Houston Astros fans — your voices have been heard and FanSided has released its latest ranking of sports fandoms across the world — we call it the FanSided 250 — and you’ll be surprised as to how high fans regard this franchise.
Is it poetic justice? Just six years ago, this team wallowing in the misery of an elongated rebuilding project, being told to “trust the process,” when we didn’t know what the end game would be.
The Houston Astros were fresh off their third-straight triple-digit loss season and the likelihood the team would be contending for a just a winning season — let alone a world championship — seemed vastly in jeopardy.