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Let's talk about an Astros Hamels trade

Why not? Everybody else is.

Oh, 'tis the season, indeed! That point in the season where we think we know who the good teams are and the bad teams are. That season where a fan's fancy turns to ridiculous trade speculation.

Clinically, Astros fans have for a decade been specimens in a grand deprivation experiment being performed on a populace by a totalitarian government. And now, their light, food, desserts, cable TV, video games, soul mates, puppies, and fast cars have been returned to them. Scientists are already composing drafts of reports detailing their irrational and somewhat manic response mechanisms.