By Michael N

Editor’s note - This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on April 23, 2000.
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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. (more…)

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

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. (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. (more…)

Editor’s note - This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com.
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.” (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. (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. (more…)

By Michael N

Editor’s note - This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on April 7, 2000.
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Editor’s note - This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com.
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… (more…)