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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Astro-holic Synonymous:  Ed Wade Killed My Mother…‘s Love of the Astros

Anyway, back to the subject of even MORE wasteful expenditures (yes it IS possible) Ed Wade obtained Miguel Tejada, a suspected steroids user, the DAY before the Mitchell Report was made public. Had he waited a day longer, he most likely could have obtained him for significantly less than 3 cheap major leaguers and 2 minor leaguers. Two days after Fast Eddie threw money at Lyons (and no, I don’t believe that some other team offered him 2 years at 3.5 mill/year), the list of non-tenders was revealed.

Let’s take a look at that there list and see if Eddie could have gotten someone just as good and a WHOLE lot cheaper:

BBC’s blog has officially found its new home!  Make sure to check it out.

Dan Szymborski Posted: December 15, 2009 at 01:58 PM | 17 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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   1. Mattbert Posted: December 15, 2009 at 02:10 PM (#3413111)
Nice! Didn't think you'd actually use that title for your entry, BBC. Congrats on the new space. The uni stripes background in the header is schweet.
   2. bbc is prejudice bout men Posted: December 15, 2009 at 02:40 PM (#3413145)
thanks matt!!!!

and i think i'll keep lance berkman in my favorite uni at the top for a while.
   3. Repoz Posted: December 15, 2009 at 02:54 PM (#3413160)
Best of luck, Lisa (clicks faves)
   4. Baseball-Birthdays.com Posted: December 15, 2009 at 03:10 PM (#3413184)
Congrats!

( I like the brick red )
   5. The Non-Catching Molina (sjs1959) Posted: December 15, 2009 at 03:18 PM (#3413197)
Congratulations, Lisa, I just added you to my RSS reader feed!
   6. Gern Blanston Posted: December 15, 2009 at 04:09 PM (#3413298)
My eyes!!! I'd forgotten just how awful those unis were.

Congrats on the new blog. Looks great.
   7. Steve Treder Posted: December 15, 2009 at 04:59 PM (#3413406)
If you want to understand human beings, you need to know baseball.


Li-SA! Li-SA! Li-SA!
   8. phredbird Posted: December 15, 2009 at 05:51 PM (#3413545)
I can quit being an Astros fan ANY ol time I want to. Yep, just walk away.


heh. i love bbc.
   9. Mattbert Posted: December 15, 2009 at 06:36 PM (#3413607)
thanks matt!!!!

Happy to help. If you have the time, you should mine your mother for stories about her fan experience (both good and bad) and, if it makes sense, use them to illustrate why she'll not be renewing her season tix for 2010. Jumping off points for discussing what's wrong with the team and how to fix it. I bet it could be quite effective. I have a hunch that other Astros fans are just as fed up as you and your mother and would chime in with their own stories, too.
   10. bbc is prejudice bout men Posted: December 15, 2009 at 07:00 PM (#3413651)
repoz

thank you darling boy!!!!!

and it was you who found me a blog home in the first place

Husband thanks you too (except when i am too busy blogging to Do Other Stuff)
   11. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot Posted: December 15, 2009 at 07:11 PM (#3413675)
Terrific looking site, Lisa. Too bad you're wasting all that talent on a team like the Astros. (smiles and ducks)
   12. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: December 15, 2009 at 07:23 PM (#3413702)
repoz

thank you darling boy!!!!!


candlesticks always make a nice gift...or maybe we can find out where you 2 are registered
   13. bbc is prejudice bout men Posted: December 15, 2009 at 08:32 PM (#3413853)
matt

right about now is not the best time to say the word "astros" or "drayton" or "edwade" near my mama

and anyhow, i can't print the words she's saying and when you take out all the words that aren't, uh, g-rated, well, ain't much left.

ima let her finish, but after the fury gets burnt out enuf, she won't wanna discuss it. for a while.

- grinning

as for jumping off points as to what's wrong with the team, check out feliz naviDUD (from last week) heck, check out the archives from last YEAR seeing as how there ain't no real change a tall. not in the players, not with the attitude of the Orgnaization.

BAH
   14. Repoz Posted: December 15, 2009 at 08:47 PM (#3413895)
candlesticks always make a nice gift...

The announcements read, no toys.
   15. bbc is prejudice bout men Posted: December 16, 2009 at 12:43 AM (#3414182)
repoz,

you are a bad BAD boy
   16. robinred Posted: December 16, 2009 at 12:48 AM (#3414192)
Astro-holic Synonymous: Ed Wade Killed My Mother…’s Love of the Astros


I figured this meant that Lisa's son was starting his own blog.

Also, we get pictures of Carroll, Brown, Calcaterra, Jazayerli, Lederer, and one of Rifkin that he himself linked to all in this same week, but not one of you?

I like your description of BTF as "testosterone-soaked."
   17. bbc is prejudice bout men Posted: December 16, 2009 at 02:04 AM (#3414262)
my SON(s) starting a blog? uh, no.

you don't need an actual pic of me. just think of halle berry. only 12 years younger. youse guys like fantasy anyhow.

i was gonna say testosterone DRENCHED, but that didn't soak in

hahahahahaha
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