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It was ridiculous for anybody who knew anything about sports.....................be careful what you post about the drayton! The alphabet T-Ball boys think drayton was a great owner! (35 just agrees with anything they post) But to be fair being a Houston pro sports fan it is hard to identify a "good" owner because they've never had one..............organizations like the Rangers and Spurs continue to be their "daddy"!

So what's your beef with the current ownership? That they moved the team to the AL? Your were educated on how that went down on the last Astros thread, so what else? How would you like the current front office to operate differently?

Again, it sucks for Astros fans wanting something to watch this season and next, but every single move they make should be around getting the farm system back up and running.

the best thing the rangers could ever do is fire that ignorant, coke sniffing manager...he's a joke

And here's this guy.

Yeah, nothing to see here. Really just more of the same vapor.

League change wasn't Crane's choice or preference. Was wither switch at a discount or don't get the team.

He didn't attempt to change the name, he merely did research and considered a change, which any smart businessman would do.

The manager today likely won't be the manager when the team is competitive again, so who cares? Maybe Porter does a great job and the team is competitive soon or maybe he's the stop gap before Biggio or Ausmus get the call. Either way, why would you care what happened to the last manager of the worst team in the league?

The old front office was a washed up, worn out, out of date, not in touch with reality group of blue hairs. They all needed to go, even the ones who had been there the longest.

I sincerely hope you're either younger than age 18 or older than age 70. Otherwise, your takes on the matter couldn't be any less relevant.

Seeing these quoted posts from austinr just reminds me of how great the ignore feature is on this site, and how I wish some of you guys wouldn't quote consistent assbaggery in responses. The notion that the AL move is on Crane speaks to simple ignorance, but the claim that the new ownership is already worse than everyone in professional sports other than the Cowboys points to profound stupidity. Just let the guy shout into the ether on nonsense like that.

Baseball threads are much more readable when austinr, Bruce7, and NCypress are all on ignore.

Don't get flattered Sin. We all hate you.

Heh heh....

The Washington Nationals approach. . Be the worst in baseball for three years and stock-pile #1 picks. It can work. Moving the Astro's AAA franchise to the Woodlands makes sense as well. I don't follow the Astro's closely enough to know how close they actually are. Bill James saying they will win 95 games in five years is pure sillyness though. They are just as likely to still be a .500 team at best. There are as many high first round busts in baseball as their are hits. My personal hope is that the Astro's and Rangers are battling for the A.L. championship yearly starting in 2015. Truly a win/win. Unfortunately, even with the massive spending mistakes that the Angels have made with Pujols and Hamilton, they have so much money that they can survive and still be a factor. The new deals that the Angels and Dodgers have signed put them close to Yankee territory. They can afford a salary of $160-180 mil. The Rangers are capped at $120-130. I don't know the Astro's money, but I suspect they are in Ranger territory best case.

The Angels have a good starting staff wrapped up for the next four years. They will sign Trout to a six year deal for less than $15 million a year. That's one of the top five players in the league. I hate all things L.A., so I wish they would go away; but they aren't.

It would make more sense to move the AAA team to Corpus and let the Skeeters become the AA team. Another professional team in the Houston area would saturate the market I think.

This season will be known as the Rodon draft.

I'm going to be serious for a brief moment, then get silly. This is just my opionion, so don't take any off it seriously.

I grew up in Corpus. I don't think its large enough to support a AAA club. It has a population of around 300K wet-backs and Bierce. I'm assuming that Bierce isn't a wet. I guess if you include all of the surrounding counties, it goes up to 400K. I think the over-whelming majority of AAA franchises are in cities with 750K plus population bases. OKC has a population base of 1.3 million for comparison. Round Rock has 1.5 million. Maybe the fracking explosion in south Texas has caused a population and money boom; but the Corpus I remember is a marginal AAA franchise. .

Houston has a trillion people the last time I checked. More people than all of China combined. There are at least a billion people living in the Woodlands-Huntsville corridor; which with Houston traffic is a long day's drive away from downtown Houston during rush hour, when most games are played. I think a AAA team in that wealthy corridor will flourish without impacting the downtown stadium's draw. The Ranger's Frisco AA franchise is remarkably successful without impacting the big league team. I think it actually builds interest with people watching the minor leagues moving up the franchise. But I could be wrong.

The Rangers scored the plum AAA franchise when they had Nolan move the Round Rock franchise to be their AAA club. The only other Texas city which can support a AAA franchise is San Antonio. My perspective, if you want to move the OKC franchise to Texas and don't want it in Houston, keep the AA franchise where it is and try to convince San Antonio to build you a new stadium in the north side of the city.