I can't imagine they would do that - it seems unfair to the Rangers fans who've already bought tickets/etc. It's not the Rangers' fault the Astros games have to be moved this week.
Of course it is a bigger sample size - it's also irrelevant to the point you were trying to make that the bullpen was *currently* preventing the team from getting on a roll. If you didn't want to argue that, you shouldn't have made that false claim, and then I wouldn't have responded, and you could have gone on your merry way complaining about the bullpen for the season.
Too bad we don't play tomorrow. It's nice to have the game to look forward to/distract. I imagine tomorrow will involve a lot of boredom at home again.
This is going to sound bad, and I don't mean it in a negative way, but the problem is Houston-centric. It's the Astros' stadium and facility that is unusable and has to be accounted for. It's not a good situation all-around, but this has happened numerous times in various sports where a team is displaced for one reason or another. The leagues accommodate them as best as possible - but at no point does the league then try to balance out the issue by negatively impacting other teams or their fans later on. The situation is an act-of-God scenario and leagues do what they can to mitigate them - but fairness is not the top priority, and they aren't going to inconvenience more teams/fans/games/schedules than is necessary to account for the immediate problem. Leagues don't even do this for bigger homefield issues, let alone 3 regular season baseball games in a 162 game schedule. As an example, last year, the LSU @ Florida college football game had to be postponed for a hurricane, and it was rescheduled to be played in Baton Rouge later in the season even though they could have still played it in Florida had they wished to - but LSU didn't want to do that because they had a tough end-of-year schedule where they'd have to fit it in and didn't want a road game in late November. Ultimately, it's the team where the problem originates that gets the short end of the stick.
I imagine they will push one game back to the end of the year, hoping the Astros and Rangers simply won't need to play it. I highly doubt they would even consider "swapping" home series, that would really screw over Ranger fans. With a few weeks notice maybe, but not days. But at this point playing 2 games in Arlington seems unavoidable. We are simply in no shape to host a sporting event so playing them here is out of the question for the next 3 days. We may be able to get in a doubleheader Thursday, but there no guarantee that will be possible at this point, and if they were to be unable to play that double header it would create a scheduling nightmare. The teams have 2 mutual off days. One comes with us on a west coast road trip, with a doubleheader already scheduled 2 days later. The other comes with the Rangers in the middle of a west coast trip. Asking either team to fly back to Texas, play a twin bill, then fly back to California simply isn't fair. At this point given we are in get ready mode, not every win counts mode, we don't want a cluttered schedule heading down the stretch. As aggravating as it will be playing 2 "home games" in Arlington, it makes sense. Unlike that bulls**t that Selig pulled making us fly game day to play at a "neutral site" a few miles away. If I were making the call, I would play Tuesday and Wednesday in Arlington, and play Thursday in Houston if possible. If not, push it to the end of the year.
This would be an awesome solution and would generate some good will with a minor league team & fan base.
Sorry, I didn't mean it from the Astros' perspective - but just as an MLB solution. I assume the Fresno franchise will still exist and be someone else's affiliate?
