the houston astros kangaroo jump

i like the old expressions used in baseball.
i can't think of too many off the top of my head,
but one that always stuck around was kangarooing
as in jumping from the national league to the american league
back when the leagues really hated each other
and the world series was war series.

i don't like inter league play.
i don't like any kind of watered down coffee.
i like friction
and remember the national league being a foreign country as a kid.
i remember it as a snobby place
like a christmas party i was forced to attend
at a stuffy neighbor's house
and i remember the american league as industrial giants,
as motor head city of detroit and the angling facade of right field bleachers
and bernie's beer chalet gorman thomas
and rock and roll cleveland along lake eeeeerie in that whale belly municipal stadium.
the american league always appealed to my loser preference.
it feels like it got a haircut and i don't like it.

no one hates each other anymore,
not enough anyway.
it's as if dh lost its devil like the rays did.
if you like peace and love then you're probably happy about
these contrived geographic rivalries
and the opposition laying down like lion and lamb.

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the astros are now members of the american league west
having kangarooed from the nation league central.
that makes for 6 divisions,
each with 5 teams.

the astros are the first team to switch leagues since
the milwaukee brewers did it to begin the 1998 season.
that was the first time it ever happened.
it's true.
a lot of teams relocated west,
but no team prior to the brewers had ever switched leagues.
it still smells a little like a bud selig milwaukee braves fantasy,
but the brewers weren't the first team chosen.

anyway, some medium core baseball fans are not even aware of the astros switch.
i blame that on interleague play and the astros being maybe the worst team in baseball,
but either way,
no one seems to hate anymore and so no one cares about the astros switch.

i don't know how this will alter the game in terms of league runs and wins and losses,
but there's probably a way to calculate the potential change.
i don't need a maid to do my laundry or cook me dinner.
i need a seamhead that can be beamed up on my call.
scotty!!!