poppysox

Abreu has been adding to his trade value as he continues hitting homers & rbi's. Interesting if offers tempt the FO. I'm actually on the fence on this. Good time for him to get hot... both for negotiating an extension with us or upping his value for trade.

For me it is the only way to pitch. Nova is painful to watch. Hard to keep the defense awake.

I said this several weeks ago. Last night Steve was talking about how fast he works. Said you would think other guys would learn from watching Verlander work fast.

I agree with you but didn't feel like getting jumped on by half the board. We lost the 2 games I expected to lose because our pitching situation looked kind of bleak.

Amen!

I thought the bullpen game on Monday showed our bullpen has potential. Three single run innings allowed Not at all a bad effort.

Houston hasn't knocked us out of the park. Pitching and defense wins games. Just really been out pitched.

When the going gets tough the tough get going. Now is the time.

Jerry is 83 year old and not a passive owner. I think Jerry will let it all hang out very soon.

Poster was trying to say only 30 or 40% of the nine million is what will be cut. The first 5 or 6 million is already shot at time of release.

I agree. Time so see what we have in the two guys you mention and also find out if McCann is extension worthy. Castillo does nothing for this team now or future.

No!

Just ok with Steve and Jason and agree they are better this year. I sometime listen to the visitors broadcast and believe me there are worse broadcast teams than ours. Be content with what we have. Not easy to make a bad game seem interesting.

Settle on Robert & Madrigal being part of the championship teams with Jimenez being DH/1st base or LF against NL. Put our resources into pitching, extensions for our young core and McCann. Pitching & defense wins championships.

Edgy might be a good trait for a manager (Joe Girardi) or perhaps nurturing (Ricky). We can all see the difference. Sometime one method or the other seems to be the way to go. Current team seems to be full of nice guys being managed by a nice guy. Maybe that's great or maybe we need more edge. It's probably good when no one excepts being bad.

Player who have an edge to them often play for winners. Ty Cobb, Billy Martin, Early Wynn and AJ all had that edgy personality and I wonder if it didn't contribute to keeping their teammates heads in the game. I know that I'm guilty of liking my "nice" players and was recently thinking how likeable most of our players are. We always see TV shots of players fooling around happily in the dugout or playing mouse ears when on base. Maybe we need a couple of edgy players to keep us focused.

Let's face it...we robbed them.

Perhaps you haven't noticed that Houston loses very few games at home.

We lost the two games (bullpen game & Verlander) we all probably expected to lose. Now we have 2 games with realistic chance. If we grab 1 game in Houston it is a moral victory.

We have nice things...just need to use them in a better way.

I remember a video of Eaton reaching over a barrier (SoxFest or spring training) and lifting up and interacting with a kid with some handicap. The kid and his parents were excited and happy. It showed a side of Eaton that was very human and nice. It certainly influenced my opinion of him. I think his trade was a good one for us and we were overpaid. However, I don't buy into his being a 100% jerk.

We're at the stage of rebuild where AAAA people who are major league ready but blocked are of more interest to me. Need to start deciding who the 25 guys are that take us to the promise land.

Robert-Tilson-Best Outfielder you can get in trade for Colome may well be the FO plan. Would probably be the smart thing to do with only one + years of control. Jimenez moves to DH dabbles at 1st base & outfield.

The growing pains of a rebuild. Soon (maybe two years) we will start looking like Houston.

Those are the guys I'm talking about. You will need money for fair offers if you want to extend.