It's amazingly consistent, isn't it? We're within a nine-game swing every year despite hot starts and cold starts. And we've been in 5th place at this point five of the last six years. Plus, in the past eight years, we've never led the division at this point of the season and being 5 games out is the third-best position of those years. I do say that the main reason we are so close is the deficiencies of the rest of the division yet I say that knowing that only the Dodgers have a really good record right now in the NL.

"We don't do anything easy. We're the Astros." - Craig Biggio