Chron beat writer shocked to discover sour clubhouse
Toxic time for Astros, and that's bad (Jesus Ortiz, Chron Baseball Blog)
If you've spent a few minutes in the Astros' clubhouse these days, you'd feel bad for the boys.
"It's real bad in here," a player told me as soon as I got into the clubhouse Tuesday to try to get an unbiased opinion to the comments I read in the paper Monday from Roy Oswalt and Cecil Cooper. "It's not going to get better."
What? I was both stunned and saddened.
Of course. Because surely Drayton McLane had been telling him everything is swell. And what Mr. McLane tells his PR man on the Chron staff is usually regarded as the last/only word on the matter.
Kudos to Richard Justice for raising questions about what's going on in the clubhouse (yeah, we can compliment the guy when he makes a good point).
Come on, football season.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/18/08 21:05 | Sports | Technorati
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Yesterday, a local radio station had quotes from Cooper:
"We're playing hard."
"We're in every game."
"We just can't get over the hump"
"We need to keep plugging away."
It was painful. And if Ortiz de Jesus is stunned, then he's been watching some other team play.
Posted by anne @ 06:52 on 06/21/08
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