Fancy Store-Bought Dirt

just rename them the Houston Babies

As reported by John Perrotto on Baseball Prospectus:
The [Houston] Astros are making a fashion statement in the final days of the season as a sign of protest. They're wearing red T-shirts under their jerseys with a caricature of Commissioner Bud Selig on the front and the inscription "Bud killed us." On the back are the words "We survived Hurricane Ike."

"It's just not right what happened," said pitcher Brandon Backe, the Astros' player representative to the Major League Baseball Players Association, and also a native of Galveston, Texas, which was devastated by the hurricane. [...] "To make us have to leave our homes so soon after a major disaster struck showed no compassion whatsoever. All of my family and friends were affected by the storm. Some of the people closest to me are homeless because their houses are gone. It was really a flip of the coin whether I was going to get on that plane and go to Chicago. I knew it was the right thing to do to go with the team but it was hard to leave, one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life. I don't think anybody's heart was in those games in Milwaukee. Heck, we got one hit in two games. What does that tell you?"

I know exactly what it tells me, though that's not necessarily the same thing it tells him. If this isn't sore losing personified, I don't know what is.

(For what it's worth: thanks to WGN I grew up a Cub fan, especially the 1989 team. At some point the Tribune Company's blatant lack of commitment to winning (why should they have cared? win or lose the team was a cash cow) left me indifferent to the Cubs, though obviously living in Boston and then near Oakland also had a lot to do with it.)