Houston, you have a problem.
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Your ballclub is bad, really bad.
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The Astros, a perennial contender for much of the last decade, have fallen on hard times.
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From 1994 to 2006, Houston was one of the most competitive clubs in the National League.
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During that twelve-year run, the Astros finished lower than second-place just once, in 2000, when the club played sub-.500 baseball for the first time since Æ92.
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The club made the playoffs six times in that stretch and won the National League pennant in 2005 before falling to the Chicago White Sox in the World Series.
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As it stands, 2005 was the Astros last trip to the postseason.
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Since that magical October, the franchise has been backpedalling into obscurity in the NL Central.
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