Today, I offer a mea culpa to the Houston Astros.
Roughly two months after the 2014 MLB season ended, I found it downright hilarious that the Astros had booked a Taylor Swift concert at Minute Maid Park on a date that would fall in the middle of the MLB playoffs. The tentative date for the 1989 World Tour to make its way to Houston was October 13. Many, myself included, interpreted that to mean that even the Astros were writing off their 2015 team in advance.
In case you haven’t noticed, the Astros are currently 55-45 and only a game out of first in the NL West.