Houston Sports
My friend Dave is a big Bill Simmons fan, and always alerts me to Houston references (because I never remember to read Simmons on my own).
This is great stuff:
To the up-and-coming Texans, a potential wildcard pick for me if Dom Capers wasn't prominently involved. Quick feel-good story: Back in December, 2001, I was covering the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl in Houston (don't ask), which took place the same week when the expansion Texans signed their first handful of free agents. I remember driving on one of the 78 highways in Houston, listening to sports radio as the hosts breathlessly analyzed each signing -- each of whom had roughly a 0.00007-percent chance of making the team -- and thinking to myself, "Man, this city REALLY needed its football team back." Seems like yesterday. Now they have a decent team.
Big year for Houston, between the Super Bowl, the resurgent Astros, Clemens's return, T-Mac and Yao, the All-Star Game, a potential playoff team with the Texans, and the 7,300 Light Rail accidents. And now the Rockets have traded for Dikembe Mutombo, which could lead to the first-ever situation where Yao's translator needs his own translator to figure out what Dikembe is saying. Has any team ever had two translators before? I'm telling you, it's the Year of Houston.
Heh. Good stuff, especially the bolded part. I wouldn't have posted the Astros' reference for fear of jinxing the streak, but it ended earlier.
So now I can comment on the Astros. I have to say, I'd given 'em up for dead, and was ready to ship Jeff Bagwell to the AL. I'm glad he and they have proven me wrong, and made a race of things. I think they underperformed for much of the season, but this streak has been fun, and they're in the middle of things in September. That's all you can ask for. Kudos to them for not giving up on the season when many of us had.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/09/04 20:40 | Sports | Technorati
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Agreed vis-a-vis the Astros. But they're not going to catch the Marlins, who are better. Better pitching top to bottom, they can manufacture runs, hit for pwoer, have speed, play better defense. They're a better team.
Posted by TP @ 10:07 on 09/10/04
I think Simmons has the intelligence of what a bird just deposited on my car. Still, anyone who plays http://www.whatifsports.com can't be all bad
Posted by Gary C. @ 17:17 on 09/10/04
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