I Love Colorado Rockies

(background - I love baseball, and have done for a decade since late-night baseball on UK TV helped me through a tough patch in my life and, pavlov-style, it makes me really happy to this day. However, I haven't been able to pick a team to support until this year, when the mlb.com and their handy gameday graphic thing enabled me to follow the games. Since then, I've been watching most days, and letting instinct pick a team for me. And ta da, it picked the Rockies. Though my heart lies with the New Britain Rock Cats, the only team I've ever seen play (and had a fantastic time, in no small part thanks to the delicious David R4pos4 - Hi Dave!))

GREAT ROCKIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY

CHAPTER ONE: Neifi Perez
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/neifi_perez_autograph.jpg

Neifi Neftali Perez holds the single season team records in games played (162), plate appearances (732), at-bats (690), and highest AB/GIDP ratio (172.5).

The beginning of a fairy-tail career that was.
At what point did the team have their mass conversion to devout christianity?

Wish asking this team to make up 4.5 games in the next two weeks wasn't too much to ask. Totally fun team to watch, even if it wouldn't surprise me if they dragged out Pruss1an Blu3 to sing the national anthem some day; my secret fundie guilty pleasure of 2007 for sure.

wow.

Can we please contract the Colorado Rockies (and maybe also the Arizona Diamondbacks)? Ugh.

How many non-Col fans know that Brad Hawpe has 111 RBI?

Looks like I made a fun choice, huh.

Last night I stayed up to watch the first three innings on MLB TV (which was free? That's not usual, right?), and went from happiness to despair after Gonzalez's grand slam. I actually had nightmares all night about the final score coming through, always with the Padres winning, and when I got up this morning I put off checking the result until I was mentally strong enough to accept defeat. But fuck me, what an ending to the season. I love baseball.

Well done, Mark.

Wish asking this team to make up 4.5 games in the next two weeks wasn't too much to ask.

Monday, September 17, 2007

!!!

But fuck me, what an ending to the season

I think I was a little bit previous.

Sarah calls the Rockies my special unicorn because it gives me such pure happiness.

It's hard not to like this team at this point!

Thom (Wisconsin): Are the Rockies the most underrated team in baseball history?

Keith Law: (7:23 PM ET ) I think they're fast becoming the most overrated team in baseball history.

Craig (Seattle): How are the Rockies becoming over-rated?

Keith Law: (7:25 PM ET ) Look at the media's treatment of them - bordering on canonization. They're a good team, but they won 90 games in the lesser league, and they've got some big flaws. I think the coverage around them has gone from completely ignoring them a month ago to fawning all over them like they're the '39 Yankees.

I've yet read, hear, or see anything about the Rockies during the last month that HAS NOT been 100% based on the run they've made.

"THE LESSER LEAGUE..." dun-dun-dun.

(OK OK just remembered that I haven't been doing much listening to the broadcasts, but...)

yeah, the TV guys are gee-whizzing them. ie, it's a good HOT team ("miracle," if you will) on a roll, not a great one.

I don't think they're overperforming that much. They absolutely should beat those mediocre Diamondbacks/Phillies teams. They've won a bunch of games in a row, but I like their talent overall more than anyone in the NL other than the Mets. And they might get Aaron Cook back, which should help matters.

Meanwhile, they should be able to afford a few free agents this winter. Maybe a veteran starting pitcher (Schilling?)?

Isn't a team that goes 20-1 overperforming by definition?!? Unless you think they should've won 150 this year?

Neyer pointed out that most teams that improve greatly in one year should be expected to fall back a bit the following season, ie, the smart bet wd be 85-88 wins in '08.

I don't see the current Schilling being much help...

no aidsy posts non-schocker

Isn't a team that goes 20-1 overperforming by definition?!? Unless you think they should've won 150 this year?

I mean that I don't think they're overperforming in terms of the baseball they're playing. Nobody on the team has taken a 2006 Jeff Weaver-ish leap from their regular production (except maybe Torrealba and Seth Smith, I guess). I think they're a legitimate 90+ win team, and the fact that they got 12 of those wins when they did is mostly irrelevant.

