Baseball is Boring: Astros-Diamondbacks Live Blog

Filed under: Houston, Phoenix, Astros, Diamondbacks, NL Central, NL West, MLB Live Blogging

Baseball is America's pastime, but had our forefathers enjoyed the modern conveniences of clocks, ball pumps, or haste, this pastime may well have been basketball or football. Instead, they had wood, leather, and a rudderless disposition. Baseball is Boring is a series of live blogs for folks who need irony and self-awareness to get through a game.Is this happening? Do the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team I spent the whole offseason crapping on, really possess the best record in baseball? Are they really tops in the National League in terms of runs scored and runs allowed? Yes, they reached the playoffs last year, but they also allowed more runs than they scored, which led me to chalk them up as a bunch of lucky, timely-hitting herbs. I'm starting to think that the Diamondbacks' records and statistics have been cooked up by the scorekeepers and the media as part of a grand conspiracy. As such, I will be live blogging tonight's Diamondbacks-Astros game in an effort to get to the truth. more...