Watson wasn't alone in his vision of home-run baseball at Enron. And Jim Deshaies, a former pitcher who started 178 games for the Astros between 1985 and 1991, thinks the offense-friendly confines of Enron might soon start preying on the minds of pitchers. It's going to be crazy, especially for the pitchers. If you walk a guy and then give up the homer, that's when you're really going to get hammered. It's just part of the whole package, said former catcher Alan Ashby, now a radio color analyst for the Astros.
Entertainment is a big part of it.
You want people to come in and have a great time, and I think the players have an innate ability to be able to concentrate on what they're trying to do. And with the offense Enron is expected to generate on a nightly basis, that shouldn't be a problem for most players. If you can't play here, you can't play anywhere.