With a short introduction, I am a Houston native. I've followed the A's since the early 2000's, and have followed AN since 2004 without posting ever. The current ownership of the Astros really made it easy for me to declare allegiance to the A's. The last few years in Houston have been really terrible (and I don't just mean our on field performance).

Having said that, how does the introduction of the Astros (or any team to the AL West) change things?

I'm curious to hear some ideas.