Road/Home splits, H-town vs. Chi-town

Let's go 'Stros!

"The Cubs are same as usual, April and May glory, come September it will be wait till next year again."

Where do you come up with that?  Until this year, those have been two of their worst months because most of their sluggers don't start hitting until the weather warms up (Sosa, D Lee, Soriano, etc)

gfoxcook,  in response to your complaint about the Astros having had to play more games against the west than the Cubs.  Who are you kidding?  The west is weak this year, and the only legit team in that division (the Dimondbacks) the Cubs swept.  As for the coplaint about all the home games we have played, well, all you can do is play the scedule you were given. 

This should be a good series and probably fairly telling for the Astros as far as how good they are.

My question for you guys is can Berkman and Tejada keep up this crazy hitting display all year?

"they'll find out next week what it's like to play a real team with some lumber"

"I cant wait to see the Pinella's coronary after Pence, Berkman, Lee and Tejada go back to back to back to back on that overrated staff."

2 runs against the Cubs overrated staff. Tejada, Berkman and Lee did go back to back to back in the 8th. Back to the dugout!

Give the NL central some credit, gfoxcook.  The bottom of the division is not nearly as feeble as the bottom of the NL West.  The bottom 3 in the West have a .372 winning pctg.  The bottom 3 in the Central have a .424 winning pctg.    So, except for the Diamondbacks, the Astros were playing some pretty poor competition as they "finished the season schedule against the West"

And, conventional wisdom is you try to play .500 ball on the road and make hay at home, and that is what the Cubs have done. 

You guys have a good offensive team.  But, your league 11th pitching staff will have to improve before you can rightfully say you have a real chance.    Nice try , though.

We did play the Padres once we started hitting. We had a 9-run game against them and a 10-run game against them, IIRC. It was in a 3-game stretch where we scored 30 runs in those 3 games, regardless.

But yes, if we hadn't won 1 out of 4 to start the season at San Diego... because we played them a month or two later and won 3 of 4 instead, say... that sure would have been great, to pick up those games and not drop them.

houstros: "The Astros may have some more late-inning success against the Rangers. Their bullpen is AWFUL. I wouldn't be surprised to see some more late-game rallies. But the Astros and Rangers always seem to have one game that is a slugfest for one or both teams every season. Wonder when that one will be."

The very first one, it turned out! 16-8... heh.. figured, eh?

You may not have been paying attention, seeing as how your Cubs didn't have to play the West the first couple of weeks of April, but the West wasn't quite so weak at the very start of the season. The Giants sucked, yes. But the other four teams were doing decently or great those first two weeks.

That's why I was using the Astros' many many games out West early in the season, in addition to the whole "Cubs have played as many games at home as the Astros have on the road" to suggest that even though the Astros haven't managed to pass the Cubs in the standings as of mid-May 2008, the Astros are actually doing VERY well considering the schedules so far in the Central.

Jazzman61: "Give the NL central some credit, gfoxcook. The bottom of the division is not nearly as feeble as the bottom of the NL West. The bottom 3 in the West have a .372 winning pctg. The bottom 3 in the Central have a .424 winning pctg. So, except for the Diamondbacks, the Astros were playing some pretty poor competition as they "finished the season schedule against the West""

Again. Now it seems that way. A month ago, it didn't.