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The worst minors in baseball for years. Terrible scouting and drafting coupled with bad signings(Carlos Lee) and lots of really good players retiring or leaving(Bagwell, Pettitte)
Started From The Bottom And We Stayed: The 2013 Houston Astros Thread
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The worst minors in baseball for years. Terrible scouting and drafting coupled with bad signings(Carlos Lee) and lots of really good players retiring or leaving(Bagwell, Pettitte)
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forget wheres the seabass, these cats got a few shakes of Old Bay
forget wheres the seabass, these cats got a few shakes of Old Bay
Astros vendor brings snow cones into bathroom stall, gets fired | HardballTalk
This is on the short list of the most horrifying stories ever posted at HardballTalk.
An Aramark vendor at Mondays Royals-Astros game at Minute Maid was caught bringing his tray of snow cones into a bathroom stall with him. Click2Houston.com has the video taken by a concerned onlooker.
Remarkably, this happened in the first game attended by Reid Ryan in his new role as Astros team president.
Said the unnamed fan who turned in the vendor: I couldnt believe what I was seeing. This guy is taking a dump. Theres no doubt about it. What sane person could possibly think, yeah this is a good idea. Ill just put the food that Im about to sell on the floor.
The Astros are already in damage control mode, noting that Aramark terminated the vendor immediately upon learning of the incident:
The Astros share ARAMARKs view on the importance of food safety and will work with them to ensure that our fans have a safe and outstanding experience at Minute Maid Park. We also commend the fan for his vigilance in pointing out the inappropriate actions of the vendor. The Astros personally thanked him and advised him of the swift action taken in regard to the employee.
Started from the bottom and we stayed :harden::harden::harden:
This is on the short list of the most horrifying stories ever posted at HardballTalk.
An Aramark vendor at Mondays Royals-Astros game at Minute Maid was caught bringing his tray of snow cones into a bathroom stall with him. Click2Houston.com has the video taken by a concerned onlooker.
Remarkably, this happened in the first game attended by Reid Ryan in his new role as Astros team president.
Said the unnamed fan who turned in the vendor: I couldnt believe what I was seeing. This guy is taking a dump. Theres no doubt about it. What sane person could possibly think, yeah this is a good idea. Ill just put the food that Im about to sell on the floor.
The Astros are already in damage control mode, noting that Aramark terminated the vendor immediately upon learning of the incident:
The Astros share ARAMARKs view on the importance of food safety and will work with them to ensure that our fans have a safe and outstanding experience at Minute Maid Park. We also commend the fan for his vigilance in pointing out the inappropriate actions of the vendor. The Astros personally thanked him and advised him of the swift action taken in regard to the employee.
Started from the bottom and we stayed :harden::harden::harden:
god shamgod
Veteran
Please Don't draft mark appell thursday you inept bums
Skilltastrophy
Mizzou Mafia
Astros > Angels 
we on the come up now baby!
but we better draft Gray...I'm not an Appel fan...I don't think he has top of the rotation upside...and Bryant...I dunno enough about him other than he's got major pop...I read a some random scouting report that called him Pedro Alvarez...so smh @ that
we on the come up now baby!
but we better draft Gray...I'm not an Appel fan...I don't think he has top of the rotation upside...and Bryant...I dunno enough about him other than he's got major pop...I read a some random scouting report that called him Pedro Alvarez...so smh @ that
http://deadspin.com/the-astros-drew-a-0-00-nielsen-rating-1372996857
Last week we cringed to the news that the Astros drew an average local viewership of 1,000 people for a game—less than for an out-of-market WNBA game on at the same time. How bad could it get for yesterday's 9-2 loss at Cleveland, which went up against the Texans' game? Pretty damn bad.
Via the Chronicle, the Nielsen meters didn't budge. The game pulled a 0.00 rating in the Houston market. Officially and forever more, the Astros played a game and no one watched.
It's not as bad as it sounds. The Nielsen numbers are calculated by extrapolating a limited number of meters, in this case 581 of them. So it's more accurate to say that of 581 randomly selected Houston-area households, none tuned into the Astros game.
A more significant issue is that most of the Houstonians who want to watch Astros games can't. CSN Houston has been waging a year-long battle over carriage fees. At a stalemate since the channel went on the air last October, it's still not carried on AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV, and Dish Network. It's available in roughly 40 percent of Houston households.
This is a much bigger problem for the Astros than low ratings toward the end of a bad season. The team owns 46 percent of CSN Houston, which is undoubtedly running at a loss even without counting the massive startup costs for a new network.
CSN Houston "has been a bust," according to media research firm SNL Kagan.
SNL Kagan predicts CSN Houston will be unable to strike carriage deals until 2014 with Suddenlink, which services the Kingwood area and dozens of other markets across the five-state area, and 2015 with DirecTV. No projection was given for U-verse, and SNL Kagan said a deal with Dish Network is "unlikely," given its current stance on subscriber fees with regional sports networks.
A former AT&T official recently told an industry conference in New York that "viewer intensity" was so low in one of its key markets - presumably Houston - that U-verse did not fear losing customers if it delayed signing a deal with CSN Houston.
