This is futile.

I haven't watched an Astros game in a while, work schedule was thrown off these last 2 weeks... It sucks. It's not like I'm missing anything though.

Anyways. This is a lame attempt to try and defend some music opinions I have, because I'm tired of people telling me how crappy my music is.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Give me a better argument than "Down South Hillbilly Wanna Be Country Shit Music." Yes, you don't like listening to them, give me specific examples and I will awesomely say "Hey I respect that opinion." If you are trying to convince me that I'm a retard for listening to them, and you say "Because they are crappy southern rock hillbillys" please leave my sight, for you have failed horribly at debating your cause.

Metal/Core - Anything that is mostly detuned guitars, blazing riffs, and some dude screaming his ass off. This one is hard to try to defend. I understand how people can't handle the screaming. It's ok, I'm not trying to convince you to like it. But occasionally I'll run into a guy who wants to argue that it's "Not Metal." Who knows what the fuck is "metal" now? I'm glad I've met the end-all-be-all of metal labeling. Give me your number so I may call you everytime I have to ask what metal is.

Guns N Roses - November Rain - You will never convince me that this song sucks. Stop trying. I don't care how much of a douche Axl is. If I'm at your house or something, change the song. If you're at my place and it's on, shut the fuck up or walk away.

Also honorable mentions are Mid Nineties Metallica, Old Korn, and Tool. Metallica changed their pace, it's not worth breaking shit over. Change happens. Get over it. The older Korn stuff I can still play. I don't like the last 10 years or so, but to each his own. And tool... I love tool. You can always tell the guy talking about how Tool sucks has never really listened to them. One of his buddies told him that tool sucks and hes just replaying the same message in his head to sound cool.

NOW! Flame me for my disgusting musical opinions. I'm sorry I like popular stuff!!! Elitists, tear me down!!!

Winning streak!

Take some notes Astros.

Possible reasons for the Astros to be off in the middle of a series.

-They needed a day to rest their legs from running all those bases.

-They booked Hunter Pence in a hotel with a glass sliding door.

-Kaz's needed a day to walk around and say "You have no marbles!"

-They're watching Major League 1 & 2. See above reason.

-Lance and Roy needed they day to figure out if they are going to drop their no trade clause by July.

-The starting rotation needed to go bury their money somewhere (ya know, becuase they won't ever pitch again soon... thats a stretch I know)

They really need the whole day today to reflect on their performance of the past week? Seriously, thats not good. They need to be hitting balls right now to break out of this stuff.

To put -SOMETHING-ANYTHING- positive in a post, I'll say this: Hunter is looking a little more mature at the plate it seems. That or it only seems that way because he's the only one hitting anything. I've actually seem him take a pitch or 2 in the little time I've watched.

Zero's.

Hey, even in binary you need 1's.

Playing with ridiculously early numbers.

Batting
Runs - 16 - 29th in MLB
Hits - 50 - T-22 in MLB
Doubles - 5 - 30th in MLB
Team Average - .250 - 18th in MLB

Pitching
8 HRs given - Right in the middle of the pack
41 Strikeouts - Right in the middle of the pack
24 Walks - 16/low 33/high
Opponent On Base - .382 (!) - 28th
ERA - 6.23 - T-27th

We knew the pitching was going to be bad. There was only a little glimmer of hope inside of me that wanted the pitching to be better than we expected. Whats with the batting? Kyle Lohse retiring 24 straight? Watching these guys... there's not enough beer it seems.

It's getting very old bashing on these guys, yet there is nothing I can say good about this team. Albert Pujols continues his reign of King Everything Against Houston. 6 games is like 3% of the season, but it's sure easy to get discouraged about a 1-5 start. Roy gets hammered, our batting is crappy on epic levels, our farm system was unanimously ranked 30 of 30 in the MLB. Were we insane to listen to Cecil and everyone agree with him about the 90 game thing?

I hope they run like the next 10 straight to get our hopes up again.

Which one?

OR




We'll find out tonight.

Yea!

I have to admit, Jeff Keppinger is not a name I've ever heard before. I didn't get a chance to see the game last night either, so I'm a pretty bad fan. Keppinger obviously knows what to do to be on the Astros squad: Hit in the clutch. He must have heard about Chris Burke, or maybe even Orlando Palmeiro. Those guys didn't even need to hit .250, or develop into any kind of fielder.

In all seriousness, these are the kind of games we need to pull out. There were more than enough of these type of games last season to put us into the playoffs had we won them. Alas, we cannot bring players in scoring position home, and last season is history.

Here here for optimism!

Silver Boot

Me want Astros win!

This is supposed to be a hate-on-Dallas-type-thing, so I'll say fuck Dallas.

Actually the Rangers are winning the boot series 5-3, yet the Astros are winning the series 25-23. Split the series and it goes to runs scored, and the Rangers score runs. As I type this they are leading the Indians 7 to 1 on opening day.

Did you see the New York Times predictions for the American League?
Prediciting the Royals to win the central, well theres your "out of the blue" pick. Picking the Cubs and Yankees in the world series? Hey now don't get too crazy with those picks.

I think Mike Hampton sprained his eye lash driving to the stadium.

I heard the Astros invited Shane Reynolds (and others) to the opening day festivities. I think he could make the rotation.

Tonight:
Roy v Carlos!
Hunter Pence no blinking stare acid trippy thing!
Michael Bo...errr Lance Berkman! yeah there we go.
And probably alot of blue in the fucking stands, because Cub fans blow donkey balls.

Thanks Pittsburgh.

-This is where I talk about how times are tough and the Astros are suppose to take our mind off of real life and they are looking bleak, blah blah blah-

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAH.
FUCK ALL THAT THOUGH, THE PIRATES LOST TO A JUCO SCHOOL.

Whew.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Pittsburgh. Look, the computers have you guys finishing ahead of us in the division. I know that one game where you play your scrubs and you lose to a JuCo school is no indication of a teams' play... but atleast you get our minds off our horrible starting pitching, and we can make fun of a division rival.

As a guy on the radio said: "Look, you lost to a team named after an aquatic cow."

Pittsburgh will probably take the season series... again.