I just want to bitch about the Houston Astros for a minute...1) They completely suck coming out of the opening day gate. 2) With too much hype, they sign Roger Clemens to a ceremonious and prorated 19 million dollars (due to his uniform number). 3) They climb back over .500 and had one of the hottest records in baseball since the All-Star break. 4) Houston trailed the Cardinals by 8 1/2 games on Aug. 19, when the Astros were 72-78. They pulled within a half-game of the lead with a nine-game winning streak that ended Friday night at Atlanta. 5) The Astros went into the final day trailing St. Louis by 1 1/2 games 6) They had Andy Pettitte come out to start Saturday's game on 3 days rest. They won. 7) They put the ball in a rookie's hand and asked him to win his 3rd straight game to start his career. 8) They were facing the Atlanta Braves (who just had their 14 year divisional title streak snapped this year) and John Smoltz (who was Atlanta's bright spot this year). He pitched 6 shutout innings. 9) Houston finished with a record of 82-80. If Houston had won and St. Louis had lost to Milwaukee, the Cardinals would've had to play a makeup game Monday against San Francisco. Then if the Cardinals had lost to San Francisco in the makeup game, they would have had to face Houston for the one game playoff on Tuesday for the division title. The Cardinals ended up 3 and 7 for their last 10 games.

In my opinion, the Astros blew it and they wasted too much money on Roger Clemens. It would have been fine if they would have only given him more run support. That would of made up for 8 losses...

Oh well, GO DODGERS :-)