By Historian
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 14, 2000.

While some expected the Astros to backslide a bit this year with the losses of Mike Hampton and Carl Everett, it’s safe to say most people are shocked at how much the team has fallen. It’s not the first time the Astros have failed to live up to expectations and, if history is an indicator, the Astros ship may not be righted until the 2002 season. Since a recent Sports Illustrated article cited the attendance “honeymoon” for teams in new stadiums to last one-to-two seasons, the timing of a return to fortune may be important for the economic welfare and viability of the team.Read More

By Breedlove
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 7, 2000.

Second installment of a six part Breedlove series evaluating the 2000 Astros.Read More

By Breedlove
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on May 30, 2000.

This is the first installment of a six part Breedlove series evaluating the 2000 Astros. Read More

By David in Jackson
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on May 23, 2000.

It’s a tough time to be an Astros fan — especially in Jackson, Mississippi.

1. The team stinks.
2. Our much-hyped new stadium hosts an AL-style of ball we had disdained, and has been ridiculed as Coors South.
3. That hill is stupid and Roger Cedeno’s spleen is at risk every day.
4. The team’s AA affiliate plays in Austin, not Jackson’s Smith-Wills Stadium.
5. The Jackson DiamondKats, an expansion team in the Independent Texas-Louisiana League, got beat 16-4 the other night by a team from Greenville, Mississippi.

So what to do?Read More

By Tone Loc

Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on April 20, 2000.

Perhaps the most tiresome cliche in today’s corporate world is the “paradigm shift”, a fancy-sounding buzzword that’s been used to describe everything from the decade-long bull market to the emergence of Jesse Ventura to the popularity of bread machines. Like all overworked expressions, its utterance today draws more groans than a trip to the proctologist, but even so all such platitudes contain in them a grain of inspiration, and a paradigm shift is exactly the most appropriate term to describe the new on-field challenges that the move to Enron Field has thrust upon the Astro organization.Read More