Yeah, that was true in 1966 too when I used to go to the games in the Dome. They had some good talent like Joe Morgan and Rusty Staub--both traded away.
Comments on the traffic and heat here take me back to that time. The traffic wasn't quite so bad then but the heat was horrific. You hustled from one air conditioned setting to another. Weekends in Galveston helped.
One thing not mentioned, rats. Saw one outside a downtown bar that could have passed for a possum.