Ed Grinnell was chewing the fat with Virginia Blalock about 
 realign? on 27 Aug 97  07:21:
 
 VB>  isn't as radical as some of the proposals I have been hearing. Of
 VB>  course I also want my Astros to stay in the National League.
 EG> Actually, the one realignment idea that does work would mean moving
 EG> Houston to the AL West, where they can build something with Texas. 
 NO! :) The problem with a lot of this relaignment is time. If we were
 in the AL or NL west, that would mean lots of west coast games with
 the unbalanced schedule that is bound to take effect. That has been a
 factor in all of the re-alignment talk.
... Go Astros!
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