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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

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Since there were no winners in the “Take A Legend to the Enron Opener”…(and don’t think I won’t remember this, you ingrates…) sitting on my couch watching on DirectTV and surround sound and of course Shiner Bock, was the next best option…The following is a look at the inner workings and one man’s opinion of the television coverage and mad amount of hype associated with March 30th, 2000.Read More

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It’s very comforting to me to see that, shockingly enough, The Houston Astros are still the team to beat in the National League Central.
After an off-season that saw the No-Longer-In-Motion-Stars show mercy in general on the rest of the division by trading Mike Hampton to the Mets and specifically to the Chicago Cubs and the residents of Waveland Ave. by getting Carl Everett out of the National League completely, one might be led to believe that the gap had been closed between the Stros and the rest of the scrubs in the Central. If you watch enough ESPN or Fox Sports Net, you might actually come to the conclusion that the Reds have surpassed the “mud n’ blood” crew.Read More

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Until further notice, Zipper Flap will be at half-mast due to the Carl Everett/Adam Everett trade.  We here at the Flap hope this in no way had anything to do with C4 being named Zipper Flap Astro of the Year.  Just to make sure, however, the Astro of the Year for 2000 is none other than Chris Holt!!!Read More