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t m c » p u l s e | d e c 2 0 1 9/JA N 2 02 0 7 Over the past 30 years, internist JAMES MUNTZ, M.D., has worked as a team physician for nearly every professional sports team in Houston, collecting championship rings from the Houston Rockets, the Houston Astros and former WNBA team the Houston Comets. A native of Tyler, Texas, Muntz attended Baylor College of Medicine in the 1970s and got his start in sports medicine in 1984 working with the Houston Gamblers of the now-defunct United States Football League. Today, he is the team physician for the Rockets, the Astros and the Houston Texans, in addition to running his own busy practice. Muntz is also a professor of internal medicine and orthopedics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Spotlight Q | What was it like spending time with the Astros during the 2019 World Series? A | The players are pretty calm. They're positive. To be down 0-2, and then to go out of town to Washington, D.C., it was incredible for them to win three in a row. Everybody was at the top of their game, and it was two really good teams. After the Game 7 loss, it's such a change in emotion. As a spectator watching it, you're feeling pretty confident. I thought people were getting ready to celebrate. When you go seven games, you realize how close you were to winning. But ultimately there was no celebration. The cham- pagne gets put back away. All the plans made for the victory, the parties—all of a sudden they're not there anymore. But we had a great season, and we'll be ready to come back. ➟