Category: Astros
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Book Review: Astroball, The Cover and understanding today’s success
Chipalatta goes where Chipalatta has never gone before with a book review of “Astroball” by Ben Reiter. This is one of many sports-related gifts your dutiful servant received between Father’s Day and his birthday this last summer and, this one is specifically relevant with our Astros and their off-season losses, dealings and additions.
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Astros 2019: A look at the Michael Brantley signing

Here is a look at multiple facets of the Michael Brantley signing by the Astros.
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Astros 2019: If you had your rathers…

As the off-season continues to be the biggest non-event since Geraldo showed us Al Capone’s “vault”, we here at Chipalatta.com will attempt to stimulate audience participation with a little diddy called “Would You Rather”?
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Astros’ top 10 teams of all time: Part 2
Here is a continuation of the top Astro teams of all time as we look at #5 on up to #1.
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Astros top 10 teams of all time: Part 1

If you are thinking this is the type of post, Dan P does when he is bored writing about an off-season that is moving slower than a soap opera plot…..you would be right.
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Eventful or anti-climactic? Astros head to the winter meetings

The last time the Astros went to the World Series…..boy, does that sound like an arrogant lead-in. Grey Poupon should be served with that statement. Maybe the nicer way of putting this is, “The second time in the Astros’ 57 season history that they went to the World Series and the first time they won…
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Can the 2019 Astros actually improve over the 2018 version?

Every generation normally shares one wish for their children. They wish that the next generation has it better than they had it.
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What I don’t understand about baseball and the Astros

Since Sears is late delivering our Hot Stove, it feels like time to just throw out random things that have occurred or will occur in the near future that I don’t understand about baseball and in some cases specifically about the Astros. What? Sears filed for bankruptcy? Maybe that Hot Stove is never coming.
