Despite his Congressional transgressions, Miguel Tejada should be the Astro starting shortstop this season. Happy Valentine’s Day to all our readers. Today’s a good day to take a break from your sports viewing and take your wife/significant other out for dinner. Maybe you’ll even g...

Chris Sampson needed to throw 55 pitches to last 5 innings - he made exactly one bad pitch and Brian McCann hit it out. He didn’t walk anyone and he struck out 2. I guess he DID decide to pretend he was facing the Cubs. With Roy Oswalt still hurting to much to make his next start, hopefully, C...

Husband really wanted to spend the 4th of July in Galveston at my cousin’s. He absolutely LOVES the water - and his sons just like their daddy, too. And I realized we really hadn’t spend a weekend at the beach during the season since 03 or 04 - we used to go weekends when the Astros had ...

Well, Chacon sure as heck couldn’t blame the defense for his 7 run 2nd inning batting practice he threw. First batter was Glaus - he hung a fat one and Glaus put it in the window in left closest to the Hill. Bourn kinda looked up at it to wave byebye. Molina grounds out on a 3-1, then Kennedy ...

How can I put this nicely? This is reminding me of early 2005. I know there are plenty of fans out there who, for some reason, think that if you are a ML pitcher it means you should go out every single time and give up only a few hits, no homers and no runs AND throw a complete game of 150-200 pitch...

I had hoped to talk about Carlos’ 3 run homer. Or the double steal pulled off by Lance/Miggy (this is the 4th Astros double steal of the year) and Michael Bourn’s 23rd league leading steal. And the Astros scoring SIX runs off ace lefty Cole Hamels - a game that Chris Sampson deserved to ...

Chris Sampson pitched just great. He kept the ball down, except for one slider that he hung that Aramis sent into the middle window in left center. Chris even struck out 4 guys, including Soriano, TWICE. He cruised along effortlessly until he gave up a seeingeye single to DeRosa with 2 out in the 7t...

The Astros were down 6-0 after the third against the Giant’s ace Tim Lincecome. 4 of the 8 position players’ BA were just barely above or below the Mendoza line. Tejada sat out. And yet, the Astros had yet ANOTHER come from behind victory. The guys hit, the bullpen held and the Stros won...

The Chris Sampson (NOT Chad Simpson, as I heard some guy say on ESPN radio) of early 2007 showed up tonight. He struck out 3, walked one, gave up 2 fairly long fly balls, and wouldn’t have had a man advance beyond second (Kemp’s double) but Tejada misplayed an easy popup and let it drop,...

Well, this is a change - actually WINNING an extra inning game in which we were losing, but managed to tie up. I guess we’re used to the other way around, in which we’re winning, the bullpen blows it, we run through the bullpen and a zillion innings, then lose on a grounder juuuust past ...