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Post by iowafan on Jul 28, 2010 22:13:29 GMT -5
I would like to see us do well in this series. I don't think we have played too well against the Brewers this year. Right now we have Oswalt, Rodriguez, and Wright penciled in to start. That doesn't sound too good to me. Oswalt has been shaky, Rodriguez has been good, Wright is Wright. Sounds like trouble to me.
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Post by changeup on Jul 28, 2010 22:53:18 GMT -5
Oswalt wants out and has stunk up the place recently.
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Post by iowafan on Jul 29, 2010 14:38:45 GMT -5
Oswalt is supposed to pitch tomorrow. I wonder how this is going to come down. If they really have a deal going with the Phillies he won't pitch. Maybe Happ will pitch for us.
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Post by cangrejero on Jul 29, 2010 18:45:51 GMT -5
oswalt is gone, chandler must be hard to console, but i am happy he is gone, i love the trade for the astros.
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Post by iowafan on Jul 29, 2010 19:34:49 GMT -5
We got this Brett Wallace from the Toronto Bluejays instead of that speedy guy from Philly. That makes more sense considering we seem to have fairly good prospects in his position. This might be alright. Happ is an interesting prospect.
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Post by cangrejero on Jul 29, 2010 20:27:42 GMT -5
plus villar, a good young SS
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Post by changeup on Jul 30, 2010 10:23:14 GMT -5
Now that we have Wallace, get rid of Berkman,,,,,,,,,,PLEASE. This bum doesn't care and I'm sick of listening to Astros broadcasters making excuses for him by talking about his knee. Berkman and Lee drawing about 33.5 million between them are killing this team. Neither is hitting over .240 and they kill us by leaving runners on base. They have to be the most over-paid, under-producing players that any team has in the middle of their lineup.
Trading Oswalt was the right thing to do for both Roy and the Astros. Happ can be a quality pitcher. Now, we need to keep Bourn, Pence, Johnson, Castro, etc. and rebuild. Get rid of dead weight like Berkman, Lee, Quintero, Feliz, Sampson, Moehler, etc.
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Post by iowafan on Jul 30, 2010 21:46:58 GMT -5
How about that game? And Oswalt got blown out. Philadelphia must be feeling pretty dumb right now. Sure Oswalt might get his stuff together again. But that doesn't change the way that Happ pitched. Anyway I think Philadelphia may be in trouble. I really never expected to get anything good for Oswalt. I read one stupid article which was saying that Houston got taken. I bet they pull that stupid article of the internet. What a moron!
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Post by cangrejero on Jul 30, 2010 22:47:02 GMT -5
i like the 3 players we got for oswalt. Guys, for 2 or 3 years i was telling guys that Oswalt was not pitching like a number 1 pitcher, of course, chandler did not like it and started to trash me, but Oswalt was not pitching great, period.
This year he started great, but look at how he is doing lately. I believe Astros did great with trade.
Now, on Berkman, Melacon is suppose to be a very good reliver, but, i think we should have gotten more for Berkman.
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Post by iowafan on Jul 30, 2010 23:26:39 GMT -5
I am not sure about this one either. I liked Berkman more than most people. He has never been healthy this year and may come back. But anyway it is done, I think better yet would have been getting rid of Carlos Lee. Probably harder to do but it should be done as soon as possible. I wish we would have kept Berkman and dumped Carlos Lee. We just have too little power getting rid of both of those guys.
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Post by changeup on Jul 31, 2010 17:27:13 GMT -5
I agree with Vega on us not getting enough for Berkman but at least we got something for him. Don't be surprised if he comes back to Houston later. Oswalt will rebound and help the Phillies. He doesn't have to be a number one guy up there........they have Halladay for that job. I liked what I saw from Happ.
Finally, we are getting younger and rebuilding. Now, if we can just unload our fat players.......Lee and Quintero. How Quintero has stayed on this team surprises me. Thank goodness for Castro because J. R. Towles won't amount to anything.
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Post by iowafan on Jul 31, 2010 20:58:52 GMT -5
Another great start by Rodriguez, if he was playing even close to this good he would have been on the all-star team. Johnson has been hitting the cover off the ball. Makes you wonder why we couldn't have given him a full season and maybe he could have been rookie of the year. He will probably tank it any way. I can see why they traded Berkman now, if this Wallace doesn't work out right away they can put in Drayton's pet Feliz at first base. He can step right into Berkman's big shoes and hit us lots of homeruns. Lee was too tired to play today.
Tomorrow our friend Wright is pitching so we are going to need all the hitting we can get. They wanted Lee good and rested and well fed. We need our big guns like Feliz in the lineup. Wright is going to see some runs scored on him I predict.
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Post by changeup on Jul 31, 2010 22:32:54 GMT -5
They need to ship Lee to Taco Bell and leave his fat ass there.
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Post by cangrejero on Aug 1, 2010 8:01:48 GMT -5
at least mills is sitting him a lot playing other guys like Michaels and bourgoin.
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Post by iowafan on Aug 1, 2010 15:21:53 GMT -5
Michaels just belted a grand slam homerun too. He has had a good year this year. We are getting some good play from some people you wouldn't expect it like him and Keppinger. Feliz even hit a double.
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