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Wilson - shit signing Blanton - shit signing Isringhausen - shit signing Hawkins - shit signing Vargas, Hanson and Madson - we'll see, but the track record isn't exactly stellar

I'm really not sure I want Dipoto selecting the future of this franchise by making giant payouts then signing new coaches to long deals. I mean, he hasn't got much right lately (or, well, at all).

Oh come on, if Trumbo wasn't the least capable defensive 1B of all time and if either of Lowe or De La Rosa weren't as useful as a BP machine, there'd be no problem.

DFA that useless **** right now. While he's out on the mound, hand him an Arkansas uni.

Remember when we didn't have losers like Mark Lowe in the bullpen?

Trumbo sucks at all aspects of baseball right now (although I guess Hamilton does too).

Remember when Mark Trumbo was a slightly useful baseball player? People talk about trading him, but what the eff are we going to get for somebody who can't play any position, strikes out all the time and never walks?

$15mil for this shit is awful, truly awful. Nice one, Jerry.

If you liked seeing Abreu and Wells play the OF, then you'll LOVE Brad Hawpe.

Huh? I could have described a 90-year-old disabled black man with no teeth and it would have sounded more like Romine than the player I was talking about. Calling Aybar a terrible 'situational' hitter is stupid and, Lord, intangibles? Aybar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> steaming pile of shit >>> Romine >> Harris

Bingo.

It's especially worrying when our backup is somebody with a 0.0 WAR after 489 MLB games, lost all ability to hit between 2009 and 2012 (and probably only regained it last year from playing at altitude) and sucks defensively.

A large amount of the ushers at Angel Stadium suck and have done for a long time. The customer service at most other places (team store etc.) is worse. In fact, one of my few positive experiences with staff at the stadium was when I got heat stroke and took myself to first aid (the usher was too f'n useless to be of any help), the people there were great. Given how much we crap on about being fan friendly and the like, we really need to fix how staff at the stadium interact with the fans.

The way people are viewing Houston, you'd think they're going to go 10-152. Yeah, they really suck, but at an absolute minimum they're still going to win 40 games and those wins have to come from somewhere. We need to stop assuming we're just going to walk over them.

We'd scored 30 runs at this point last year, we have 29 now. May we please have the next cornerstone of your lame argument?

Career stats - Hamilton hitting third: .291/.341/.533 Hamilton hitting fourth: .294/.382/.508 It's crazy to think that's the problem. The only issue is he sucks right now. We really don't need to limit the amount of runners we get on in front of one of our few hitters to look somewhat capable so far (Pujols).

Has to be Callaspo. Bourjos can be a really good hitter for us but he's not a leadoff hitter.

That was pretty funny.

This counts as having started playing? You can't be ahead of schedule until, you know, something actually happens.

How do you polish a turd? There's only so many ways you can manage a bunch of talentless hacks.

I was somewhat uneasy about both, now I regret CJ like crazy. It's far too early to have changed stance on Hamilton, however.

Alarming to think a team with a #3 hitter who would be our backup utility IF just batted around on us.

I'm always scared about signing a player his previous team didn't want to keep. Clearly, we should have taken more notice of that alarmbell.

We've got $65mil more devoted to these spineless twat, regardless of whether the offense bails us out in this game. So I don't really give a toss about it being the first inning.

You'd think someone who wanked on about "straightedge" would, ya know, have an interest in throwing pitches in the strike zone.