January 31, 2013: View of Downtown Houston from the Gulf Freeway, near the former site of Buff Stadium, 1928-1961.
Over time, we all get to know the old wisdom saw up close and personal that the only thing constant in life is change – and that change is most likely just another variant of the same old constant forces of resistance that perpetually stand in the way of our realized full potential on a self-actualized basis.
Houston Baseball Translation: The more one reads of this city’s early to current efforts on the road to reaching and winning a World Series, the more we see how hard this goal is to attain. (1) A club has to have the will, intelligence, resources, and confidence to get there; (2) a club has to have the right blend of talent to become the best winning and crunch-time playing team; (3) a club has to overcome and be superior to those same aforementioned forces in the other 29 teams that also are trying to reach the same goal; and (4) it doesn’t hurt a club to have a little mad “extra-talent” spending money in the late season, plus a whole lot of luck.
Houston started its MLB journey in 1962, but did not reach its first and only World Series until 2005, the 44th season of a continuous trial. It didn’t win, but what’s scarier is the World Series “rate of arrival stat”. If it takes another 44 years to reach the next one, Houston has only two more World Series trips to look forward to in the 21st century – and each of these are not scheduled to get here until most of us current fans have already departed for the big slumber in green pastures.
Winds of rapid positive change, are you finally here? – Are was that just another grand weather streak that we got to see in Houston’s yesterday-beautiful Thursday sky?
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