I would have liked to see them play a healthy Mets/Phillies team in the NLCS as a truer test of their abilities.

3 out of 5 not much of a 'true test' compared to 162

Since 1900, only three other teams have won 20 of 21 games after Sept. 1, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The last NL team to do it at any point of the season was the 1936 New York Giants.

...The Rockies joined Cincinnati's Big Red Machine of 1976 as the only teams to open the playoffs with seven consecutive victories. The Reds swept their seven postseason games en route to their second consecutive World Series title.

"Nobody in here is comparing us with that," said Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, with a laugh that sounds a little nervous. "I think that's taking it a little far right there."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/rockies/2007-10-16-rockies-streak_N.htm

3 out of 5 not much of a 'true test' compared to 162

I meant that a healthy Mets/Phillies team is a truer test than the Diamondbacks, not a truer test than the regular season. Also, the NLCS is 7 games.

no aidsy posts non-schocker

-- sanskrit, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:02 (Yesterday) Link

i didnt notice the thread, DOUCHESKRIT~

Notice how Morbz never quotes BP shit that doesn't support his already-existing opinions? HMMMM

lol, you mean never noticed the team

why the hell wd I quote anything else?

lolz

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/wires/10/22/2010.ap.bbo.rockies.series.tickets.4th.ld.writethru.0747/

11th in the NL in attendance this year, the computers were understandably rusty.

Really, what they showed in the postseason is that you can "make a run" at the trophy with a tactically clueless manager.

"Humid baseball theory a bit wet

Physicists show humidors fail to alter ball aerodynamics."

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071207/full/news.2007.362.html

I don't want to hear anymore about that fucking humidor until March.

How about that fucking humidor?

Not much of a start. Matt Holliday can't actually hit a ball right now and it feels like everyone else has lost confidence because of it (old stagers like Helton excepted). Come on lads.

still waiting for holliday to touch first base /fantasytears

Tony Pena is in a JAM

From joy to misery to joy....

...to misery :(

c'mon c'mon c'mon.......

Pop Roxx quiz for Mark C:

What is the nickname for the baseball team that current Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Trevor Tulowitzki played on in college?

(No helping)

UNofficial nickname that is

Haha is this to prove I'm not a real fan? I could tell you that without having to answer a quiz :)

(I have no idea. Though technically he's not the current Rockies shortstop as he was dropped for last night's thrashing of the despicable Diamondbacks)

It is to encourage independent study and research.

does everyone else hear this thread title as 'we love rap music' from that chris brown jam??

I have to listen to that. It would have been fun if Mark C had written in this lettering

Dirtbags.

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1803807/2/istockphoto_1803807_gold_star_2.jpg!!!!

tulowitzki out for at least 6 weeks, maybe 5 months, who knows?

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjLS_9IIthz4Gglca6VbmYIRvLYF?slug=ap-rockies-tulowitzki&prov=ap&type=lgns

Was he carrying a big carcass down a flight of stairs or something?

And the Rockies could be paying him a service time adjusted league minimum, but they chose not too. Ohwell!

the dude is a total coors mirage anyway imo, probably closer to adam everett at sea level than cal ripken jr

^^^ give him more than a year and a month before tainting him as nu-Barmes

easy y'all, i believe TT led MLB in defensive win shares in 2007.

Not a single Rockies hata on the hata thread but everyone's got it in for Tulo? I'm gutted BUT he had been having a mare so far this season. What can you do.

He can be kind of a jerk.

Tulo from the NLCS last year at Justin Upton upon being hit by Jeff Francis:

"Why would we hit you?" Tulowitzki barked. "You're a .200 hitter! We want you in the box! Shut up and go to the bag!"

Poetically, Tulo got plunked in the April 2008 series in AZ, to similar effect.

Dear Rockies,

Last year was brilliant, I'm really grateful, but would you mind getting your shit together and make something of this season?

Thanks and lots of love,
Mark

Uh thanks - two wins in a row! Let's not wait another 19 games for the next two, eh.

http://www.shop.jasongrilli.com/images/1190052580815-223303521.jpeg

Thought it was ironic until I was pointed to the source/shop.

