Houston Astros: Arrogance or Stupidity?
Baseball, Drugs, Mitchell Report January 16th. 2008, 1:05pm
Hopefully you didn’t waste one second watching baseball’s congressional hearings (aka Dog and Pony Show) Tuesday. Wiser options: Clipping your fingernails, attempting to sit through two girls one cup, or organizing your grandma’s attic. The only interesting subplot: Miguel Tejada allegedly lied to Congress investigators in 2005, and his next trick won’t be spring training, but rather avoiding prison. Which leads us to the dumbest team in baseball – just how bleepin’ bad do the Houston Astros look trading for Tejada (a long-rumored cheater) the day before the Mitchell Report was released? (Great photo of Bud digging for gold after the jump.)
Baseball officials (but not owners) apparently had the Mitchell Report on December 11th, and the report came out on the 13th. Surely some teams had to know at least a handful of the marquee players on the list … did Houston think the Mitchell Report was just going to blow over? Either way, this whole “Good Guys” slogan is the laughingstock of baseball right now.
Deceit spins out of control (Houston Chronicle)
Anyone else think that Houston’s nonchalance with this matter still leaves the door ajar for Rocket and his “personal services” once he officially retires?
And courtesy of Big Head DC:
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January 16th, 2008 at 1:07 PM
I flippin’ knew I should have followed the jump.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:11 PM
TBL, the new GM there is Ed Wade, formerly of the Phils. Being from Philly, let’s just say I am NOT surprised Wade fell into this type of thing. Even when the trade was first made, there were questions as to why it was done, because of the PED business.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:11 PM
That is first knuckle deep! Damn that is a nose
January 16th, 2008 at 1:15 PM
seriously. who is brian windhorst?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Who cares anymore about this nonsense?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Bud would like everyone to know that he takes full responsibility for this problem.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:18 PM
You’re missing the real story hear… In light of the possibility of Tejada heading to the clink, it looks like the Orioles actually, maybe, possibly, made a decent trade to improve their team.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Thanks TBL, first the Rockets choke against a team on a 7 game losing streak, and now you kick the Astros while they are down. What’s your encore? Do you anally rape my mother while pouring sugar in my gas tank?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:24 PM
clerks quotes. nice.
seriously, brian windhorst? can you point me in the direction where there would be cordless phones?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Wait how are they going to prove he lied? I mean wasn’t all the evidence in the Mitchell report pretty shaky, and would never hold up in a court of law?
This sounds like Congress grandstanding rather than an actual investigation
January 16th, 2008 at 1:30 PM
That is just like picking the nose on Wario Ware for Nintendo Wii!!! Anyone??
January 16th, 2008 at 1:31 PM
@jibblescribbits 1
You mean to tell me they are wasting our tax dollars!!! I just can’t go on.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:32 PM
i doubt they can prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt that Tejada lied.
most of that was grandstanding yesterday, especially the woman who went on for a good 5 minutes about MLB committing fraud to the fans. You know it’s bad when Mike Greenberg takes the side of the whacked out congresswoman and really thinks MLB committed fraud.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Yeah, Peter Angelos deserves some props, for sure.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
@benji – someone on here yesterday opened my eyes to old games on the Wii. $30.00 and 10 hours later I quit playing. That had to be the best fun I had with $30.00 since the last time I went to Cleveland and picked up a five dollar hooker.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
@Gonzo
You took the words right out of my mouth. Ed Wade hasn’t made a decent trade in his entire career as a GM, so when you saw he picked up Tejada for a few cans of tuna, you just KNEW he was going to be in the Mitchell Report. That’s what the Astros get for hiring him — prepare for at least 8 years of long-term contracts and mediocrity!
January 16th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I think they are using Tejada as an example to the next round of players to testify, in the end I do not think it will not be that big of a deal. Plus did you see that Tejada’s brother was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday in the Dominican? Talk about a bad news day.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:41 PM
@Magglio Merkin :
I know, I’m as shocked and outraged as you are. I thought they were a well-oiled machine
January 16th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Wario Ware games are awesome. You should try the one on the Nintendo DS. It’s addicting.
Congress has better things to do than worry about steroids. Like building better schools, roads, etc.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Peter Angleos never deservers props, he is the one who ran the Orioles into the ground and made them the joke they are.
And screw Tejada, we paid him millions for all his steroid accomlishments and the dick couldn’t even run out a ground ball, plus he sucks in the field.
Did they ever come to a finding about whether Palmeiro committed perjury?
January 16th, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Angelos deserves props is like saying Jarrett Carter should be allowed to write a commenter post.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Always good to see taxpayer $ dedicated to cracking down on grown men shooting each other in the ass with “B-12″ shots.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Definition of a bad day: Congress tells the Dept of Justice to investigate you for perjury. And then your brother dies. Poor Miggy.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:36 PM
As an Astros fan… I don’t know what to say, I thought the same thing as well. We traded 3 or 5 stud prospects for him too. Fuck