By Steve Beitler
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 18, 2002.

The Ken Caminiti steroid flap has become yesterday’s news faster than the Astros bullpen can blow a lead, which tells us more about drugs and baseball than most of the pundits did when the story first broke.

“This could change baseball forever,” intoned Chris Rose of “The Best Damn Sports Show Period.” (more…)

By Knoxbanedoodle and Spiers for Hall of Fame
Editor’s note – This article originally appeared on AstrosConnection.com on June 17, 2002.

DAY ONE

Knoxbanedoodle and Spiers For Hall Of Fame’s Astros Farm System road trip actually begins like this: we are in Providence, Rhode Island, in Spiers’s apartment, watching Oswalt strike out the side against the Pirates in the top of the eighth. He is throwing 98 MPH gas, the game is tied at one, and in the bottom of the inning Vizcaino pokes a little two run single into left field. We win.

Things are good. We keep saying: “Oswalt,” or “Dude, Oswalt,” or occasionally just: “Dude!” (more…)