Author: Dan P
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World champion edition: What they said, what they meant
Today is a return to an oldie but goodie – What They Said, What They Meant. As always, an Astros related quote is posted followed by what they really meant to say.
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Houston Astros: 9 statistical oddities from 2017
After a great season like the Astros had in 2017, it is fun to look back at statistical oddities, because so many of them are on the positive side.
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Houston Astros’ resolutions for 2018
Happy New Years, fellow Chipalots and Chipalettes!! After a 2017 that fulfilled the wishes of our Astro lifetimes – it is hard to gear up for another run at the big ring. It is just more fun to bask (as Chip so aptly put it) in the warmth of a World Championship season.
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Merry Christmas Chipalatta family!!
All Astro fans received their biggest Christmas present early this season as the first in a lifetime gift of a World Series championship came home to roost on November 1st. We at Chipalatta, wish all our fine readers a wonderful and blessed Christmas.
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Fire in the belly: How do Astros avoid being satisfied?
Digging back into the Writer’s Block post, here is a question and conversation starter from friend of the blog, Tim. “How do we avoid the dreaded World Series hangover that the past 4 champions have experienced? They showed the records of the past 4 champions at the ASB and I think the Cubs this past…
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2017 Rule 5 may be a ho-hummer for the Astros
Major League Baseball will hold its annual Rule 5 draft this Thursday and unlike other years this one may be a ho-ho-hummer for the Houston Astros. Without getting too detailed here – the Rule 5 draft allows a minor league player to be picked by another major league club, if they have spent either four…
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Houston Astros: The challenges of winning again
In reply to the recent “Writer’s Blog” post, good friend of the blog, Old Pro proposed that we write about “How winning a ring might change the Astros as an organization, as a team and individually. Why is it so hard to win another one?”
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