Memo to Bobby Howry

It’s not all your fault, If we could’ve just come through with the bases loaded, you wouldn’t even have been in that situation.

P.S. Try pitching inside sometimes. Thanks.

have a pitch other than his fastball? It really is amazing that he has done as well as he has in his career. As a hitter, all you have to do is look for the fastball away and smack it into right field (or left field if you’re a lefty).

I’m citing you for a PUI (posting under the influence).

Why on a 0-2 count don’t you try just coming inside? Instead you put a letter high fastball just a little outside, I hope he makes the neccessary changes because he is an important part of our bullpen

is the reason we lost. If he gets the run in, it goes Marmol then Wood. No Howry needed. I’ll say it again…only mop-up for that guy til June. He sucks.

Fontenot has horrible AB’s in big situations.

Lou totally over managed the 8th. Best PH got burned without swinging the stick.

Let Ronnie hit, see where it goes. Hopefully Lou learned from last night.

Seriously, everyone knows that Howry throws fastball after fastball after fastball. How hard would it be to develop a pitch where he holds the ball in the palm of his hand like real pitchers do?

What the hell is going to happen when they blow a game in late August or September.

He starts slow, he always starts slow. Good excuse? Probably not, but it is what it is. Same like last year; it won’t be until about Memorial Day until he kicks it up a couple notches.

You wanna rip on him, rip on him for trying to challenge a hitter with at fastball that isn’t as fast as it should be, with less break than it should have a right down the pipe. That’s what you rip on, not what he actually threw.

Besides it was high and outside, that was a lucky swing on a waste pitch. And if he came inside with the batter keeping his hands close to the vest and pulled it down the LF line for a HR, all the cliff jumpers would be ripping on him for that.

And another thing (sound like Rosenbloom again), if you had clue about how pitchers in general approach an AB, a waste pitch 80-90% of the time is NOT inside, its outside and even more often low outside the zone.

This team is 16-9 with some maddening inconsistencies in the early going and they are still one of the best teams in MLB right now. This isn’t the short-class A league that plays something like 70 games which would put them around the 1/3rd point of the season. They’re less than a 1/6th of the season.

Lets see where they’re at come say the end of the Rockies series here the end of May. That’ll have given Lou plenty of time to assess the situation and if changes are to be in order you can bet he’ll be bending Jim’s ear.

One last thing….Al, if you read this can you remind people here again that the diary poster has to put something of substance in their diary. For once, just once, I’d love to see how well some of these cliff jumpers can play the game themselves.