Sure Footer, Fallas, McTaggart and Levine provide plenty of Spring Training coverage from Kissimmee, but if you want to hear about the real happenings – SnS style – the buck stops with Chuck. Chuck is a long-time SnS’er and has been an Astros Spring Training season ticket holder for the past four years. This year we’ve conned and cajoled him into periodically writing about his Spring Training observations for us here at TRWD. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
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Chuck, Live from Kissimmee (pt 3)
On March - 9 - 2010
Chuck, Live from Kissimmee (pt. 2)
On March - 8 - 2010
Sure Footer, Fallas, McTaggart and Levine provide plenty of Spring Training coverage from Kissimmee, but if you want to hear about the real happenings – SnS style – the buck stops with Chuck. Chuck is a long-time SnS’er and has been an Astros Spring Training season ticket holder for the past four years. This year we’ve conned and cajoled him into periodically writing about his Spring Training observations for us here at TRWD. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
Chuck, Live from Kissimmee (pt. 1)
On March - 6 - 2010
Sure Footer, Fallas, McTaggart and Levine provide plenty of Spring Training coverage from Kissimmee, but if you want to hear about the real happenings – SnS style – the buck stops with Chuck. Chuck is a long-time SnS’er and has been an Astros Spring Training season ticket holder for the past four years. This year we’ve conned and cajoled him into periodically writing about his Spring Training observations for us here at TRWD. Enjoy!
Glad You Asked! Vol. 1, Entry 3.
On October - 15 - 2009
Is there a correlation between Leadership and Management in sports/baseball? Is it important to be a leader as a manager and vice versa? Are we saying the same thing when we say “leadership” and “management”?
What is left to say?
On August - 24 - 2009
Despite winning their last two home series and going 4-2 over the last week, the Astros woke up this morning 10 games behind the Cardinals, in third place in the division with 38 games left in the season.
July SnS Spike and Star Award Winners
On August - 4 - 2009
July is the month of All-Stars, pennant chasing teams making the start of their push and of course the MLB trading deadline. July is also the month where you expect some players to step up for a team if any hopes for post season glory is to be realized. The Houston Astros were no different than any of the other Wild Card and NL Central contenders, all 28 of them, in that they got some very good performances from some players and thus the hunt was on and fans were getting excited. For the July Spike Award, the candidates were Lance Berkman, Alberto Arias, Jeff Keppinger and Aaron Boone. For the July Star Award, the candidates were Michael Bourn, Miguel Tejada, Carlos Lee, Roy Oswalt and Wandy Rodriquez. This was an interesting vote and the winners are:
