Straight from the Ask a Stupid Question factory...
The calendar has hit June 1. Is it time to pull the plug on the Astros?"Absolutely not," said Astros owner Drayton McLane. "Remember last year everybody wanted to bury us at the All-Star break? We made one change. We changed our manager and brought in Phil Garner. That gave a lift to the team."
What's Drayton supposed to say?
I figure that if you jabbed him with a needle full of truth serum, you might get:
Yes, we suck. I lost a great general manager, pissed away Beltran and Kent, starved my farm system so we would up with this batch of reject kids, gave Bagwell everything he wanted so that we'd be screwed when his well-known crippling injury finished him off, and I'm going to raise beer prices by a buck.If I were a Johnny Q. Sixpack, I'd tell myself don't bother fighting the traffic and the hassle of finding a parking space, and just go home and spend some quality time with your families. Watch on television, save yourself the hassle. But then, what do I care, 'cause revenue at the park is just chump change compared to all the endorsements and contracts we've got along with this dirt cheap ballpark you fools gave me.
Sounds about right to me.
And to think, we could have gotten an NHL franchise.