Astros first baseman Lance Berkman is open to waiving his no-trade clause if the team asks him to. "I'm not going to back away from what I said because I still feel that way," he said Thursday after telling the Houston Chronicle as much on Wednesday. "If we're 20-70 and they say, 'Hey, we've got a trade for a bunch of hot prospects and you're going to go compete for a world championship,' I would definitely consider it." Berkman has spent his entire career in Houston. "I love it here," he said. "This is my home. I'm a Texan. It would be tough to have to go somewhere else, but by the same token if it was the right set of circumstances -- which let me reiterate that we're nowhere close to right now -- if it came to that and they came to me and said, 'Hey, would you be open to this or that?' I'd be open."