You can always tell when the Yankees aren’t playing the Red Sox, because that’s when they have time to dig through Dominican birth certificates and wave them around in front of Miguel Tejada’s face.
Tejada, perhaps drawing on experience from the Mitchell report, wisely used the the international signal for “not guilty” by getting up without a word and walking out on the interview. Nice to know he can be so classy at his age.
We’re back from our spring break trip to the city of Houston. Can you believe it’s only been more than two weeks since our last podcast? This season already has the old familiar feeling.
This week on the podcast, we talk about how all the teams are doing so far. You definitely won’t want to miss our newest feature, the Inaccurate Reenactment, where Jonny does a horrible Dusty Baker impression, and I do an even worse Bronson Arroyo one. I like to think that we’re expressing an inner character rather than thinking that we’re just horrible voice actors.
For those Astros (6-9) fans who were teetering on the ledge because of their team’s poor start, last night’s game should offer some solace. Roy Oswalt (1-3) didn’t suck!
RoyO was pretty good, actually, leading his team to a 2-1 win over the Phillies (7-8) and Kyle Kendrick (1-2).
Interestingly, it wasn’t the waste of roster space struggling Jose Valverde brought on to get the save. I think he has his nose in the corner after royally blowing a save earlier this week. No, it was Doug Brocail (S 1). It’ll be interesting to see how long Valverde’s after-school suspension lasts.
The two teams finish their series today with Brandon Backe going against Brett Myers.
The Astros (5-8) won their first series of the infant season, beating the Marlins (7-5) for the second time in a row.
Wandy Rodriguez (1-0) did his best Roy Oswalt impression by going 7 innings, striking out 1 per inning and allowing the Marlins’ only run. Burke Badenhop (0-1), who’s obviously playing the wrong position with a fantastic last name like that, got the loss in his first start.
The Astros take a day off before taking on the Phillies on tax day at Citizens Day Park. (I wonder if they have an IRS related promotion. Free extension filing, or something.) Shawn Chacon pitches for the ‘Stros, while the Phillies pitcher of choice is Adam Eaton. Gametime is 6:05pm CDT Tuesday.
Wednesday was the second game the Red Hot Family attended at Minute Maid park. And with an area doctor visited and ear-infection antibiotics happily procured, the rough part of the trip was already behind us. Alas, the rough part of the series was not over for the Astros. The home run pump didn’t increment a single number the whole time we were in attendance.
Hunter Pence. You look at this picture and you just can’t help but notice his…socks.
Weird how his…socks…aren’t as noticeable in this photo. They probably help with his strike zone, though.
Albert Pujols was a monster this game, hitting two solo home runs and single-handedly providing the margin of the Cardinals’ win. Yeah, the Astros fans really don’t like Pujols.
Here at Red Hot Mama, we make our fair share of fun of Tony LaRussa’s sunglasses. But this vantage has shown us the error of our ways: we ought to be making fun of his tight pants.
The Astros grounds crew was sponsored by a local car wash. I bet they got a sweet cut of that action.
Awwww…someone got all engaged at the game. But neither that nor Tejada’s double would be inspiration enough for the Astronomicals to put a line in the W column on this evening.
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