It’s been a while since the Wall Street Journal released their list of the most hated teams in sports a couple weeks ago. Cleveland was somehow atop the list. It was a conversational topic for several days. Apparently, the news that the Astros are the 4th most hated team in the game has just filtered it’s way down to Texas, then to New England. Syndicated columnist Jeff Vrabel took exception to this finding, blaming it entirely on computers, which ironically had the fodder for this column available to him on the internet over two weeks ago.
Anywho, I thought it might be beneficial for someone outside of Texas to inform the Astros and their fans why the rest of the world might hate them.
- They play in the NL Central, along with noted villain Lou Piniella
- The potentially crippling hill in the middle of center field.
- The whole Texas thing. If you live in Texas, you probably don’t understand. Sorry.
- The insistence on continually wearing some ugly uniforms, but not ever wearing Nolan Ryan era throwbacks.
- Remember Clemens? Pettitte? The only thing worse than being the Yankees is trying to be the Yankees.
- Traffic in Houston.
- Enron
I’m sure there are many more reasons that I haven’t been able to discern. I personally don’t hate the Astros, but that’s mostly because I don’t care about them.
