Category: Astros
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ChipalattAwards for May
The Astros’ month of May was one of stopping the bleeding after finishing April at 10-19. The 15-14 record in May did slow the bleeding but losing 3-of-4 to the Mariners at the end of the month put the brakes on their turnaround. It was a month where a few folks fell off the deep…
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What the heck is going on with Ryan Pressly and other stuff?
Tuesday night was a frustrating team loss with one exception. The exception was Hunter Brown, who has seemingly turned things around. After an assist from brain-dead base running by Julio Rodriguez (think Jose Altuve 2.0), that limited the M’s to one run in the first, he hit his stride and finished with six innings of…
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Memorial Day ’24 and Astros’ thoughts
As always, today (and every day), we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and our way of life. I am honored to have the middle name Lee, which is named after my great uncle Leroy Klug.
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Astros 2024: The meaning of life
Front-end warning here: The definition of the meaning of life below should be taken with the same seriousness as that expounded in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life—maybe less.
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Astros 2024: A self-inflicted Q&A
Hello Loyal Readers and thank you for your patience. This has been an interesting week away and perhaps my longest period without posting an article since Chip and Brian were sharing scribe duties. This was a combination of a vacation where I just did not have access to the writing tools for the blog and…
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Astros 2024: 21st century schizoid men
Apologies to the pioneers of Progressive rock music (King Crimson), but the title of a track on their debut album seemed like a perfect lead-in to today’s post.
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Astros 2024: What can they do?
Hopefully, you folks haven’t despaired over my lack of posts this week. Along with having a crazy schedule at work, I’ve been a bit of a dry-hole this week. This task of figuring out what the team could do may not have been the best theme to choose when I was struggling. Anyway – here…
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Astros 2024: YIE morphs Into INSE
As Sarge, a friend of the blog, pointed out, the Astros are now past the 20% pole and continuing to scuffle after dropping the last two games of the Mariner series.
ALL THINGS ASTROS 