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I don’t often pretend to know something about the Astros. Well, I do, but I still act like I don’t. But even I notice that there’s a little problem going on right now. The Astros beat the Nats 5-0 yesterday to finish at .500 going into the All-Star Break.
Herein lies the problem. The Astros don’t need a good season this year. They need to be awful. They need to finish 10 games out of first place, behind the fucking Pirates. And they need to play awful doing it.
The Astros are pretty old. Berman, Oswalt, Tejada, Lee, Blum. They’re on the down-slope of their careers. And keeping them around for too much longer is only going to hurt the Astros long-term. The young players need playing time. The Farm system needs new prospects to start developing. And they’re not going to get there by continuing to keep a bunch of old guys on the team to try and scrape into the playoffs, only to get hammered in the first round.
Drayton wants to win. But he wants to win now. He doesn’t want to sit back and develop talent, and he doesn’t want a season or two of taking it up the poop chute while new guys work on their games. Because doing that doesn’t put asses in seats and beers down throats. But that’s what it’s going to take. It’s going to take trading some of these players to another sucker team for some fresh young players or prospects. A piss-poor finish to the season would convince D-Mac to make some wholesale changes. Hopefully.
But it needs to happen sooner rather than later. This season. Right after they come back from the All-Star break. The longer he waits, and the longer he clings on to the belief that the Astros are a winner, the longer it will take to dig out of the hole.
- Wanks MacGruber
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This is the same argument of the Philadelphia Eagles fans last season… over-achievement means you don’t have to change even though there’s cancer throughout the organization.
Then again, I wouldn’t call being a .500 baseball team in the NL Central “overachieving.”
We’re right in it. This is our year. We’re a second half club anyway.
Amen! Amen, I say! The Astros-ah need-ah to lose-ah like no team has-ah EVER lost! Otherwise like the serpent-ah in the Garden of Eden-ah the chance-ah to stay in the division race-ah will tempt-ah Uncle Drayton-ah to add a foolish complimentary piece-ah rather than-ah start-ah a fire sale!!!! Amen! Amen! Please turn to page 454 in your hymnal.