By Pepper28
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on July 6, 2001.

It’s All-Star time again. You know what that means: three days with no meaningful baseball, two of which are the only days in the year on which there are no professional sporting events in America; hype increasing at an exponential rate as the quality of the product decreases at an even faster speed; and, of course, idiot fans electing the wrong players.Read More

By Knoxbanedoodle
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 11, 2001.

Some people want to bring heat on the Hun right now because the Astros are underachieving. But let’s take a look at it, seriously.

You can imagine that during one of last year’s ridiculous games, where the opposition ran all over Mitch Meluskey and exploded against the bullpen as if we had cloned Doug Henry six or seven times, the Hun sat in his air conditioned suite, perhaps fiddling with his nice cuff links, and thought: “This is hell.”Read More

By Baylor Boy
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 1, 2001.

With Felipe Alou getting canned by the Expos, it’s time for the Astros to make a move of their own. Houston can and should “reassign” Larry Dierker within the organization and go after Alou.Read More

By Waldo
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on May 25, 2001.

When a team gets off to a bad start, its fans will generally say “It’s still early, we can still turn it around.” I, for one, was guilty of that with the Astros last season. I’m not quite sure how long I allowed myself to use that excuse before I finally realized how much the team actually sucked. The expectations one has for a team can often make him/her blind to the cold, hard truth, and I’m fairly certain that I wasn’t the only victim of that last season (at least, for a little while).Read More