People will come, Jim
They'll come to Houston for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up at your stadium, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only $700 for SRO." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have, and another championship they lack.
"And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes.
And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
People will come, Jim. The one constant through all the years, Jim, has been baseball.
Houston has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.
It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.
But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game - it's a part of our past, Jim. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
Ohhhh, people will come Jim. People will most definitely come.
Life is better with a beagle