The confetti has settled and stuck to the floor, but that doesn’t mean the party is still going, even with the sounds of horns and drums still ringing in one’s ear from the week before. No, that’s over and it’s time to get to work because that’s what Hector Herrera was brought in to do. Houston backs winners and even though the parties were fun, without returning to a winning culture, that soiree may be long forgotten.
Herrera arrived in Houston last week and there has been nonstop fanfare around his arrival. There were fans greeting him at the airport, the team rented out an event center to host an extravagant party, he came out to the mural the team had commissioned, and he was introduced at Sunday’s match, complete with dimmed lights and a hype video.