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.

As a friend of the blog, Daveb, pointed out recently, the Astros, since June 18,has turned a 10-game deficit to the Seattle Mariners into a 3-game lead. The Astros have been playing better in the last couple months, but they certainly have been helped by how poorly the M’s have been playing over that time.…

A couple of years ago, we put together the following tome on the 10 greatest trades in Astros history.

The Astros expended a lot of energy and had quite a bit of good fortune (they were chasing the equally inept Mariners) while getting back into the AL West pennant race. But lately their failures have revolved around an unexpected area of the team.

Chip Bailey is the founder of the feast around here, and when he speaks out, I listen. He has a lot going on outside of sports these days, so his texts are usually news blips about the Astros with a few cryptic words. But yesterday, he dumped a couple of texts on me that were…