Does anyone have a thing against Houston? Can Houston catch a break?
Here at the New Low Observer, we have two passions, financial markets and baseball. As a refresher, the Houston Astros were the World Series Champions in 2017. The team was lauded for having mastered the art of Sabermetrics.
More recently, we’re finding that the art of deciphering digital data was really analog signals from a garbage can.
What struck us as most fascinating is the fact that biggest scandal in baseball was committed in a ballpark originally known as Enron Field.
Is it time to call it a curse? We don’t know. In an era of big data in baseball, it seems ironic that banging on a trash can helped define the success of the Astros in 2017. As with all sports, superstition runs deep. Which only makes us wonder about the connection between a ballpark once called Enron Field and the recent cheating scandal of the Houston Astros.