[Poll]Who is all for the AL now?

I grudgingly accepted the move.

I don't think it's "been great" given the circumstances involving the move, but it's whatever.

 

I still feel no rivalry or anything towards the teams we're playing the most but I'll get there someday. It is what it is and it ain't changing back. Still my Astros no matter who and where they're playing.

 

Will be less mitigating once the NL adopts the DH.

We need to get to a World Series before that so we can benefit from the built in advantage every AL team has over NL teams.

 

I'm 1000% for the DH move. NL needs to get with the times. Sports are for entertainment.

At the same time, we are not an AL team, so it feels weird. I miss all of our match-ups and rivalries.

 

Where is the I've learned to tolerate it option.

Once the NL adopts the DH there will be no difference betweem the leagues. Aside from St. Louis, I personally didn't feel like we had rivals in the NL. I never got up more for some opponents than others.

Having said that the manner in which we were forced to the AL will always sit with me. I don't care how many new rivalries we form, or how similar the leagues are. The move is always gonna piss me off as Selig's last f**k you to the Astros.

 

Hoping that an expansion to 32 teams happens within the next decade so we don't have to watch that nonsense known as interleague play.

 

I feel like rivalries are made in the playoffs, so we still have to wait a bit.

 

I like baseball period,whether it's traditional or not. Let's play ball

 

I am all in for those things I cannot change.

 

Still would rather be in the NL.

I was never going to stop watching because of it.

 

This is precisely how I'd describe it, but I did feel a rivalry with the Cubs too.

 

I always considered the Cards, Cubs and Braves to be rivals, and the Mets, Dodgers and Giants as just assholes I didn't like.

 

Huh? Explain.

Now that Stros are in the AL, I love interleague play.

 

Agreed... however none of those teams ever really considered the Astros as their biggest rival... which made forcing them to move easier as well.

Not that I would support the move if it came up again... but they're now in a division where none of the other teams have a real "natural" inter-league rival either.

If the Astros get a rivalry that is reciprocal (as big in Houston as it is in the city they're playing against), then that rivalry will technically be stronger than any other rivalry the franchise has ever had.

 

The move never bothered me like it did most people, so I was cool with it then and still am. I just love baseball.

As for rivalries, I hated the Cards but there isn't a single team in the NL that considered the Astros their rival. A true rivalry has to work both ways, both franchises need to hate each other. We obviously don't have that in the AL either, but at some point if us and the rangers are both really good at the same time, we could certainly develop one

 

The DH is stupid, hitting is part of the game. Second basemen are generally weaker hitting position so lets just DH for them as well. Better yet lets get with the times and have an offense and a defense.

 

The DH hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it would. I still prefer the NL due to the teams we play, rivalries we had built, and way less late west coast games.

 

Interleague will never go away. They would just go back to what they used to and not have it be every day.

 

I believe you can DH for a 2B if you want if the pitcher hits, no?

But beyond that, we don't ask hitters to pitch. Why ask pitchers to hit?