Houston Astros: Best Team in the Game

[The Express]

after dropping three games in a row to detroit, detroit, and san fran my confidence in astros has definitely been shaken. i will get back to you after "playoff night" this saturday.

[Polish Rifle]

After losing 5 out of last 6 to San Fran what do you think of Houston?

[Attezz]

Last Sunday I took the family to the Polish Air and Space museum...


















It was an empty warehouse.

[TbT]

nyuk nyuk nyuk......

[Burnzky]

the only thing houston is good for is demoralizing your opponent if you can actually pull of an upset with them. 

[The Express]

oh... i thought i posted here already about how bad houston is... guess i didn't hit submit? i'm on dial-up at work...

anyways... mscott isn't as elite as i thought he was and good defense generally marginalizes speed. i will admit that i did not know about the "secret" to stopping stolen bases nor did i know about tapping the direction and a at the same time to throw faster. 

in conclusion, i was only a grookie when i thought i was a pro. humble pie has been eaten. foot is in mouth.

season 2 i get detroit... though i'm trying to trade with brandon for st. lou if he's interested

[JoeDirt]

I'm really happy to hear the excitement and passion from this new contingency, but I acknowledge that there have been several indicators that the group is at the beginning stages fully understanding/learning/mastering RBI...

[Polish Rifle]

Although, I now rank Houston last in the team rankings I still believe that they aren't that bad.  But due to all the complaining from last years Houston (Express), and the feedback from the boards, we're going to do a 9 team league for Season 2 and bring in Na and Am. 


Does anybody think that Am/Na are unfair teams to play with in a league setting like ours?

[TbT]

For the most part people will agree that Boston and in some ways Detroit match-up well with NL.  perhaps NL would be a good team for a newbie or someone whos just not very good to help em out.

AL is clearly not an elite team(NL/Bos)...very good team though.

We had a 5 man all day tourney a year ago and I had Houston and faced a couple guys with very comparable skills  With Houston(1 starting pitcher series) I lost a best of 3 series to SF, 2 games to 0.  scores were something like 1-0 and 3-2.  had the arms to compete but not he bats.

In the loser bracket Houston faced Detroit in a single elimination game.  2 starting pitcher game that i won in extras 2-1(i think).     Then i manned NY vs Houston and swept 2 games of 1starting pitcher.  Scores werent blow outs but they werent 1 run games either.  IIRC i won fairly comfortably by maybe 3 runs each contest.

Houston finished 1-4 that day.

I think most here will agree the pitching will keep you in most games, but the bats will prevent you from wining most games.

[broiler]

i think houston in better than new york