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Post by changeup on Apr 16, 2010 16:06:53 GMT -5
Notice how the Rangers have steadily improved since Nolan Ryan became president of the team. They are developing good, young pitching to go along with their hitting. Before long, the Astros will be known as a minor league team if Drayton doesn't sell.
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Post by iowafan on Apr 16, 2010 17:18:26 GMT -5
Nolan Ryan is a special guy. That was a guy who should have retired in an Astros uniform. Instead we get stuck with Clemens. I am sorry Clemens fans, he was a great pitcher who lacked in the brains department.
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Post by cangrejero on Apr 18, 2010 20:38:10 GMT -5
Texas made 2 big trades and got great young talent, ASStros instead traded our SS/2b Zobrist and a good pitcher for a 2 month rental.
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Post by changeup on Apr 19, 2010 11:11:16 GMT -5
Unfortunately, trades like the one for Zobrist is what the Astros are known for. Letting Johann Santana walk in the Rule 5 draft was another dumb move on their part. Draytie wouldn't ante up to keep Pettitte and he went back to the Yankees. What did Purpura do to replace Pettitte.......trade for Jason Jennings. Jenning sucked and got bombed out of Houston. The Rangers took him and then let him go. Draytie let Hunsicker go because he wanted to improve the team and gave the job to Purpura, a fat little "yes man" who would simply do as Draytie asked and be quiet. This team will continue to go downhill as long as Draytie is the owner.
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Post by sadoug on Apr 19, 2010 19:06:48 GMT -5
Petete was horrible here. He had about the same number of quality starts as Jennings. Purpura was truely a terrible GM, but one of the worst signings in Astro history was Petite.
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Post by cangrejero on Apr 19, 2010 22:16:47 GMT -5
Letting Hun go was a big mistake, he left to Tampa and look were they are right now.
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Post by sadoug on Apr 20, 2010 8:37:46 GMT -5
I agree completely.I dont think Hun was fired as much as he was disgusted that hw wasnt allowed full rein over player decisions as he should have been, as he was the only true baseball man in the Astro hierarchy.
It is a shame to be a fan of an organization where the owner becomes jealous of the success of the coach(see Dallas cowboys running Jimmy johnson) or gM (Hunsicar and the Astros) and what happens to once successful franchises after that happens.
Wouldnt it be great to have owners that were smart enough to hire good people to run their teams and then stay smart enough to let them do it. What we need is an owner that likes to get drunk, entertain his wealthy friends at the games, and bask in the bragging rights, and not feel jeopardized by the success of his team.
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Post by texiban001 on Apr 20, 2010 13:58:57 GMT -5
Couldn't have said it better Doug. Houston teams, with the exception of the Rockets, have never let the GM make decisions. The troll known as Butt Adams was always hovering over his GM's and McMullet NEVER let the GM's do anything until he could figure out how many beers he would have to sell to make the fans forget his many disasterous seasons.
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Post by iowafan on Apr 20, 2010 19:48:18 GMT -5
Drayton is on my list for most hated people. I can take bad owners, but not on the Astros. They have always been my team and I am really tired of Drayton screwing them up.
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Post by sadoug on Apr 24, 2010 8:26:00 GMT -5
The Rangers have improved?..They are one game better than the Astros.
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Post by iowafan on Apr 24, 2010 20:49:35 GMT -5
Well, you have to admit, the whole scenario has been changing pretty rapidly these days. Rodriguez had a good start tonight. We still aren't hitting except when we have help from pitching like we saw tonight. They didn't have much confidence in that starter. Still it is important to send out those negative vibes. I think they should have let Towles pad his batting average tonight. The fatter catcher only managed one hit.
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Post by sadoug on Apr 24, 2010 21:55:30 GMT -5
really, our pitching has been pretty good, starting and bully. Our hitting has been as bad as we feared, but other than the routinely spectacular Bourne, our defense has been fairly dismal.
What has become apparant is that we can hold our own against the bad teams, and thats good.Perhaps we will have a bit of confidence when we next play the big boys again.
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Post by iowafan on Apr 25, 2010 19:57:26 GMT -5
At least, like you say, it is getting to be an enjoyable season. I think that guy is doing a fair job managing too. I liked the thing tonight about him taking Myers out with 90 pitches. That was the right thing to do. You have a starter that is giving you decent starts you dont want to risk him any more than you have to. I think he should be playing Towles more though.
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Post by changeup on Apr 27, 2010 11:38:39 GMT -5
Drayton is on my list for most hated people. I can take bad owners, but not on the Astros. They have always been my team and I am really tired of Drayton screwing them up. Draytie is.......and always has been..........an idiot when it comes to building a baseball team. We had a good team for awhile because he was smart enough to listen to Hunsicker. Then, when he saw that Hunsicker was getting the credit for building the team, he decided to let him go and hire that fat, little yes man, Timmy Purpura, who promptly dismantled the team with idiotic decisions......bringing in Jason Jennings and Woody Williams, etc. Then, somebody traded Ben Zobrist to Tampa Bay....another smart move!! The Rays got an all-star and we got a Jap who can't speak English and stays on the DL to play second base. Now, he sucks so bad that he has been replaced by a utility man who the Reds released and we are stuck paying Matsui's contract. Great move by Ed Wade and Draytie. Our farm system has become the laughing stock of baseball because we draft players and Draytie is too cheap to sign them. We gave away our prospects in trades for has-beens. Insread of having good, young players ready to bring up, we went out and signed a bunch of has-beens who were looking for a place to play. As long as Draytie owns this team, it will continue to suck because he had rather try to patch holes than to build a solid team. That's what buying players at Goodwill gets you.
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Post by sadoug on Apr 27, 2010 16:35:02 GMT -5
You wont get any argument from me about PURPURA...He sucked. However.....since Wade got here things have started looking up. We have signed our draft choices for the last several years, and our minor league system is slowly being rebuilt. Although Castro is struggling badly at Round Rock, some good things are showing up at the A and AA level. Unless he gets hurt, you will hear great things from our young Phenom pitcher at AA..Lyles.19 years old and so far, lighting up every level he plays. He is already way ahead of where we hoped he would be right now. To get him and Castro in the same draft is amazing.
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