So maybe a 0.00 Nielsen rating sounds worse than it is, but if CSN Houston pulls more numbers like that without lowering its desired subscriber fee, it's going to be a long while before the majority of Houstonians are even able to watch Astros baseball.
According to Nielsen, nobody watched Astros-Indians game Sunday [Chronicle]
Understandable given how sorry the Astros are and the fact that they were up against the Texans, but still ...
Last week we cringed to the news that the Astros drew an average local viewership of 1,000 people for a game—less than for an out-of-market WNBA game on at the same time. How bad could it get for yesterday's 9-2 loss at Cleveland, which went up against the Texans' game? Pretty damn bad.
Via the Chronicle, the Nielsen meters didn't budge. The game pulled a 0.00 rating in the Houston market. Officially and forever more, the Astros played a game and no one watched.
It's not as bad as it sounds. The Nielsen numbers are calculated by extrapolating a limited number of meters, in this case 581 of them. So it's more accurate to say that of 581 randomly selected Houston-area households, none tuned into the Astros game.
A more significant issue is that most of the Houstonians who want to watch Astros games can't. CSN Houston has been waging a year-long battle over carriage fees. At a stalemate since the channel went on the air last October, it's still not carried on AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV, and Dish Network. It's available in roughly 40 percent of Houston households.
This is a much bigger problem for the Astros than low ratings toward the end of a bad season. The team owns 46 percent of CSN Houston, which is undoubtedly running at a loss even without counting the massive startup costs for a new network.
CSN Houston "has been a bust," according to media research firm SNL Kagan.
SNL Kagan predicts CSN Houston will be unable to strike carriage deals until 2014 with Suddenlink, which services the Kingwood area and dozens of other markets across the five-state area, and 2015 with DirecTV. No projection was given for U-verse, and SNL Kagan said a deal with Dish Network is "unlikely," given its current stance on subscriber fees with regional sports networks.
A former AT&T official recently told an industry conference in New York that "viewer intensity" was so low in one of its key markets - presumably Houston - that U-verse did not fear losing customers if it delayed signing a deal with CSN Houston.
So maybe a 0.00 Nielsen rating sounds worse than it is, but if CSN Houston pulls more numbers like that without lowering its desired subscriber fee, it's going to be a long while before the majority of Houstonians are even able to watch Astros baseball.
According to Nielsen, nobody watched Astros-Indians game Sunday [Chronicle]
Understandable given how sorry the Astros are and the fact that they were up against the Texans, but still ...
Yeah I just heard the local radio guys talking about this. Shameful. I don't care what the odds are, not one person? SMH.http://deadspin.com/the-astros-drew-a-0-00-nielsen-rating-1372996857
Last week we cringed to the news that the Astros drew an average local viewership of 1,000 people for a game—less than for an out-of-market WNBA game on at the same time. How bad could it get for yesterday's 9-2 loss at Cleveland, which went up against the Texans' game? Pretty damn bad.
Via the Chronicle, the Nielsen meters didn't budge. The game pulled a 0.00 rating in the Houston market. Officially and forever more, the Astros played a game and no one watched.
It's not as bad as it sounds. The Nielsen numbers are calculated by extrapolating a limited number of meters, in this case 581 of them. So it's more accurate to say that of 581 randomly selected Houston-area households, none tuned into the Astros game.
A more significant issue is that most of the Houstonians who want to watch Astros games can't. CSN Houston has been waging a year-long battle over carriage fees. At a stalemate since the channel went on the air last October, it's still not carried on AT&T, Time Warner, DirecTV, and Dish Network. It's available in roughly 40 percent of Houston households.
This is a much bigger problem for the Astros than low ratings toward the end of a bad season. The team owns 46 percent of CSN Houston, which is undoubtedly running at a loss even without counting the massive startup costs for a new network.
CSN Houston "has been a bust," according to media research firm SNL Kagan.
SNL Kagan predicts CSN Houston will be unable to strike carriage deals until 2014 with Suddenlink, which services the Kingwood area and dozens of other markets across the five-state area, and 2015 with DirecTV. No projection was given for U-verse, and SNL Kagan said a deal with Dish Network is "unlikely," given its current stance on subscriber fees with regional sports networks.
A former AT&T official recently told an industry conference in New York that "viewer intensity" was so low in one of its key markets - presumably Houston - that U-verse did not fear losing customers if it delayed signing a deal with CSN Houston.
So maybe a 0.00 Nielsen rating sounds worse than it is, but if CSN Houston pulls more numbers like that without lowering its desired subscriber fee, it's going to be a long while before the majority of Houstonians are even able to watch Astros baseball.
According to Nielsen, nobody watched Astros-Indians game Sunday [Chronicle]
Understandable given how sorry the Astros are and the fact that they were up against the Texans, but still ...
Relevant to this thread title, even though the Asstros are irrelevant:
http://www.csnhouston.com/blog/astros-talk/drake-has-astros-tattoo-shoulder
http://www.csnhouston.com/blog/astros-talk/drake-has-astros-tattoo-shoulder