Now
“It’s always been a place that I cherished wherever I went, whether it was Colorado or New York,” Hampton said. “This place always held a special place in my heart.”
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“By no means is this an indictment of the Houston Astros, the city or the front office,” said the pitcher’s agent, Mark Rogers. “It’s about the curiosity of a 27-year-old wanting to know what is out there in the rest of baseball. Realistically, who among us if given overwhelming options about their future wouldn’t at least be curious about it?”
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“Basically for Mike it came down to one issue, and that’s the uncertainty surrounding several members of the prospective 2001 team,” said Rodgers,
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Is there anything you tend to crave from home, (Homosassa, FL) stuff that you can’t get in places like Houston, …?
“They don’t know what really fresh seafood is like. They’ll tell you it’s fresh, but I can tell if it really is because I’ve been eating fresh seafood for so long.”
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