Astros fans can look back on one date if their postseason hopes go up in flames: July 27th, 2015, the day the music tried…to accommodate baseball. The Astros, one of the better stories of the season, announced earlier today that Taylor Swift's concert originally schedule for Tuesday, October 13, 2015 was being moved back a month to September 9th to avoid any potential conflict with postseason games.The Astros are currently one game out of first place in the AL West and hold a two-game lead in the Wild Card, so chances are looking pretty good for a postseason appearance. At least, chances were looking pretty good until they went and courted disaster. Sure, it's practical and probably smart to plan ahead, but this isn't the real world. This is sports. This is baseball. Jinxes are real in baseball—as real as the RBI—which is why you are prohibited from talking about a perfect game until there are two outs in the ninth inning without the implied, unwritten consent of Major League Baseball. Even then you should really just sort of allude to it with plenty of room for deniability.From the FAQ section of the Astros press release:
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Alliterative tongue-twisters will get you exactly nowhere—nowhere!—when you've done the equivalent of mentioning a perfect game in the sixth inning, Astros. There could be any number of reasons for an Astros collapse: injuries, poorly-timed slumps, other teams catching fire, you name it. Don't fool yourselves, though. These aren't causes, they are symptoms. The Astros have been soaring to a record of 55-45 on wings of feathers and wax, but now they've flown too high. It can only end in disaster.Why are you changing the date of the concert?
As the Astros proactively prepare for potential postseason play, we are committed to ensuring Taylor Swift fans can experience this concert at Minute Maid Park, with as much notice as possible.