This last Sunday was a typical day for the Astros’ fans this year. We felt good when the team swamped the red-hot D’Backs in the series’ first two games. But after watching future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander give away game three before the first beer was glugged, this crazy feeling continues to come back.…

As anyone who may read this post knows, I almost always link present-day Astro occurrences with some happening in Astros and baseball history after my almost 60 years of fandom. Sometimes I’m sure it may be annoying. “Oh, here he goes again, telling us about the time Julio Gotay pulled the hidden ball trick in…

Note – I wrote most of this before Verlander’s recent loss – so it is not based on that outing. First, here is a statement of fact.

Pitching. Pitching. Pitching. The Astros went 18-10 in August. Despite playing three more games than in April, when they were 10-15, the Astros scored fewer runs in August (119 runs) than in April (121) in a month when they floundered. And this was due to a historically great month of pitching.

As our friends with Monty Python might say, now for something completely different.

As fans of any team (in this case, the Astros), we tend to follow specific patterns in our thinking and fall into poor habits as fans and human beings. This includes…

In many ways, if you consider a baseball season beginning the moment the previous season is in the books, it is a year-long series of options. Starting in the offseason, there are a plethora of options, though the budget often reduces the scope and size of those options. Who do you keep? Who do you…

Six weeks from yesterday is the last game of the season for the Astros. Six weeks can mean a lot of things in a baseball season.