Yankees' 4-1 loss to the White Sox.
"As far as a teammate and a player, I think everybody should be here whether they're pitching or not," he said. "You don't see guys who are hurt not sit on the bench. They're always there."
Even so, Farnsworth doesn't think it's going to be a problem and didn't foresee any clubhouse tension over preferential treatment for one of the game's greatest pitchers.
"It's just an opinion of mine. I don't think it's a concern at all," he said. "You guys asked my opinion about it and I gave it."
Farnsworth will like the "family plan" even less when he sees Clemens hanging out at celebrity golf tourneys during "family" time away from the team.
Of course, when Phil Garner recently mentioned the contradiction involved in Clemens' spending "family" time away from the Astros at the golf course, some members of our local media didn't think that was very nice of Garner -- which revealed quite a bit about the "nice" coverage of sports in this town as opposed to other towns.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/18/07 08:08 AM | Technorati | Comments (0)
16 May 2007
Pence
That Hunter Pence kid isn't doing too bad, eh?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/16/07 09:35 PM | Technorati | Comments (6)
08 May 2007
I'm not a Drayton McLane fan
Is it any wonder that Rocket signed with the Yanks instead of the Astros?
Justice drops this nugget:
The Astros recently told [Clemens] they wouldn't grant him another year of special travel arrangements.
Well, gee, the Astros managed to screw up and make Andy Pettitte feel unwelcome, and then they wouldn't continue the existing arrangement?
Of course Roger isn't coming back to Houston. If I were Roger, I wouldn't come back to the Astros and their pathetic hitting either. And McLane is to blame.
Posted by Evan @ 05/08/07 01:20 PM | Technorati | Comments (1)
Bad Sports program (2007-05-07 edition)
There is a new Bad Sports BlogTalkRadio presentation available for download here.
In this one, Ethan Glading and I carry on mostly about the Rocket and the Rockets, with the usual rambling and asides mixed in.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/08/07 11:41 AM | Technorati | Comments (6)
01 May 2007
Bad Sports program (2007-04-30 edition)
Last night's Bad Sports program is available for download here.
In this one, we carry on about the NFL draft (mainly the Texans with a little Kevin Kolb thrown in), the putrid Jazz/Rockets series, the putrid Astros, and more.
In fact, we could pretty much call this week's edition Putrid Sports.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/01/07 11:15 PM | Technorati | Comments (0)
ADVERTISING
DISCLAIMER
All content © 2004-09, blogHOUSTON and the respective authors.
blogHOUSTON.net is powered by Nucleus.
Site design and Nucleus customization are by Kevin Whited.