We are Getting Closer...Here is How You Can Be

Over the last couple of years we have gone from the mis-named "Email the Booth"  (you were actually emailing me and I rarely sat in the booth) to the use of Twitter and Facebook as methods to connect fans to game telecasts on Fox Sports Houston. You can still reach us through the website.  Your message will go to one of the email addresses I check regularly.

With the 2011 season less than a month away let me suggest that fans consider going "back to the future" for ease of use connecting to me and indirectly to both Bill Brown and Jim Deshaies.  I have two email addresses for you to consider.  This is especially important if you want to ultimately reach BB or JD.  Emails can be FORWARDED.  Facebook or Twitter entries are trickier and it is highly unlikely either BB or JD will be checking either location during games. 

Now, I will be returning to a mostly sideline commentator spot both home and road in 2011.  We have not done this since 2008.  Interesting comments from fans may be incorporated into games occasionally.  But I need to get them either on email or Twitter.  Facebook is too cluttered to wade through during games.

The addresses to use starting now are:  foxsportshouston@yahoo.com  or greglucas@hotmail.com.  The latter address will ONLY be seen by me.  The first address MAY been seen by others with Fox Sports Houston.  These addresses are essentially reserved for baseball/sports communication.  Do not ignore the importance of good subject lines in gaining attention.

Obviously we want fans to continue supporting and reading the entries on the http://www.foxsportshouston.com/ web site and checking in on the Facebook and Twitter sites.  I will continue to update game info on Twitter, but may cut back from every half inning to when runs are scored and/or more spaced out updates.  I am hoping a return to heavy email communication will make that necessary.  That is where the fans and me (and by extention the entire telecast) really connect.

I started the fan connection through email in 2000.  Of all the methods we have used it has been by far the best.  This season we hope to revive it back to what it once was.

One last note.  Some of you have been nervous because the Astros schedule on their website lists all games on MLB.TV and has no mention of local telecasts.  That is because the breakdown between FSH and Ch20 games has not yet been announced.  Suffice it to say that all Astro games will be on one or the other for Houston fans.  The Channel 20 telecasts may not always hit all markets outside Houston, but it many cases, as has been in the past will find a spot on FSN auxiliary cable or satellite channels.  Please check your local listings.

I will start checking the above mentioned email addresses daily starting now...and far more frequently once the season begins.