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Old 11-17-2011, 02:55 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by Big Vito 22 View Post
Pretty disgusting that MLB outright forced the Astros to change leagues or else the sale wouldn't get approved. There is a lot of disappointment in Houston now - a lifelong NL team having to switch.

Can't say I blame them. I'd be crushed if my team had to start playing boring AL baseball.
I thought it was more of if the new owner accepts then he gets a $70 million discount and the plans to have all the changes done by 2013 would still be in effect. If he said no, I'd assume the new CBA would have been changed as a result.

A lot of the resentment also seems split between leaving the NL and having been a mistake to place them in the NL to begin with due to "wasting" all those years of never having a Rangers-Astros local rivalry. Although a lot of blame should be on Selig for moving his Brewers to the NL instead of moving the Astros to the AL when realignment was needed.
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