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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros' improvement from baseball's worst team with 111 losses to a 70-win season this year has cost Houston furniture mogul Jim McIngvale more than $4 million. The man known in Houston as "Mattress Mack" last spring offered to reimburse the first 500 customers who spent more than $6,300 on furniture if the Astros won 63 games — matching the age McIngvale turne

The Houston Astros stink, but they don't stink nearly as much as one of their vendors.

The new owner of the Houston Astros, Jim Crane, is revealing the changes he's going to make, and some of the changes he's just thinking about, including a new name for the team.

The Houston Astros' new owner, Jim Crane, has launched a breathtaking house cleaning.  Crane's makeover of the worst team in the major leagues started at the top, with the firings of team president Tal Smith and General Manager Ed Wade, and Crane says he's just getting started.

A Houston attorney says he has found a way to keep the Houston Astros in the National League.  He says moving to the American League could violate the team's stadium lease agreement with the Harris County/Houston Sports Authority.

It's a done deal, or it will be Thursday when the Major League Baseball owners approve Drayton Mclane's sale of the Astros to a group of investors led by Houston businessman Jim Crane.

The Houston Astros are, in the words of an old Merle Haggard song, headin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell.  They're not just last in their division, and not just last in the National League.  They're last in all of baseball.

Longtime owner Drayton  McClane is getting out of the baseball business. McClane has sold the Houston Astros to a group of investors for $680 million dollars.