Category: Astros
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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.
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ChipalattAwards for Mapril

Well, these awards are mostly for April, but the team did start with 4 losses against the Yankees in March, so this is a look at who has earned awards for the Mapril combo. The team ended April at a miserable 10-19 and last place in the AL West.
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Astros 2024: You have 3 wishes

Growing up, I was kind of confused about this Genie (or Jeannie) in a bottle thing. If you watched the Twilight Zone episode, I Dream of Genie, you knew if you found the special bottle, a genie would appear and grant you three wishes only. On the other hand, if you were an astronaut and…
