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Backe’s return

Posted by pravata On May - 25 - 2009

Footer reports Following Sunday’s game, manager Cecil Cooper said Backe will “pitch somewhere on this road trip, but I don’t know exactly when or where.”…

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Managers sometimes fill out the card wrong, but Footer spots the real problem
Once Cooper’s mistake was revealed, he did not move from his seat in the dugout, even as the umpires explained the situation to Cooper and to Bourn.

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Ticky Tacky

Posted by pravata On May - 20 - 2009

Back on the Bus

Posted by pravata On May - 19 - 2009

Footer blogs that the Astros decide that Backe needs another minor league start, on Saturday.  That’ll be it though.  The rules say they can’t have him on “rehab” past Tuesday.  Footer’s Blog

“Will-there-be-Meetings? Of-course! No-Meetings!

Posted by pravata On May - 19 - 2009

Remember when Cooper said this? (5/15)
“Probably two (more), I would think,” Cooper said when asked if Backe would make one more start. Link

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“Why tinker with it?”

Posted by pravata On May - 16 - 2009

Bourn hitting leadoff? “I’m not going to do it,” Cooper said.

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