It is day 1000 of the virus hostage situation. Or so it seems. The regular baseball season should be well under way. MLB is apparently waiting until 327 million of us are infected and distracted before it will announce that instead of punishing the Red Sox that they are allowing the Yankees, Dodgers and Red…

This post was inspired by a friend of the blog – Sarge H For the time being the biggest area of concern is when and if the 2020 season will begin and end. But the Astros have a team that will be facing a lot of potential personnel changes in 2021 and 2022 due to…

As of last night, my county went into lockdown. My company started working from home yesterday. My internet and cable are both down. I can access some things through my phone but it is tough workwise because I can’t access our servers and drives and not easy to review documents, drawings etc.

This post was inspired by good friend of the blog – Sarge H. Here is a question to gnaw on for the next post season based on there actually being a 2020 season.

Today’s post is based on a suggestion from friend of the blog, Larry Leach.  Over the years the Astros have been involved in scouting, player development and winter leagues in building up their international presence. Players like all-time great Cesar Cedeno or not quite so great Luis Pujols were signed as free agents out of…

The media obsession with the latest “thing” is nothing new to the world. I was talking to a person who had a young family member come back from the army almost 60 years ago and commit a horrendous crime against members of the family. He said they were grateful when Marilyn Monroe died because it…