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Dear Drayton,
First of all, as a life long fan of baseball and especially the Houston Astros, I’d like to thank you for putting a competitive team on the field since you took over the reins from John McMullen several years ago. I think sometimes I lose sight of what it was like to be a fan of a franchise where winning happened about as often as one of your current pitchers going more than an inning without giving up a homerun.Read More

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Hello everybody! (Hello Dr. Zipp!) Welcome to another wonderful season of Astros baseball. Our motto for 2001 is “Welcome Home…if you have to pay 20 bucks for a hotdog and a beer while watching Rabbits and choo-choo trains in your house.”Read More

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Due to the last minute bolting down of some seats in the nether-reaches of Enron Field, my father and I were able to continue our tradition of attending the Astros’ home opener.  Of course, being in Enron, it made the day that much more special, or so I would have been led to believe.  Let me tell you guys, Enron is not all it’s cracked up to be.Read More

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They say that during Spring Training, every team is a World Series contender (besides the Twins) and that hope is doing something eternal. So now that Spring Training is over and Opening Day is upon us, people are busy making predictions about everything from revenue streams to the size of Barry Bonds’ ego to exactly when they’ll replace the term cracker jack with something they actually still sell in ballparks. And since it’s that time of year, I proudly present my “expert” predictions (wacko) for Baseball In The Year 2000…Read More