I’m not a fan of this… I would have rather them made up the games some other time at Houston than to play them at Miller Park. The Astros are a VERY good team when playing at home(much like the Cubs) and hold a 43-29 record at Minute Maid Park and have a sub .500 record on the road(37-38). Yes I realize the Astros will be the “home team” for this game… but that means little to nothing if they aren’t playing at MMP.

I don’t like it because I think it hurts the Astros chances at making the playoffs. Home field advantage is called home field advantage for a reason… it’s an advantage to play at home… and the Astros just got screwed out of a 3 game advantage on the season. It’s an advantage to not have to travel on a plane to the other side of the country to play a game… it’s an advantage to be able to sleep in your bed after the game and it’s an advantage to not have to sit on a plane for 5 hours(or however long it takes to fly from Houston to Milwaukee).

If these games didn’t mean so much to the Astros and their chances to make the playoffs, then maybe I don’t care as much… but the Astros have worked their butt’s off to be a very good team in the 2nd half of the season and have a chance at playing in the post season…

That being said… hopefully this hindrance to the Astros doesn’t prove to be too big of a issue and the Astros can go into Milwaukee and win both games against the Cubs…

They are pretty much getting their play off hopes stomped on by the Pirates. They lost another game to them tonight, (in extra innings) That puts them even further back from the Wild Card.. We’ll .. sorta.. they didn’t lose ground.. but no one thinks the Brewers are going to be the Wild Card leaders at the end of the year, do they? They can’t even win a coin toss!:p

Milwaukee is not neutral, and I am now interested in finding out Selig’s links to the profits from games at Miller. (not an accusation, just a curiosity right now…). Plus, there is a link on the chron site to a chicago tribune message board – some cubs fans are less then sympathetic to the situation, and rather full of entitlement (not all, some) but it made me more owly than the original situation. At least is is only 2 of the 3 games. And if the cubs have clinched at the end of the season, that game may not be as tricky.

I do not think the weekend has been mismanaged by Drayton – perhaps he was overly optimistic, but after Rita, a lot of people were. I also think he is now looking after the best interests of the team – which is his job.

But, one cubs fan had the right thought – good teams win where ever they play. Hopefully our boys are pissed about this and can use that energy to win tomorrow – after they travel all day! The worst part of all this could be if they decide they are victims to nature, to Selig, to the Cubs, and give up a little. Now, I don’t think they will – if they didn;t give up in June, they can’t give up now!

Would we be fighting this hard if it was a series against the Marlins played in Tampa Bay? Or if it were May? Yes, I think hypotheticals like that are unfair in a way – it’s not the Marlins, its the division leader, and its not May, its September – but someone has to be the better man, so let it be us: the better man that travels to Milwaukee and the better team that beats the cubs tomorrow.

maybe the Stros will have karma on their side. If the universe is fair, Carlos Zambrano and Jim Edmonds will just spontaneously combust, right there on the field.

…there was concern that now is not the time to be holding baseball games in Houston, and I agree. Dozens of cops work every Astros game, and they have better stuff to do right now.