It wasn’t always easy, and it wasn’t at any point a foregone conclusion, but in the end, the Houston Astros ended the season where they ended last season, in first place. I know a lot of us here in fanland came into this season treating the playoffs like a birthright, but we should know that in beisbol, anything can happen, and pride goes before the fall. We’re just lucky that our collective schadenfreude didn’t come back to haunt us. Now it’s Seattle’s fanbase (and to a lesser extent, Arlington’s) that’s forced to deal with copium. There but for the grace of God.
Astros Crawfish Boil: October 2, 2023
