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It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel…

Queasy. Even though I’ve known this announcement was coming for a couple of weeks, seeing it glowing ominously on my CRT this morning, it still feels like a sharp shot to the gut, and makes it all too real.

So whether this site exists until the end of the week or the end of the season, to steal from the “Naked Gun”, I feel like I’ve swallowed a gallon of Clorox…I’m cleaned out but I’m all hollow inside. The truth is, I feel like I’m writing a eulogy for a dear friend.Read More

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You know that horrible defining moment clich? that pops up in sports?  You know the one… “When a defining moment occurs, either you define the moment or the moment defines you.” Surely you’ve seen it on high school locker room bulletin boards, or perhaps on the t-shirt of that guy living under a freeway trying to sell you a newspaper. The Astros are about to face one of those defining moments.Read More

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It’s been said that before the introduction of the Internet, village idiots used to stay in their own villages.  

Alan Zinter has about as much chance as making the Astros opening day roster as Jayson Williams does of being the keynote speaker at the Limo Drivers Union annual meeting.  The same could be said of Jim Mann, Ricky Stone, that Olive-Oyl looking shortstop (the one with the personal problems) or the host of minor league players who aren’t even in camp.  And yet, almost as regularly as Dan Ackroyd (remember when he was funny…man the 70’s were a long time ago) or John Goodman plays the bewildered father, someone is claiming some ridiculous insight about one of these guys being a necessary spoke in the major league wheel.  Read More

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Of Gonzos Past?

I’m not much of a crier or a weeper.  As a bit of a throwback in the sensitivity area, there isn’t much in sports that moves me to the point of tears anymore.  The Astros haven’t won anything of significance in well, forever, so I can honestly say, baseball wise, the last time I got visibly emotional about the game was either the Astros/Mets playoff series or Cal Ripken setting the perfect attendance mark to end all perfect attendance marks.  Probably the latter.Read More

 Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com.

Wow… nothing like an Astros playoff game to suck your scrotum into your stomach and make you lay in a fetal position all afternoon.  Dropping 2 in a row to the Braves is nothing new to the Houston nine…and unfortunately nothing new to anyone who has been following this baseball team for the last 10 years.Read More

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At 9:10 or so tonight, Roy Oswalt will throw a pitch to Marvin Bernard.  At about 9:10 tonight, as an Astros fan, I’ll be able to get back to some normalcy, or as much normalcy as pennant races usually allow.  As an American, I don’t know when that process is going to start.  I’m hoping, like a lot of people, that the baseball will allow me the release of not thinking about the victims still buried at the World Trade Center or that World War III might be around the corner.  I have my doubts that it will, but at this point I’ll take what I can get.Read More