Category: Chip Bailey
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Baseball Superstitions: The Quirky, Sacred, and Just Plain Weird

Baseball’s full of magic—if you know where to look. Yes, it’s a weird game, but that’s why we love it, right?
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The State of the Astros: 2025 marks a defining era for Houston

As the Houston Astros wrap up spring training and gear up for Opening Day, they enter a season of transition—perhaps the most pivotal since their rise to dominance nearly a decade ago. Frankly, I have a lot of questions – and I’m guessing you do too.
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Greatest Hits: The All-Time Astros’ Team

Hey, this is Chip Bailey, stepping in today for Dan Peschong who is doing an incredible job of carrying the mantle of one of the longest-running blogs in blogdom. We started in 2005 when comments were manually posted (and approved) and our blog was next to those of Richard Justice and Jose de Jesus Ortiz.…
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Astros’ questions from the head Chip: Part 3

The Chip in Chipalatta, Chip Bailey, who is the founder of this blog, has come forward to do what he did earlier in the year and has sent me a set of intriguing and difficult “interview” questions for your not-so-humble servant to address. This will be Part 3 and last of the Chip / Dan…
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Astros’ questions from the head Chip: Part 2

The Chip in Chipalatta, Chip Bailey, who is the founder of this blog, has come forward to do what he did earlier in the year and has sent me a set of intriguing and difficult “interview” questions for your not-so-humble servant to address.
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Astros’ questions from the head Chip: Part 1

The Chip in Chipalatta, Chip Bailey, who is the founder of this blog, has come forward to do what he did earlier in the year and has sent me a set of intriguing and difficult “interview” questions for your not-so-humble servant to address.
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Astros 2023 – The “Big” Interview

First, a few apologies to Dan Rather for stealing the title of his fine interview show on AXS TV. We are not on the same side of the political spectrum, but he has tremendous interviewing skills, and I definitely recognize that. Today’s blog post is from the mind of the founder of this wonderful site,…

