My Thoughts

March 31st marked the start of the Major League Baseball season. April 3rd marked the start of the Houston Astros regular season and they marked this with a Win against the Florida Marlins. Despite all the drama between Jeff Bagwell and the team’s owner Drayton McLane, game 1 marked the debut of the Astros lone African-American player, Preston Wilson. and it wasn’t until game 3 that he showed Houston what he came to do.

He hit his first home run in the Astros third Game against the Florida Marlins helping the team win the game and take the series 2 -1. So far from what I’ve seen of his play the dude got some skills, he has a total of 4 homeruns and some pretty outstanding defensive plays in the outfield. Maybe the Astros will take his positives and add some more Black players to the team because having on 1 is just plain pathetic.

Soapbox: And no, just because the Hispanic players look black doesn’t make them black. They are of Hispanic descent (yes I heard this argument on the radio sports shows here. Folks were referring the Beltran and Tavares as Black Hispanics. When if fact these fellas are from countries in south America.). So far so good Mr. Preston Wilson I will be watching to see how the team progresses with your bat being added to line up since we didn’t manage to bring back the Rocket Roger Clemmons, it’s going to be interesting to see how this baseball season will progress.