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

By Spider Pellini
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on April 12, 2000.

Ok, so I stole the old Astros marketing slogan. Sumbitch just fits is all. Now I ain’t saying there’s not a lot to like about Mr. Dierker. All in all, he’s done a pretty fair country job. Especially handling them pitchers, now that’s a job would try the patience of a Saint. Pitchers just ain’t the same in the head as regular folks but they’re sorta like women, no matter how big a pain in the old keester they are you got to have ’em around. Read More

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

The First Five Games Played At Enron Field At Union Station

When originally conceived, I planned to write some sappy intro to this write-up on my experiences at the EFUS, but I decided that it was more in line with the BFT style to just get straight to the point. So that’s what I’m going to do.Read More

By Robert Snyder
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on March 23, 2000.

Since late 1997 when construction of Enron Field started I have avidly followed its progress. In my relatively short lifetime I have lived in Houston all of my life and have never been a witness to a new stadium being built. Even then the thought of seeing a new stadium go up gave me a never-before felt excitement. Throughout my lifetime I have seen a variety of baseball stadiums. In order of attendance and first year there is parentheses: the Astrodome (’84), Veterans Stadium (’87), Wrigley Field (’87), old Comiskey Park (’88), Busch Stadium (’89), new Comiskey (’90, and its horribly slanted upper deck), Riverside Stadium in Harrisburg, PA- Home of the AA Senators (’92), and single A, Kane County Ballpark- in Kane County, Illinois (’99- West of Chicagoland- in a location like Plano, or The Woodlands in comparison to their respective metropolitan areas). These stadiums have given me a background of sorts when comparing ballparks.Read More