Phenomenal Smith

Arizona is closer to the rest of the AL West than the Astros are. Sure, Arizona would make sense, moving to the AL West. But then you have to move Houston to the NL West anyway. Now you're moving two teams instead of just one. Plus, Houston in the AL West gives them the games against the Rangers, so there is that bonus. Arizona has nothing like that in either divison, nor will they ever unless Vegas gets a team some day. That's not a bonus to me. I don't give a crap about the Rangers. I'm fine with moving to the NL West.

OK, but Smith didn't say anything like that. If you want to talk about moving the Brewers and also then moving another team...why not just have the one team move that makes the most sense? The Astros are in a six team division, and have no natural rivalry with any of those teams. Moving them to the four team AL West and giving them an in-state opponent in the form of the Rangers makes the most sense, I would think.As someone else wrote, there are only three rivalries in baseball.

Yeah...look at geography and get back to us on this idea. Uh...it is certainly a workable (if frightening) plan, Brewers to AL central, KC to AL west. I could certainly see folks in Houston saying, "why should we move rather than the team that only joined the NL in 1997?" This.The Astros have been in the NL since 1962 and before that the minor league Buffs were a Cardinals farm team from 1921-58.

Yeah...look at geography and get back to us on this idea.Arizona is closer to the rest of the AL West than the Astros are.

Then send the Brewers back to the AL.

If Czar Selig sends the Astros to the AL, I'm done with MLB.

Pinball machines... other than Minute Maid Park?Actually MMP has been a fairly neutral park the last few years.

There's no rivalry with the Rangers. The logical choice is a team that doesn't have a 50 year history in the NL - like Arizona or Milwaukee.

Looks like your boy Bud Selig is blackmailing Houston. REPORT: MLB WANTS ASTROS IN THE ALBaseball commissioner Bud Selig has asked prospective Houston Astros buyer Jim Crane to agree to move the team to the American League if he is approved as onwer, according to Fox 26 Sports in Houston. Major League Baseball sources told the station that the fact that Crane has yet to agree to the request has kept him from being approved as owner. Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/129436763.html#ixzz1XNk8kYUh

Bud Selig decided to move the game to Milwaukee. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Awesome news. Might have one on my birthday.

A 15 inning game can be played in less time than it takes to go through mgl's analysis of bunting.

I don't see the Astros doing much in the off-season. By finishing 86-75 they (or at least Drayton McLane) think that they are a good team already. It's silly, but there it is. They might have made a play for Sheets since he's kinda a local guy, but his injury has presumably rendered them uninterested.

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Failures to get bunts down are simply excused as bad execution, but all strategies have to factor in the general probability of such failures.