Dave Lemming, we sent you down to Houston recently on a very special reporting trip that

brought you to an Astros game.

Just give me an idea of what you saw there.

As someone who spent the last 30 year shadowing athletes and tagging along behind the scenes,

I actually witnessed something inside MinuteMade Park that I've never seen before.

The plan was to meet with this subject on the mezzanine level behind home plate of MinuteMade

Park in Houston before the Astros were supposed to take the field.

And the subject you're meeting, what does he look like?

He's this little gray-haired furniture magnet, black-worn-in cowboy boots with his Astros

jersey tucked into his pants.

That look is a dangerous one.

I feel like only a select few, only an elite cadre of humans can pull that off.

I would actually argue that it's only this guy who I don't even pull it off.

He has a sort of like physical presence that I would describe as Lanky.

And he's somebody who feels like he's like he's all teeth, he's all ears, and he's

all charisma too.

I figured this was going to be like any other assignment right.

We would meet up in Chichad as we walk to our seats.

And instead, when I got inside the stadium, the subject is literally swarmed like he was

a pop star.

And I couldn't get anywhere close to him because everybody else in the stadium wanted to be

next to take a picture with, ask questions, shake his hand, everybody wanted a piece of

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