Alyson Footer, the Senior Director of Social Media of the Houston Astros, provides behind-the-scenes access to the wide variety of personalities that comprise the Astros family.
Hundreds of reporters from all corners of the globe are covering the World Baseball Classic, which presents an assortment of challenges for the tournament’s organizers. The main hurdle? Language barriers. I’ve never covered an Olympics, but presumably, Major League Baseball has ripped a page or two from that handbook in terms of handling the media [...]
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I always said if I could hop on a time machine and live through whatever era of Astros baseball I wanted, I’d definitely plant myself around the 1986 team. It had everything — personality, fun, a little intellect sprinkled in here and there, and, most importantly, those zany guys won 96 games. What could be [...]
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I’m usually skeptical when a player retires from baseball while he’s still producing at a high level, but in Chipper Jones‘ case, I really do believe he means it when he says he’s comfortable with his decision to step away from the game, with no desire to return. I just wonder if he’s going to [...]
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PHOENIX â Dale Murphy proudly considers himself a serial tweeter, a notion that was hammered home by one of his more than 40,000 followers with this tweet: âFollow Murph. He tweets more than a Kardashian.â And with that, Murphy (@dalemurphy3) was off and running. It wasnât always a smooth ride. In the beginning, like most [...]
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Major League Baseball implementing expanded replay in 2014 isn’t exactly new news, but every time Joe Torre addresses the situation, as he did on Tuesday, he seems to bring a new clarity to the situation. Torre, Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of baseball operations, is currently serving as Team USA’s manager in the World [...]
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Every year I casually follow Media Day the Tuesday before the Super Bowl and experience the typical combination of amusement and nausea. Super Bowl Media Day is unlike any other media event in any sport, in that it serves almost no purpose except to create a spectacle. Itâs absurd, embarrassing, outrageous â a perfect setting [...]
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This San Francisco Chronicle article piqued my interest, mainly because it raised some interesting observations about former Blue Jay/Met/Indian/Giant/Astro/Dodger Jeff Kent — a somewhat odd figure whom you could never quite figure out, even when you thought you might actually be close to cracking the code. The one thing we — reporters who covered him, [...]
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I took a slightly bold approach yesterday after the Hall of Fame announcement revealed that Craig Biggio did not get elected this year, his first on the ballot. I suggested to Astros fans that Biggio not making the Hall this year is a good thing. This was risky, obviously, given that I live in Houston, [...]
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A couple of weeks before Constellation Field in Sugar Land burst onto the scene as the venue for the most recent Roger Clemens unretirement, I took a drive down there with a buddy to watch a different Astros alum pitch. Jason Lane, who caught the final out that clinched the National League pennant in St. [...]
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OK, I’ll be the first to say it — this one doesn’t pass the smell test. Oh, sure, I believe Roger Clemens truly does want to try his hand at pitching professionally, and on a much lower scale than the big leagues, as he gives his 50-year-old arm a test against real-life hitters. But forgive [...]
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