Astros fans still bitter over NL switch

[redbird89]

When she was a teenager in the early 1960s, Mickey Marvins would go with her mother to Houston’s Colt Stadium to watch the Colt .45s.

“I think Wednesday night was Ladies’ Night,” she recalls. “We’d go sit out in the heat and humidity and mosquitoes and watch baseball.”

Marvins, 66, is an Astros fan to her core. She rooted for the Houston Buffaloes’ minor league team before the city’s National League expansion franchise was born in 1962, and remembers going to games at the brand-new Astrodome in 1965, when the team changed its name from the Colt .45s.

Nothing will ever stop her from cheering for her Astros.

Yet from the moment she learned Houston would become a member of the American League West this season, Marvins was steamed.

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I hate the AL style of play, so I understand why those fans are upset. The Astros kind of got screwed.

[Milnertime]

I don't understand people being upset about this. It's not like the Astros were relegated to AAA or anything. Not liking the DH is understandable but if I were an Astros fan I'd be more pissed that the team is terrible at baseball and probably won't be any good for a while.

Nobody got screwed. At least Houston still has a team. The case could be made that moving the team to another city would have been the right way to go.

[Skippy15]

I'm not a supporter of moving any team till the Rays are relocated.

That is a top notch ran organization and that city doesn't deserve it, even when they've had really great teams their attendance sucks ***. Last year they had a really, really good team and got no support, it's pathetic.

[Jeffy25]

I don't understand people being upset about this. It's not like the Astros were relegated to AAA or anything. Not liking the DH is understandable but if I were an Astros fan I'd be more pissed that the team is terrible at baseball and probably won't be any good for a while.

Nobody got screwed. At least Houston still has a team. The case could be made that moving the team to another city would have been the right way to go.

I disagree. Houston is a great baseball market that can support a huge payroll.

I can understand not liking the DH, but I also wouldn't like being moved. I still felt that the Brewers should have been moved back, but they wouldn't fit in the West (which I guess you could move the Royals to the West, but then you are affecting two teams).

It worked to move them, and their future is bright. I wouldn't be too upset if I was an Astros fan.

[Jeffy25]

I'm not a supporter of moving any team till the Rays are relocated.

That is a top notch ran organization and that city doesn't deserve it, even when they've had really great teams their attendance sucks ***. Last year they had a really, really good team and got no support, it's pathetic.

They need to actually be in Tampa, not in St. Pete and half an hour from anybody.

[Skippy15]

It would help them but I don't think it would help them significantly enough to make their case they're deserving of the team.

They're such a new franchise and Were so bad for awhile that they never generated a fan base also Florida has a huge diversity of people from other places because of people retiring to Florida. Baseball in Florida isn't really doing great at all. Marlins are a horrid mess and rays aren't any better as far as support