Reply to "Astros from National League to American league..."

EdgarFan500+ posts

This has been a pretty big story here in Seattle. Larry Stone of the Seattle Times has been all over it. I imagine it is a pretty big deal in Houston, too, where the word is fans are ****ed.

For the Mariners (and the rest of the AL West) it means the end of the advantage they've enjoyed for quite some time - only needing to beat three teams in the standings to make the playoffs!

I am definitely for realignment to equalize the divisions, but not sure this was the best plan. I would've put the Diamondbacks in the AL West instead (closer to 3 out of the four original AL West teams, lot less history in the NL than the Astros) but MLB had no leverage over the D'Backs along the lines of what they had with Crane and the Astros.

Better than doing nothing, I guess.

11/17/117:18 PM

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