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Post by Ken on Mar 3, 2010 14:30:17 GMT -5
OK guys, I'm not the one to throw stones, admittedly I am even more guilty than all of you...but this place has died and we need some new life here. Season's starting, Astros don't have a chinaman's chance in hell of making any real waves this year, but that doesn't mean we can't check in here to cuss and discuss em every once in a while. If we're not going to log into this site anymore, At the very LEAST, we should hook up on facebook and trade barbs about the Stros from time to time! I don't even know if Coach is ALIVE anymore! If you have a FB account, look me up and "friend me" make sure to mention that you are from the Astros forum so's I don't think you're some kinda stalker or a perv...like Coach...I'm Kenneth Wayne Bradley (yeah, I know but I have to use the full moniker for acting reasons.) I'm even going to bring the Mrs. to the juice box this year...she has never been...and I'd like to meet a few of you ne'er-do-wells! www.facebook.com/kenbradley
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Post by 03flht2 on Mar 6, 2010 11:45:33 GMT -5
Its been so dead for so long, I often wonder if it will come back, and I never understood all the back biting going on, then again I guess I really don't know any of you guys personally
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Post by iowafan on Mar 6, 2010 13:02:44 GMT -5
I got pretty pissed off at the Astros the last couple of years. I will always be an Astro fan but I need some help from the Astros organization. I have no desire to end this forum. It got going a little last summer, and I kept plugging at it. But because of my life I have little time, and had trouble posting much this winter since I have lost much interest in the Astros. However I never really felt any problems with people on this forum. I hope they don't leave. Basketball is about over for me which is the only thing that really competes with baseball for me.
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Post by sadoug on Mar 6, 2010 18:53:32 GMT -5
As I live and breathe.....
I had quit bothering to look at this forum because everytime I did noone had posted for 6 months.
I never cared who was pissed at who, that stuff never bothered me, but I do like to see a little baseball talk every now and again.Careful what I wish for.....there has been damned little of late.....Anyway, new year, spring training has started, and I for one think the 'stros will be better than last year. Hell....they can be 5 or 6 games better and still finish last....but I boldly predict they will win more than 75 games this year.
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Post by jamesa46 on Mar 7, 2010 17:16:58 GMT -5
Somebody needs to breathe life into this team. The PR Dept. should have the team ride jackasses around the bases during 7th inning stretch to keep everyone awake.
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Post by sadoug on Mar 8, 2010 9:33:46 GMT -5
you know......I for some reason am somewhat hopeful for the future.We have the appearence of trying to build up the minor league system which we had mysteriously ignored for years.
I mean, who would have thought it? Signing your top draft choices? Amazing!...What a concept!
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Post by 03flht2 on Mar 8, 2010 15:29:09 GMT -5
Wade hasn't done much but this he has done, gotten the top draft choices signed- Minors are starting to look up
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Post by sadoug on Mar 8, 2010 15:56:23 GMT -5
honestly, I have liked what Wade has done so far with what he has had to work with. He seems to be able to sign pitchers that are pretty cheap and that eat up innings.I never reailed you could get any value from the boneyard...Mohler,Wolfe Byrdek....and a few roll players that have helped.....no great shakes, but at least he hasnt traded Joe Morgan
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Post by 03flht2 on Mar 9, 2010 8:19:05 GMT -5
Wasn't blaming Wade as this team was in shambles when he came in and he has one hand tied behind his back and the other in a sling from McLane's money people.
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Post by changeup on Mar 9, 2010 13:24:22 GMT -5
The first thing we need to do is to get a section that is entitled 2010 Season and get rid of the 2008 version. I had just about stopped coming here because it was dead. Like Ken, I have no idea if Coach is still alive or what. I hope he is doing well. Good to see JamesA around, and SAdoug, and Iowafan. We are all old time members of Astros boards. In case you don't recognize my username this is the former JBarron on the old boards. yeah, I'm still kicking......just a little slower than I used to be. I'm still mad as hell that we have a half-breed Muslim living in the White House. I'm still pissed that Drayton MacLane won't either sell the Astros or spend some money to make them competitive. All Wade did in the off-season was manage to lose the top 2 relief pitchers and Tejada, who was producing runs. He made no significant trades. He did his usual in signing washed up pitchers who need to go home. He needs to remember when it comes to this pitching staff that you can't make chicken salad from chicken sh*t.
