First thing that came to mind reading this thread is the young kid (Ray from "Jerry Maguire") saying to Jerry, "D'you know my next door neighbor has three rabbits"?
Other cool info on Mathews, hit that 500th home run off hall of fame pitcher Juan Marichal and ended his career as world seres champ while only playing in 2 games during that year's playoffs.
Speaking of the ********ing Mets, Tommy Agee played for the Stros for a year, a couple of years after the '69 Amazin' Mets season. Stros had the 1st pick in the '76 draft, they took Floyd Bannister. He ended up having a solid career and all but the Astros traded him 2 years later for Craig Reynolds. Not great (other than Sciocia, nobody in that 1st round was worth a damn anyway). Bob Aspromonte owned the first Coors distributorship in Houston. Vinny Castilla's 1/3 of a season here was amazingly great.
I don't have any weird Astros factoids or anything, but I felt like saying this: Remember Tony Eusebio? Heavy set, slap hitting catcher who was the backup on our team for what felt like a solid decade? I had a weird love for Tony Eusebio even though I always felt like with his size he should have been much more of a power hitter. Also, it took me a long time to figure out that when someone said something about Subes they weren't talking about Tony, but about some bench/base coach (I think he was the catcher who warmed up the pitchers or something) who I didn't know anything about.
Stretch Suba. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/40129000/ Eusebio was a fan favorite. I remember his 20+ game hit streak, which was really incredible because he was platooning for most of it. Also, he was nearly the hero of the 1999 playoffs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZAbwvu4_o From 1999-2004, Steve Finley and Luis Gonzalez played for the Diamondbacks. In that first 3 year stretch (1999-2001), they combined for 197 home runs. Gonzalez was 31 at the beginning of that period, and Finley was 34. They also played for the Astros from 1991-1994. In the first 3 year stretch, they combined for 54 home runs.
