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Carlos Lee fitting in with Astros

12:16 PM Sun, Apr 01, 2007 |
Butch Alsandor
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Do you remember what the last day of school felt like when
you were a kid? The Astros do. They feel the same freedom
when the last meaningless spring game is done.

On Friday the team was at Minute Maid Park setting up
their lockers for the real season.
It was a lockerroom filled with so much promise , and a lot
of laughter provided by Carlos Lee ? That's right , the Astros newest
slugger appears to fitting in really well with his new teammates .

Lee is already poking fun at fellow "bash brother" Lance Berkman,
spreading tape around Lance's locker which read , stay in your own space
Berkman please! Of course it was all done in fun and Berkman even
got a chuckle out of it .

According to Berkman, "Carlos is a great guy and he likes to have fun."
Lance , you haven't seen nothing yet , wait until he punches out 35 or 45 homers.
Only time will tell , but so far, Lee's ego doesn't appear to be nearly
as big as his bat.

Speaking of good guys, Roy Oswalt will make his 5th consective
openning day start on Monday in front of a packed house at
Minute Maid. So don't look for the Pirated to drop a belated April fool's
joke on the Astros.
Roy told me he still gets a little pumped up for openning day, and this
comes from a man who's won 20, 20, and 15 games over the last 3 years.
He understands its a long season, but there's nothing like setting a good
tone on the first day .

While it was really great to see Hunter Pence knocking the cover off the baseball.
Watching Wandy getting "rocked steady baby" knowing he would still
be in the rotation got old during spring training .
So now its time to let the real games and the race for the World Series
get underway .




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