Astros Continue to Excel...at Ineptitude and Lack of Direction.

                                             "So this is what a 5th Place Team looks like?"

The Astros decided to try and put lipstick on a pig Sunday afternoon as they fired hitting coach Sean Berry and replaced him with all time great Jeff Bagwell effective Thursday.  Bagwell will hold the job on an interim basis and then decide after the season whether or not he wants to keep the job on a full time basis.  Bagwell might do a great job and he might not, but his hiring is yet another example of the Astros brain trust and ownership being out of touch with reality.  Video of the worst GM in baseball explaining the decision can be found here: http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100711&content_id=12179284&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou

What's funny is that Ed Wade thinks Bagwell is going to turn this lineup into a well oiled machine.  The only two guys with any kind of a positive track record (Berkman, Lee) have been in the bigs for over a decade.  Those guys are going to have to pull themselves out of their own slump.  Brad Mills better watch his back too, because you can already tell Drayton McClane is greasing the skids to put Bagwell in as manager. 
The Astros offense really does suck though: Houston ranks 28th in the league in runs scored, 29th in batting average, 27th in home runs and dead last in OPS.

Here's how the Heat trio ended up in Miami.  This was no coincidence.  This was tampering, 4 years in the making. http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/07/inside_the_decision_miamis_cou.html

How about some Lebron/Wade/Bosh props? http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2010/07/10/lebronageddeon-miami-heat-prop-bets-and-lebatard-goes-crazy/#more-54227

Carrie Underwood...Officially off the market.  She married NHL'er Mike Fisher on Saturday evening.

Could I interest anyone in a bicycle fight to get you interested in The Tour De France?