Some dude called Reynolds is pitching for us on the weekend. Anyone know anything?

from BP:

"...2006 overall #2 draft pick Greg Reynolds, who's put up a 4.86 ERA with none-too-stellar peripherals at Colorado Springs"

Thanks - that doesn't seem too encouraging. #2 overall pick and he's crap.

Jeff Francis runs like a girl.

Are out ENTIRE first team injured right now? Jeez :/

Tell me all about these Colorado Rockists?

Where's your Messiah now? Nyaaah!

http://www.geocities.com/olandsguy2000/Images/wiggum.gif

I only managed to watch the first inning of last night's game and even a complete clueless noob like me knew that De La Rosa was going to get thumped. How embarrassing for all concerned (apart from Ryan Spilborghs).

Wow we're bad. Is this how it used to be before last, uh, September?

On this day last year, the Rockies were 23-27.

BRING IN GRILLI

Man we're bad. I couldn't sleep between 3am and 6am last night and watched the game, and we went from leading 8-3 at the top of the 6th (I think?) to losing 15-8. Hopeless.

Man we're amazing. 13-4 down and we manage to win 18-17. Wonderful.

GLENDON RUSCH

As Dr M mentioned elsewhere, they are six games back.

At this point last year, they were 4.5 games back, behind two teams that were 10 games over .500 and one that was seven games over.

8 out of the last 10 won - shame we couldn't do it last night vs them Pirates. Holliday doesn't seem too unsettled by the speculation as to his future. I'm just nervous that the rotation is going to spazz out again - I'd never even heard of the dude who pitched for us last night.

BP claims Rox not moving Holliday or Fuentes, maybe the likes of Torrealba.

The Rockies are 5.5 games out of first place.

At this point last year, they were 6.5 games out.

owner melting down

http://www.purplerow.com/2014/7/10/5889541/dick-monfort-rockies-owner-emails-denver-doesnt-deserve-team

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_26132113/rockies-owner-dick-monfort-issues-formal-apology-fans-offended

23-16 in first 39 games
23-55 in next 78 games

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/7/2/17524464/colorado-rockies-jon-gray-minor-leagues-sabermetric-cipher

a welcome examination of jon gray, who seems to strike out 11 guys and give up 8 runs in every game he has pitched this season

two articles about him on fangraphs today too. he got sent down to aaa despite being the rockies' opening day starter and probably their best pitcher

Kyle Freeland's home/road split defies logic:

Home: 2.27 ERA, 1.155 WHIP
Away: 3.44 ERA, 1.303 WHIP

first place!

Have passed StL for WC2, and back to half a game behind the Dodgers.

Back in first with an extra game to play, last series vs the Nats.

Dodgers are playing the Giants.

I want a game 163.

maybe holliday will touch the plate this time

and they're in

Jeff Bridich's MLB contract signings in free agency have been almost unfathomably incompetent. They make Battlefield: Earth and Pluto Nash look like investment triumphs by comparison. pic.twitter.com/1PtIJivocp

— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) May 30, 2019

A case in point occurred last season, when the team used baseball operations personnel to replace furloughed part-time clubhouse attendants, striking an unsettling chord with a number of those who were required to perform double duty…The use of front-office staffers as “clubbies,” part of the organization-wide effort to maximize an operation team officials already consider lean by major-league standards, lasted for the 30 home games during the 2020 regular season. Members of the analytics and player-development staffs might work their normal jobs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then assist in the clubhouse from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m.

“I’d be holding a pile of dirty jerseys and a coach would come up to me, ‘Can I get this data for this pitcher?’ (or) something like that,” one former member of the baseball operations department said. “I’d be just like, ‘I can’t do that right now.’”

https://theathletic.com/2467223/2021/03/22/communication-failures-poor-decisions-and-messy-breakups-how-it-all-went-wrong-for-the-colorado-rockies

https://defector.com/the-rockies-are-the-old-weird-kind-of-bad

(both paywalled)

Having a GM whose only qualification is having graduated from Harvard is the new market inefficiency.

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