Yep, I would say that watching baseball without the mosquitoes and the oppressive summer heat near Beautiful Buffalo Bayou was a definite improvement.
The baseball was not always top notch, but there were moments: their catcher, John Bateman (IIRC)was built like an NFL nose tackle. A timeout was called one evening so that he could return to the dugout and change his pants after splitting them in a rather embarrassing play.
This grassroots movement to save the Astrodome...pftttt....Astroturf.