Was talking more about another future Astros era having a similar run…. Maybe the 2055 Astros will see similar success, but still unlikely and maybe not in our lifetimes. The key here is this run isn’t close to being over. They’ll be the odds on favorite to represent the AL next year in the WS when the betting opens up.
Leaving out the words "by the Astros" did change your meaning earlier. I get it, and agree. I want more Astros rings...2 was necessary, 3 is historic, 4 would be legendary.
Sorry… details, details…. This is still a run that warrants notoriety in/of itself. Teams that have remained in contention consistently since 2015 are extremely few. Teams that have made 6 straight league championship series, in the era of more wild cards and upstart randomness that happens in the LDS are even fewer. Teams that are this well-positioned in terms of the perfect mix of young home-grown pitching-hitting/well-compensated stallworths and more post-season experience than every other team in baseball are singular.
Baseball is the hardest sport for the "best" team in the league to win consistently because of the game itself... any team can beat any team in a 3/5/7 game series even if the best players are stacked towards one side. The fact that this Astros era has consistently been able to avoid the random first round loss is actually the rarer of feats.
I just also want to remind everybody in here… there was a time not too long ago where the Astros had never won a post-season series. In fact this BBS came into existence at a time when the Astros had never won a post-season series. Never take a sustained run of success like this for granted. Never short-change it.
The issue is the first part of the dynasty was historic offense based, and the latter half has been pitching based. So I'm not sure how a term around hitting fits as a name for the whole entity.
[History Lesson] The Astros have been around for 60 years and most of that history was mediocrity, frustration or downright awfulness. The Stros went to their first playoff in 1980 and lost to the Mike Schmidt Phillies and then lost to the Dodgers in 1981. They lost in an epic series in 1986 to a historic Mets team losing in 16 innings at the Dome in game 6. The Killer B's were anything but killers in the post season and even in 1998 when they had Randy Johnson and a 102 win season they still lost in the first round of the Playoffs. It took until 2004 for the Astros to finally win a playoff series beating the Braves with John Smoltz on that team. An absolutely loaded Stros team headlined by Roger Clemons still lost in 7 to Cardinals. Next year they avenged that beating the Cardinals in 6 even with the infamous Pujols home run off Lidge at MMP. I think that one was as long as Yordan's last night. The Stros played the first World Series game in Texas but still were swept by the White Sox. That was the llast hurrah for the Killer B's era which until 2017 had been the greatest era in Stros history. Since 2015 there was the move from NL to AL with three 100+ loss seasons including a 111 losses in 2013. I remember seeing the Stros playing the Twins in August that year and the then Stros DH Cris Carter had as many strikeouts as the whole Twins team. The success since 2015 is truly remarkable not just in baseball history but other than the Comets no Houston team has had this run of success. Not even the Dream, Drexler with and without Barkley run was as good.
