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Just seems if they had all this available money, they should've gone out and built a bullpen that won't crap away a seven-run lead in the span of two innings. They didn't really have "all this available money". Owner Drayton McClane exceeded the payroll for a special case, that case being Clemens. It's a total rent-a-player move. However, I think that it's evident that we need to do something with our bullpen. And besides, before the season I doubt they thought the bullpen would be this shoddy. It's basically the same pen we had last season that was so good. Who could've predicted the downfall of Qualls, Wheeler, and Lidge...well, Lidge not so much, but I am surprised that Qualls and Wheeler are going through such streakiness.

Good Lord. This game felt like in the first Mortal Kombat where you have to beat that dude with like...fifteen arms and then after he kicked your ass and you barely eeked out a victory over him you still had to fight like another guy and then Shang Tsung, but a win is a win...even if this was the most emasculating Astros win I've seen in a very, very long time. I hear Leo Mazzonne likes fixing broken pitchers. Maybe that Lidge, Everett, Lane for Tejada trade could still go down...but probably not. I've been drinking Vault Soda and smoking Marlboro Reds for several hours. If I to into a sugar coma or get lung cancer, I'm suing the Houston Astros.

Hey...since when is Steve Bartman a Sox fan? God, I hope we can hold the lead. Iguchi isn't up this inning, so...please, Baseball Gods...

Yeah, I really like watching Clemens pitch. Any time you can add a Hall-of-Fame pitcher to your rotation, it's a good thing...Wait...were you being sarcastic?

If he does, I'll almost feel as bad as Cubs' fans do.

Nah, they had Hawk Harrelson in the booth relaying signs to em, though. Of that much, I'm sure.

The third grand slam this weekend. Podsednik, Crede, Iguchi... I feel like vomiting...or giving Brad Lidge the worse hoosesoaking of his life.

This is why you don't put your closer in in a non-save situation on the road. Has Jeff Brantley not stressed this enough?

I think I'm gonna cry. Screw the left-handed power bat. We need bullpen help!

Oh, I totally agree that another bat would help the team, but I was just complaining how the announcers were completely discounting anything good the Astros were doing tonite and attributing it to the White Sox playing poorly. For example, when Lamb and Berkman hit homeruns, it wasn't because they put good swings on the ball, but because "Javier Vasquez didn't throw that pitch where he wanted to.", but when Konerko hit a homerun it's because "Paul Konerko is a great hitter. He put a great swing on that ball. He's awwwwwweeeesome. " The thing about getting a bat is, if the Astros do get one, they have nowhere to put him. Preston's not going anywhere. Burke's got centerfield locked up, and he's hitting very well. Berkman ain't going anywhere, and the infield's set. Anything short of trading Everett, Lidge, and Lane for Tejada isn't going to do anything to put a power bat in our lineup.

I don't know if I'd call Substance front-loaded. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is the 10th of 17 songs, with all the 9 before it are classics. Admittedly, the songs after it aren't as good as the first 10, but there's some decent stuff there. "Glass" is good. "These Days" is good. "Novelty" is interesting enough.

I take back all of the bitching about the Astros not getting games on ESPN. Joe Morgan is quite possibly the worst T.V. commentator this side of Hawk Harrelson. It was great. Not two seconds after Joe goes on and on about how the Astros can't challenge for the division because we don't have a left-handed power bat, Mike Lamb and Lance Berkman both hit 2-run shots about 450 ft outta the park. Fuck you, Joe Morgan. Edit: And now with a 6 run lead, the announcers aren't talking about how well the Astros are playing but how the White Sox are having an off-night. Yeesh. Roy Oswalt's pitching like a man possessed.

I cry every damn time I watch that movie. Tom Hanks was brilliant in it. Every time Jenny leaves Forrest to go be a hippie, I cry like a little girl, and then when he's standing out at her grave talking about how he takes care of little Forrest...good Lord, that's sad. And when he sees Lieutenant Dan and says he's got "magic legs"...I weep, man alive, do I weep.

Who's scheduled to pitch against Clemens? Is it Verlander? If it is, Clemens shoulda made his return for the 21st of June instead of the 22nd.

I'm nothing if not prone to weeping. (In addition to some already mentioned, i.e.-"The Green Mile" and "Schindler's List" and "Cinderella Man"): -"Field of Dreams" -"Big Fish" -"Old Yeller" -"Brokeback Mountain" -"Rocky" (I did it for you, Adrian!!!) -"Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire" -"The Passion" -"The Muppet Movie"(And not when I was a kid, either. I mean like...when I watched it last week.) -"Philadelphia" -"Forrest Gump" -"Walk the Line" -"Neverland" -"Edward Scissorhands" -"Stand by Me" -"Be Here to Love Me-A Biography of Townes Van Zandt" ...Now I'm gonna look like a little bitch... -"Finding Nemo" -"Dumbo" -"Bambi" -"The Lion King" I could go on and on, but feeling sufficiently emasculated, I'll stop now.

Shit, the way our interleague games have been going this past week, I can't wait till a couple weeks from now when we play you guys.

I bet the Cards win one against the AL Central before the Astros do. Don't ya'll have the Royals next?

Of course he can. His tears also cure cancer and he can walk on water and the only reason you're still concious is because he doesn't feel like carrying you. He's like Jesus, Chuck Norris, and Jack Bauer rolled in to one. And that's a nice job by Wheeler getting the 456 hitters with a runner on to keep the game tied.

It's the whole DH thing. AL lineups, by the nature of the DH system, have stacked lineups, whereas the NL has lineups that devote more to strategic, timely hitting.

You said it, man. You said it.

He also did a good Tazmanian Devil. I remember my favorite bit ever on Full House was this really weird thing Joey said about your BUTT falling off. It was completely bizzarre and out of the blue and I found it hilarious.

As I recall, he was kicking heroin when he was "retired" during like...75-79 or so. The story that got out was the he was being a "house husband", baking bread and whatnot. I learned that when I was doing my 6th grade Social Studies report on John Lennon. I got an A. It was neat. I got to mention "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" in it.

I thought they were gonna move Kent to 1B, Nomar to left field, Izturis to 2B, have Furcal at short and Mueller at 3B. It's all those damn rookies that are playing so well that's ruining the plan.

Lennon wasn't much of a family man, what, with his "lost weekend" and not associating with his son for the entire 1960s. He was pretty politically concious, if a little overly idealistic. His murder certainly did alot for his reputation, but not as much as Kurt Cobain's suicide did for him.

Maybe I should put more emoticons into my posts so you would better get the jist of what I'm saying. Obviously, I'm waaaaaay too cerebral for you. Edit: I hope that my "wub" emoticon puts forth the intended humor of my previous statement.