After a rather lackluster couple of games with the (Fuck the) Cubs, the Astros continue their final death march road trip of the season against the Red Legs. Things have been a lot more bearable game watching-wise since the youth movement began in earnest, but seeing just how terrible this team has been all season is really staggering. The Astros are 37.5 games out of first in the Central. They have a -158 run differential, trailing only Minnesota (-1786) in that department. Yuck.
Archive for September, 2011
Maybe You Saw It. I Didn’t.
On September - 18 - 2011
Astros 3, FTC 2
W: Myers (6-13)
L: Dempster (10-13)
Fucking Fox. I guess football is too damn big so 11 of the last 25 games, and all of the weekend games except for the very last Sunday in September are broadcast on that pipsqueak tin can network in Houston only. The network that isn’t good enough for football is good enough for the crusty leftovers that are Your Houston Astros.
FLESH AND BLOOD
On September - 18 - 2011
CHICAGO Immature Ursines 2, HOUSTON Tragic Spacemen 1
September 17, 2011
Already-Been-Chewed Field
WP: Don’t Know
LP: Don’t Care
SV: We are beyond saving, fucker
CHICAGO (SnS) – The unmighty Houston Astros ended a long season-long struggle here tonight on the North Side of Chicago . . . Chicago, the City of Feminine Shoulders, the Fudgepacker to the World; the lowly Houston nine reached the vaunted century mark in the loss column, by dropping an untense 2-1 heartstarter to the Chicago Fuck TCs. Read the rest of this entry »
Astros at Cubs – Bear Turds in the Food Chain
On September - 16 - 2011
This is my last preview of the season, and I’m wrapping up my ninth year writing them. I always figured I would go at least 10 years, so I’d be a 10-year veteran and couldn’t be traded to the fucking American League without my approval. I guess I never figured the Astros themselves would be traded to the AL. Ain’t that a kick in the nuts.
#51
On September - 13 - 2011
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
On September - 11 - 2011
PHILADELPHIA Phillies (94-49) at HOUSTON Astros (49-97)
September 12-14, 2011
MMPUS
HOUSTON (SnS) – It is mid-September, and another baseball season is grinding to a finish. The Astros are winding down a particularly unsuccessful campaign. I am not especially dismayed by that, though of course 2011 has been trying at times. Read the rest of this entry »