barzilla
06-30-2004, 12:09 AM
I remember vividly thinking as a boy that Glenn Davis and Bill Doran were the best that there ever was. I was convinced that Doran was robbed of several Gold Gloves because of the annual award given to Ryne Sandberg (I still think his name was engraved before the season even began) and that Glenn Davis was the best power hitter in the game. I also remember a vivid interview with Doran after he set the club record for home runs by a second basmen. He said that someday some kid would come along to break his record. I thought that was odd coming from someone in his prime but a few years later he and Davis were washed up.
It was a sad day when I realized that both of them were old. It meant that a part of me was getting older too. Now, I fastforward to 2004 and a game against the Chicago Cubs. It's a game like any other and a game Astros fans have seen before. In an important game the other team made more plays than we did. Few of y'all know this, but I was a member of the Astros groundscrew in 1990 and 1991. I worked about twenty games a season and got the see the development of Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, and Luis Gonzalez first hand. They were the heroes of my adolescence and early adulthood. Tonight more than any other night it became painfully obvious that Biggio and Bagwell are old. It's really sad in a lot of ways. I feel like I'm getting old but I'm sure othes will come along and be the next generations of heroes. Biggio and Bagwell have been legitimate heroes in this town and they deserve to exit their own way, but tonight's game was just another painful reminder that they are near the end.
It was a sad day when I realized that both of them were old. It meant that a part of me was getting older too. Now, I fastforward to 2004 and a game against the Chicago Cubs. It's a game like any other and a game Astros fans have seen before. In an important game the other team made more plays than we did. Few of y'all know this, but I was a member of the Astros groundscrew in 1990 and 1991. I worked about twenty games a season and got the see the development of Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, and Luis Gonzalez first hand. They were the heroes of my adolescence and early adulthood. Tonight more than any other night it became painfully obvious that Biggio and Bagwell are old. It's really sad in a lot of ways. I feel like I'm getting old but I'm sure othes will come along and be the next generations of heroes. Biggio and Bagwell have been legitimate heroes in this town and they deserve to exit their own way, but tonight's game was just another painful reminder that they are near the end.