[Official] Astros @ Pirates

Fock, Fock, Fock!!!

We're just in a huge funk...Luckingly so are the majority of teams...

Win tonight to avoid the sweep...

 

and then get it going vs. the Brewers this weekend. come home..sleep in your own bed. kiss your wife. hit the damn ball.

 

Again??

 

baller -- how'd you end up being a Rocket fan?

 

Kind of lame but thank NBA Jam on Super Nintendo. I was in like 4th/5th grade and always played as Houston so I just started following them then the next year they won their first title. I was sold for life.

It's funny also that the two kids I played against the most in that game were Jazz and Sonics fans -- it's only natural that I would be battling them.

 

works for me.

 

I couldn't get to sleep last night after watching this nightmare of an extra-inning game. The Astros had so many chances and blew them all. It was ridiculous how many hits they had. Yet, they couldn't push across a single run to win it after having the bases loaded a few times in extra innings.

They deserved to lose this one. I'm pissed off at this team right now. The Pirates freaking own us.

 

He was swinging, just not doing much. First AB with the bases loaded he just rolled over a breaking ball & tapped it to 3rd. Same with the AB with Lee on 2nd, didn't even try to go to RF. Looked like he was dead pull on everything.

The 2 balls he hit on the screws he hit right at them. Them's the breaks.

Anyone catch Burke's awesome throw home from CF? Counted about 3 fundamental mistakes on that play.

 

Burke is terrible. I don't understand why he is even in the line-up. He should be in AAA working on his game. That guy stinks in more ways than one.

 

The Astros offense has been awful.

 

How do you feel about thug life coaching your boys next fall?

 

Last year, it was going 5-10 vs. Cincy, a team they had just owned since 2000, that cost the Stros the Central....

 

Burke leads off with a double. Let's see if the Ashos can get him home with zero outs.

 

Lance Berkman's OPS is barely higher than Burke's; should Lance be in AAA too?

 

he has a track record of being a great player, Burke is a overrated player playing out of position. Well at best he is unproven.

 

It's really amazing how many major league baseball players have batting stances that should have been corrected in little league...

 

Thats what I been thinking and saying lately, but he's even more overrated in this forum by some guys around here.

 

Good god Tony Armas Jr throws pus.

If they can't get some runs of this guy....

 

How is he overrated? Please explain, and show evidence of someone rating him highly.

 

Again, who and how? Examples, please. Burke's a solid player with good speed who's likely to post an OPS in the mid .700s given a full season. Nothing more, nothing less. He's not a star, but he's very useful, and I think too many of you guys think every player who isn't a superstar sucks.