Save our franchise!! Retraction please!!

Looks like Dobrow was as wrong as everyone on this page knew he would be. Our team is competing and hasn't tanked as predicted. There is still ample talent in the minors. While we can't boast of Arizona's rotation, when we pound out a lead through 7, our bullpen has been carrying us to the finish line quite reliably as of late. My feeling is we'll be in the thick for the better part of the season. Our hitting is very good and will get better, Pence, Bourne & Towles will all be raising thier numbers, Valverde will close 90% or better the rest of the way in, Roy is coming around, striking out 9 last night.

Maybe he was right, we'd probably be better off swapping arms and bats with the Brewers, pretty soon they'll be enforcing the mercy rule on the teams that are battering them around. I'm still not sure why Wade hasn't traded Oswalt yet, doesn't he read Dobrow? I'm just not feeling the need to run out and get my paper bag mask ready, I'll just have to suffer through what looks to be a fun season, sorry Larry.

tydreamer, I see your point, but being a misplaced Texan in Nashville, home of the Sounds (Brewers AAA affiliate), I don't see where a first place AAA team always equates into a wins for the big league club, it's the system where they develop thier young players and send players coming off the DL to get back into game shape. The Sounds have been in the championship series two years in a row and the Brewers are in a spin and they're pitching is abysmal. the Sounds have no answers for the Brewers.

The Astros have brought up and traded many players for decent value, none of the former players are lighting it up, but being the Astros picked up Valverde, Tejada & Bourne for players not panning out and prospects. If that respect, the farm system is amazingly successful. The Brewers would kill for it, so would many teams on the edge of contention, even if it means giving up the AA championship.

I don't know what how far this Astros team will go, but if you're ever wandering around Nashville and you see a chubby middle aged man in a Biggio Astros jersey, that would be me, standing by them where it cooler to be a Sox fan.

GO STROS!! CHARGE!!