Everybody's Working for the Weekend

This past weekend, Stephen went home to Houston (mmmm drink it in) for a crawfish boil, and had a good time by all accounts. My girlfriend’s sorority had their Spring Formal on Saturday, and I got to dance on a boat to a GREAT 80’s cover band. So with these events in mind, plus the lack of pertinent Astros related action, we decided to not post anything yesterday. That being said, I did manage to go out to a local retailer on Saturday and purchase myself and Stephen two brand-spanking new Astros Batting Practice caps. Let me be the first to beseech everyone who reads this post to go out immediately, disregarding life and other obligations and purchase one of these caps. Not only are they stylish, but they feel so damn good whilst on your head. Seriously though. I cannot get this thing off of my head. Well, I can, but why would I want to? This week NewERA ™ will release the regular season caps in addition to continuing to sell the batting practice caps that have been selling quite well. These hats are an upgrade over the old authentic caps because they have a new polyester lining, as opposed to the wool that constituted one hundred percent of the old hats.

Stephen managed to catch Saturday’s game against Detroit, which was a roller-coaster ride. Thus, he reports:

Saturday was the first time I’ve had the opportunity to see Jason Jennings dawn the Astros uniform, and I must say, I liked the way it looked. Outside of that, I can’t say all that much. Jennings looked good for most of his work, but left a few too many balls up for my liking. But, it’s Spring Training still and Jennings is by all accounts still just tweaking his stuff, so I won’t be to critical.

It was also my first opportunity to view Carlos Lee in the uniform and I was highly impressed with…his defense!! He and Craig both moved well on the field for two guys slated to be defensive voids on the field because of their lack of range. While Carlos didn’t make any spectacular plays that I witnessed in the first six innings I viewed before I went off to gorge myself on crawfish, he demonstrated an exceptional amount of range in comparison to what I had him pegged for. Combined with two extraordinary plays (for Craig) that I saw Craig make, I was filled with a warm sense of relief, in that I feel our defense might not be as terrible I fear.

Now, Evan and I are giddy with excitement for our double date to the Astros v. The Express exhibition game on Thursday. We have secured for ourselves some very choice 3rd base line seats and we’ll even have pictures to show you guys. We’re not sure how much we will really have for you guys this week as far as substance, but after Thursday we should start rolling. We are T-minus one week!!!

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