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.

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…

Has it really been only six weeks since the Astros basked in the glory of its first World Series championship? Can’t the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Cubs, Dodgers and others just give a guy a chance to bask in peace? So much for peace on earth, good will toward men!

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…

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?”

There are many tasks in the blogging year that are real chores. Picking out the top ten games of a year that ended in the Houston Astros’ first World Series title was more a labor of love. There can be a lot of different opinions about this list, and that is the point. This is…

Sometimes it is just really hard to write about baseball. The season is over. The season has brought us all any of us could ask for from a Houston Astros’ season. All the whining and complaining we all did before and during the season and the playoffs seems pretty silly at this point. The team we…