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Post by 03flht2 on Mar 9, 2010 16:51:47 GMT -5
Coach came in here a while back and offered the reigns to who ever wanted then and I guess people were shy or whatever, and didn't take them. Maybe he will come back and someone can move the board foward
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Post by sadoug on Mar 9, 2010 17:00:04 GMT -5
Hi JB....Now I KNOW we are back on the beam.James, JB...That IS the old days.
JB...I am glad you are still around...I am glad you are still pissed...that means you still care just a little. JB and I disagree about why the astros are in the sh*tter, but we still get mad that we are, and that is what counts.For instance...JB thinks we suck because the owner is cheap. I disagree....I think we suck because the owner is stupid....Either way, it is spring training and baseball is about to start and it is a great time of year.
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Post by Ken on Mar 11, 2010 7:34:58 GMT -5
Looking damn good in Spring training...of course that doesn't mean jack sh*t. But hey Astros ST has sucked the last couple of years...so maybe this is an good omen. GREAT to see all of you! I used to have Coach's phone number awhile back, but that was several cell phones ago and one New years eve, I dropped my cell in a bucket of pine-o-pine (yes I was drunk) and all my contacts were lost! If anyone knows how to get in touch with him, let me know. I'd be happy to at least be the "interim" manager of this site until someone takes it over.
James - I feel ya brother. It just doesn't feel like the same Astros team we grew up on anymore. I have been feeling my interest wane for the last couple of years too...but...the thing that keeps me coming back is not so much the team anymore, but the sport. Baseball despite all it's flaws is still the greatest game ever invented.
I read a report the other day that baseball is hemorrhaging fans. Hardly anyone younger than 30 watches the game anymore. That's a damn shame. It's up to us older coots to keep the interest alive.
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Post by sadoug on Mar 11, 2010 8:25:18 GMT -5
Ya'll are so lame....and so damned spoiled.The 'stros lose a few games and ya'll lose interest.
This is gonna be like a "we used to have to walk 3 miles to school in the snow"
Ever heard of john Mayberry? He was the stud 1st baseman for the Royals and BlueJays in the 70'2....290 ave, 100 rbi's...25 or so homers a year etc......yeah....that guy.
he is the guy the dumbest general manager in the history of the game GAVE away so he could trade Joe Morgan(yeah...the guy in the Hall of Fame)..so he could get an identical guy to play 1st base......(indenical to john Mayberry...not Joe Morgan....HOF Joe Morgan)
The best team of the 70'2 never got to play together...I will NEVER let it go.
So just sit your lame asses down and admit you are Astro fans and therefore doomed to be pissed.
Play ball!!!
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Post by Ken on Mar 11, 2010 21:49:41 GMT -5
Well stated and point taken, Doug. However, my interest waning had nothing to do with them being losers...hell I'm USED to that! It had more to do with the identity crises the team suffered after Biggio retired. Berkman was hand picked to step in to the "Astro Team Leader" role and because of injuries and late season slumps, he just didn't fill the bill. Pence is a little too young still to fill the void and we only get to see Ozwalt every fourth day...that left us with Tejada...and while Miggy is certainly a great player...he just never seemed like an "Astro." In retrospect we see now that he wasn't an Astro...just another borrowed player on borrowed time who will wear the HOF uniform of another team.
Oh and just for the record...your 70's team that never got to play together? My nightmare is the 98 team. Best team in Astros history...better than the team that went to the WS. But there was one problem ...his name was Kevin Brown.
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